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North America > United States > Environment

AMERICAN ENVIRONMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Areas under protection 3,481 [8th of 146]
Carbon efficiency 1.77 CO2 emissions/$ GDP [42nd of 141]
CO2 Emissions 5,762,050 [1st of 178]
Coral reefs > Area 3,770 sq km [5th of 28]
Ecological footprint 12.22 [2nd of 141]
Endangered species protection 87.5% [39th of 141]
Known breeding bird species 508 [8th of 146]
Known mammal species 428 [4th of 145]
Marine fish catch 3,329,230 tons [7th of 141]
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide from fossil fuels 2000 1,571 [1st of 25]
Pollution > Carbon Dioxide per capita 20 [1st of 29]
Pollution > Nuclear waste 2,100 [1st of 16]
Pollution > Nuclear waste per capita 8 [8th of 16]
Protected area 13.4 [26th of 147]
Threatened species > Mammal 35 [16th of 160]
Water > Availability 7.09 thousand cubic metres [47th of 141]
Water > Freshwater pollution 1.14 tons/cubic km [30th of 69]
Water > Phosphorus concentration 0.08 mls/litre [127th of 141]
Wetlands of intl importance > Area 1,190 thousand hectares [15th of 112]
Wildness 35.89% [32nd of 141]

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SOURCES: World Resources Institute; Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center; World Resources Institute. 2003. Carbon Emissions from energy use and cement manufacturing, 1850 to 2000. Available on-line through the Climate Analysis Indicators Tool (CAIT) at Washington, DC: World Resources Institute; World Atlas of Coral Reefs accessible via United Nations Environment Program; World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Living Planet Report 2000, Gland, Switzerland: 2000, and Redefining Progress.; Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Report on National Reports Required Under Article VIII, Paragraph 7(a), of the Convention, Eleventh Meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Gigiri, Kenya, April 2000; FAOSTAT on-line database; U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Annual, 2002, and International Energy Outlook, 2001; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris, France, OECD Environmental Data Compendium; Jacaranda Atlas; Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGAP 2.1B, 2001 via ciesin.org; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001 (for BOD emissions)and Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, WaterGap 2.1, 2000 (for data on waterquantity). via ciesin.org; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Global Environmental Monitoring System/Water Quality Monitoring System, with data for an additional 29 countries from Prescott-Allen, R. The Well being of Nations, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001; Wild Areas Project (WAP), joint Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and CIESIN project to map the lastwild places on the earth's surface. via ciesin.org

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: United States, United States of America, usa, America, The United States, u.s.

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