Sentences with phrase «as air pollution worsens»

As fossil fuel resources shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, oil, and natural gas, a new world energy economy is emerging.

The authors note that as fossil fuel reserves shrink, as air pollution worsens, and as concerns about climate instability cast a shadow over the future of coal, oil, and natural gas, a new world energy economy is emerging.

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The disastrous health effects they experience from pollution are a preview of what will happen everywhere as climate change becomes a routine fact of life, and as the planet gets hotter, carbon levels continue to climb and air quality progressively worsens.

Nissan Intelligent Mobility — building on global progress The world is facing serious challenges such as air pollution, worsening traffic jams and frequent accidents.

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

As with air pollution, evidence suggests that human - driven climate change will, on average, worsen eutrophication in freshwater and marine systems.

The researchers» findings suggest that population - congested parts of the Western United States are also expected to suffer worsening bouts of air pollution as the climate changes.

Despite clear evidence that the practice has negative impacts, such as increased seismic activity and air and groundwater pollution, certain to worsen as fracking becomes more widespread, the benefits of a ready flow of natural gas outweigh these «speculative» risks.

The study comes as corn - ethanol faces increasing criticism from environmentalists who say the increased corn production is worsening air and water pollution, depleting water supplies, driving record high food prices, and contributing to deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.