Sentences with phrase «by poisoned waters»

And here are just a few other «side effects» of mining on public lands in the West: cyanide spills; wildlife habitat destruction and fish kills caused by poisoned waters; and water pollution caused by acid mine drainage, which leaches potentially toxic heavy metals like lead, copper, and zinc from rocks.

Not exact matches

The feminist position springs not from the premise of our dignity, which applies to men as well as women and would preclude such partisan perversions of semantics, but from responding to the pernicious modem premise that sex is a drink of water with the equally wrongheaded premise that any politically incorrect act by a man is a glass of poison.

When human beings break their covenant with society by exploiting the labor of the worker and refusing to do anything about the social costs of production — i.e., poisoned air and waters — the covenant of creation is violated.

There are limits beyond which our water and air can be «safely» polluted by the poisons we put into them.

The frog had been punctured, poisoned and drained by a giant water beetle.

I'm trying not to use poison as they try to get outside to water and then when they die they could be eaten by other critters who then get poisoned.....

The are poisoning us and our children by recommending we drink water!

It's time to treat the earth as our shared home where no one will worry that their air, water, or land is being polluted by poison dug up from the ground,» Nixon said.

Don't sell us out and create a ghost state full of poisoned water where the only place you can live is with in the areas served by the NYC and Syracuse resevoirs

He spoke darkly of the early endorsements of Levine by elected officials and unions that had «poisoned the waters» against him.

«Retrograde actions by the Trump administration — backtracking on COP 21, deregulating Fossil Fuels, rolling back environmental protections — will lead to many Superstorms like Sandy, more contaminated water like Flint and Hoosick Falls, worsening Asthma and respiratory problems, further poisoning the lungs of our Bronx babies,» said Judy Sheridan - Gonzalez, the president of the New York State Nurses Associations.

Brown's new initiatives for lead in drinking water testing come one day after the Buffalo Common Council passed legislation aimed at addressing chipping and peeling lead paint hazards in rental units following two years of reporting by Investigative Post on Buffalo's serious lead poisoning problem.

The director of the service, Gilbert Grivault, says experiments showed that the plants were not suffering from any disease: they were being poisoned by the irrigation water.

Edwards explored this concept through the case studies of St. Joseph, Louisiana, where efforts to fix infrastructure that transported brown water saturated with iron, manganese, and lead were hindered by local corruption; Washington, D.C., where a covered - up water crisis led to increased miscarriage risks, fetal deaths, and lead poisoning in thousands of children; and Flint, Michigan, where a switch to a new water source without adding the anticorrosive agent orthophosphate to the water to protect pipes caused significant lead poisoning, an outbreak of the Legionella bacteria causing twelve deaths, and a breakdown of the water infrastructure.

The notion that cane toads can even poison water has been kicking around anecdotally for years but was recently dismissed by one research team as a «myth» because the toads» principal toxic compounds, bufadienolides, aren't water soluble.

Predictably, the cane toad tadpoles were unperturbed by the poison - laced water; and in control experiments with uncontaminated freshwater, all the animals survived just fine.

Today, India's waters are drying up and some of the water that remains is now poisoned by those same fertilizers.

Elisa Cabrera - Gusman (a graduate student with TEAM BUFO) found that water beetles and water bugs love to eat cane toad tadpoles, and are not affected by the toads» poison.

But by the time knowledge of dengue got to that Qin dynasty medical book, the Chinese were calling the illness «water poison,» and figured out that flying insects had something to do with it.

Regardless of what you choose to drink your water from or how you treat it beforehand, many of you are poisoning your bodies even worse simply by showering.

So far this week, I've done poison dart frog nails inspired by Manis & Makeovers, LOVE nails inspired by 25 Sweetpeas, a spacey water marble inspired by Copycat Claws, and dragon eye nails inspired by More Nail Polish.

The whole film consists of the heroes running around African desert whilst being shot at by various people really, there is a silly plot about trying to find a buried American civil war ironclad warship and also a plot about stopping most of the African water supply getting poisoned.

The film, directed by Bruce Beresford, was inspired by the ongoing Flint water crisis and bases itself more immediately on a February 2016 Time magazine report, «The Poisoning of an American City.»

The film centers on an unhinged oil baron who gets in a bruising standoff with a stubborn farmer after the water on his farm was poisoned by her company.

Based on true events and scripted by Rob McEveety, the film tells the story of an oil baron who gets into a destructive standoff with a stubborn farmer after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.

Through this initiative, students from six local public middle schools monitor the waters around Mount Desert Island by regularly testing phytoplankton for toxic species, particularly the most prevalent one, Alexandrium, which is known to trigger red tide events — toxic discoloration of ocean waters — that can result in poisoning shellfish.

He reveals the most daunting water issues we face today, among them the threat of flooding in China's Yellow River, where rising silt levels will prevent dykes from containing floodwaters; the impoverishment of Pakistan's Sindh, a once - fertile farming valley now destroyed by the 14 million tons of salt that the much - depleted Indus deposits annually on the land but can not remove; the disappearing Colorado River, whose reservoirs were once the lifeblood of seven states but which could dry up as soon as 2007; and the poisoned springs of Palestine and the Jordan River, where Israeli control of the water supply has only fed conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

Use salt water to induce vomiting only when instructed to do so by your veterinarian because salt can cause salt toxicosis (poisoning) in some pets.

Dr. Eric Dunayer of the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC), board certified by the American Board of Toxicology, Inc. (DABT) and having a special interest in xylitol toxicosis, specifically states in a risk assessment paper written about C.E.T. AQUADENT Drinking Water Additive: Based on published studies of xylitol toxicity in dogs and the APCC's experience, proper use of this product (according to label directions) should not present a risk of hypoglycemia in dogs.

The dog could suffer like this for hours or even days without food or water, others were killed by strangulation, bludgeoning, and even cyanide poisoning.

That is absolutely horrible that your dogs were poisoned by the tap water!

And be aware that the biggest risk for a dog at the beach is salt poisoning from the water, said Dr. Tina Wismer, medical director for the Animal Poison Control Center run by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Urbana, Ill..

In Balinese legend this spring water was created by Indra God when he fought with Maya Denawa the Giant king, and he helped his troops to survived from the poison that created by Maya Denawa.

Kefka, however, committed genocide by knowingly poisoning the water supply of Doma (which also killed a bunch of his own men), hurled his emperor off of a floating continent, and changed the face of the earth just because he felt like it.

One day the World Tree was hit by a meteor and it started dissolving into the waters, turning it to poison.

As the name suggests, our hero eats a lot and when he finds out that the donut - pizza production has been halted due to a poison water scandal caused by the evil witch Hysterica, his adventure to save Gluttington Kingdom begins.

The «Made in Flint» women's collection will go on show at New York's Queens Museum - a breath of glamour aimed at infusing hope into the impoverished city whose tap water became poisoned with lead in 2014 after cost - cutting by local authorities.

Some say that the Hopi people, native to North America, tell a vision of a time when mother earth, the land, air, waters, and creatures of all kinds were sick with poisons and ill treatment by people, the children of the white races, or more specifically the people who lived the cultures of those who displaced the native peoples of the Americas - not just Caucasians, would grow their hair long, wear beads, and come together with the children of all the nations to heal the earth.

Working across a variety of media, from resin, silicon, PVC print and iron to aluminium, bamboo wood and reflective fabric, the works are separated from the viewers by a river of poisoned water, which, recalling such mythological rivers as the Styx and the Acheron, situates them in a limbo.

In other shocking news, officials in Kuwait have announced that about 90 % of corals in their territorial waters are dead or dying; the first Hourglass Dolphin found in more than 150 years has washed up on the shores of New Zealand; Poison - laced mice are being airdropped into Guam to kill a rampant, invasive species of tree snake — there's a video, after the jump — , and in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean, an old oil - drilling rig has been turned into a hotel catering to snorkelers and scuba divers — the type of project proposed by Morris Architects for the (pre-BP spill) Gulf of Mexico.

We have a responsibility to the communities whose land, water, and air are being poisoned by fracking, and we're determined to make sure that this fracked gas pipeline does not move forward.

The report, «Closing the Floodgates: How the Coal Industry is Poisoning Our Water and How We Can Stop It,» was released by the Environmental Integrity Project, The Sierra Club, Clean Water Action, Earthjustice and Waterkeeper Alliance.

By bombing our mountains and poisoning our water, coal declared war on Appalachia.

On behalf of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth — I'm a member of — and for all those thousands of people, folks in the mountains who have lost loved ones due to the carcinogenic heavy metals blown out of the earth and poisoning our waters by this hellish, murderous extraction of coal called mountaintop removal — to represent them, I stand proudly in defiance of Governor Steven Beshear, McConnell, King Coal and all the King's lap puppies in the statehouses of Kentucky and West Virginia and those here in Washington, DC, who put corporate gains over people's lives.

Residents are worried about the proposed fracking poisoning the water in the Southern Hills aquifer - and that the local politicians have been bought off by the oil and gas industry.

Arrogance, by refusing to provide Congress or anyone else with the data underlying its policy determinations; ineptitude by polluting the Animas River in Colorado and San Juan River in New Mexico and fiddling while the drinking water in Flint poisoned its users.

With BP in the news for their lies about the safety of chemical dispersant used during the Gulf oil spill, it is hard not to think that Exxon is also lying to the public and their cleanup workers about the safety of the air and water poisoned by this spill.

A cursory list might include: pollution of air, water and soil from billions of tons of toxic waste; declining biological and cultural diversity from the harvesting of natural resources; regulations that merely limit the poisoning of people and the environment; production and use of materials so dangerous they will require constant, costly vigilance from future generations; prosperity measured by activity not legacy.

Could be caused by disruption of electricity supply, poisoning of water supply, or long severe drought combined with poor management of water storages.

In charge of writing a new rule to limit mercury poisoning of children by electric power plants, Holmstead embraced a watered - down rule that essentially was written by his old lobbying firm of Latham & Watkins.