Sentences with phrase «choked by pollution»

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In recent years, the fight against ocean plastic pollution has gone from a preoccupation of marine scientists to a movement embraced by everyone from schoolchildren to Queen Elizabeth II, galvanized by images of trash - strewn seas and sea turtles choking on plastic straws and other consumer castaways.

The nation has already overtaken the U.S. as the world's largest greenhouse gas emitter largely because of the more than three billion metric tons of coal it burns annually — and several thousand miners die each year digging up the dirty black rock to feed China's energy needs, not to mention the health toll taken by choking air pollution caused by coal burning in the Middle Kingdom, estimated by the World Bank to cost the country $ 100 billion a year in medical care.

During the 19th century many amateur botanists collected ferns and grew them in glass Wardian cases, invented by one Nathaniel Ward in the 1820s to maintain humidity and keep out the pollution that had choked ferns in his garden.

So pollution filled, choked by all the endless stream of cars passing by.

For those who have lived in China recently, choking on the world's most notorious coal - produced pollution, the gauze invokes the frail barrier offered by masks against the toxins.

The photographer writes, «These white fairy terns are one of the most friendly and magical birds on the island and represent the natural beauty that is being choked by the plastic pollution washing up on Midway.»

China's biggest cities are choking on smog and air pollution emitted by nearby coal plants, and residents are fed up....

There is every chance that more efficient vehicles and limits to future fuel consumption in Asia's megacities, already choked by traffic and pollution will not result in increased petroleum use.