Sentences with phrase «ecological disaster zone»
Industrial and construction materials may contribute relatively little to greenhouse gas emissions and land use, but anyone who has ever seen (or lived next to) an open pit mine will know that they are ecological disaster zones in all sorts of other ways.
https://www.jasonhickel.org/ Not exact matches
«Generally, large scale burning is increasingly seen as an ecological disaster because it opens up the ground cover and greatly exposes small and medium vertebrates to predation by dingoes, foxes and feral cats,» Dr. Terry Dawson, who studies environmental physiology and arid zone mammals and birds, told TreeHugger.