Sentences with phrase «effects of agricultural chemicals»

Interestingly, also negative effects of agricultural chemicals such as fertilisers and pesticides can be seen even at the coarse European scale and even more worrying is the fact that these negative effects are likely to be amplified with increasing temperatures as they can be expected from climate change.

Carson's 1962 book, Silent Spring, documented the pernicious effects of agricultural chemicals and served as a rallying point for the modern environmental movement.

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A leading ecologist with decades of experience in the effects of disturbance on ecosystems, Woodwell shows that diverse industrial activities — from nuclear power production to fossil - fuel burning to contemporary agricultural practices — are affecting the chemical processes that underpin all life on Earth.

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Zhang's adaptations of these classics use similar brushstrokes, but the rivers show the effects of industrial pollution and agricultural diversion: some have turned bright green or are covered with a sheen of chemicals, others have dried up entirely.