Sentences with phrase «environmental havoc»

We face a choice between protecting our economy by protecting our environment — or allowing environmental havoc to create economic havoc.

However, that dilution doesn't negate the ongoing challenges caused by Colorado's abandoned mines, which tend to wreak environmental havoc on their own.

The oil is making land now, where it is expected to wreak environmental havoc on some three hundred miles of Gulf coastline, including the Mississippi Delta, home to 40 percent of U.S. wetlands and a national treasure of biodiversity.

I was witnessing one of the invasions of foreign animals to South Florida; this wave of foreigners were South American marine toads, which have caused environmental havoc to not only South Florida, but, famously, Australia.

In the 1970s, many coffee farmers switched to sun cultivation, and the higher - yield monocrop unleashed environmental havoc.

One of the 100 most invasive species in the world the Nile perch was introduced to East Africa's Lake Victoria in the 1950s, and has wreaked environmental havoc ever since.

But if they've been deemed smart enough to tackle these sophisticated scientific concepts, one wonders why Utah officials have so little faith in Beehive State tweens to understand a closely related — and certainly relevant — concept: how greenhouse gases trapped inside the Earth's atmosphere are warming the planet and wreaking environmental havoc upon it.

While these goals sound simple, achieving them in a way that actually benefits local communities without reaping environmental havoc is complicated.

A limited nuclear weapons exchange between Pakistan and India using their current arsenals could create a near - global ozone hole, triggering human health problems and wreaking environmental havoc for at least a decade, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The 2 - degree increase was selected as the uppermost limit before wreaking significant environmental havoc, although since then another study has shown that even 2 degrees will be disastrous.

Leading biofuels wreak environmental havoc (1/3/2008) Biofuels made from world's dominant energy crops — including corn, soy, and oil palm — may have worse environment impacts than conventional fossil fuels, reports a study published in the journal Science.

And now, San Francisco has banned its agencies from purchasing any Macs, given the environmental havoc Apple wrecks.

Photographer J. Henry Fair takes aerial shots of phosphorus mines and the environmental havoc they leave behind.

Industry experts respond that it is impossible for their wells to be creating all the environmental havoc their critics charge.

Blackened and hulking, these sculptures, which take their title from great 1568 painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, possess a striking immediacy that captures almost too perfectly the cascading international tensions, environmental havoc, failed revolutions and corrupted democracies that confront us daily.

I keep waiting for someone to write an article detailing where these trees come from and the environmental havoc the farming wreaks.

As another well - known Brit might say, it is time rein in a global SPECTRE that has wreaked too much human and environmental havoc.

The paper made the case for developing alternatives to fossil fuels, ensuring that economic development doesn't wreak environmental havoc and recognizing the importance of adaptation to climate change.

Sometimes the most sustainable way forward is backward, and considering the environmental havoc that plastics are creating in our world, perhaps it's time for the old - school method of making drinking straws from the stalks of rye to have its day in the sun again.

Found in an estimated 50 percent of items at the grocery store, from packaged foods to cleaning supplies, and also made popular by its «healthy saturated fat» profile, it's an oil that few food manufacturers can afford to give up, despite the environmental havoc wreaked by its production.