Sentences with phrase «environmental nightmare in»

«This was the biggest manmade health and environmental nightmare in the City of New York,» Oddo said.

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There are two tragedies in the Chevron case, writes Jennifer Wells: the environmental nightmare delivered upon the Huaorani people and the case itself.

An industry in the spotlight It is easy to condemn the plastic sea of greenhouses in Almería, Spain as an environmental nightmare.

Environmental microbiologist Jed Fuhrman of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles calls the situation a «nightmare» adding that his lab paused a 10 - year project of collecting monthly virus samples from the waters between Los Angeles and nearby Catalina Island.

But additional buildup of coal - to - natural - gas projects could also create an environmental nightmare because producing the gas will emit huge amounts of carbon dioxide and worsen the water crisis in China's arid western regions.

Darwin's Nightmare is many things, including an environmental cautionary tale, a critique of globalization and a portrait of a community, country and continent in deep crisis.

These soldiers — a psychologist (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a biologist (Natalie Portman), a paramedic (Gina Rodriguez), a physicist (Tessa Thompson) and an anthropologist (Tuva Novotny)-- enter what is about to become a living, breathing nightmare, an environmental disaster zone without scientific explanation, as filtered through the mind of «Ex Machina» director Alex Garland, adapting the first book in Jeff VanderMeer's «Southern Reach» trilogy.

He rushes into marrying a blond, beautiful environmental researcher named Lila (Malin Akerman) and then slowly - but - surely discovers on their honeymoon in Cabo, Mexico that his bride is a complete nightmare.

Inspired by lived experience, topics in her artwork include environmental illness, climate change, unemployment, the alienation of consumer culture, nuclear nightmares, body hate, cultural identity, visions for the future and global justice.

But he does expose the farce that is green energy today (for instance, our house is solar powered with a battery bank - but in 7 years when the batteries wear out, they will be an environmental landfill nightmare).

Such are the remarks in Reuters by the head of the Indonesia Palm Oil Growers Association that environmental NGOs pointing out the unmitigated climate change and biodiversity nightmare of plantation palm oil production might be pawns of Western business interests wanting to gain an advantage in the international biofuels market: Joefly Bahroeny said,

China has the biggest shale - gas reserves in the world and would dearly like to unleash an American - style fracking boom (which is its own kind of environmental nightmare, of course).

«Most Americans, including most New Yorkers, think of New York City as an ecological nightmare, a wasteland of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams, but in comparison with the rest of America it's a model of environmental responsibility.

Comparing the environmental nightmare of tar sands production to the human rights horror of the treatment of women in Saudi Arabia or the repression of dissent in Iran?