Sentences with phrase «factory chimneys»

Like the smoke from factory chimneys, pesticides cross borders.

By ELISABETH GEAKE What position will Britain occupy in the coming information era where national wealth won't be determined by the number of factory chimneys or even the size of the City, but by how many trillions of bits are flying along fibre optic superhighways?

Sulphate pollution from power stations and factory chimneys produces aerosol particles in the atmosphere which encourage clouds to form.

Konrad imagines conscripts sent out at night to net the clouds and release them in the morning through factory chimneys to create the illusion of industry.

On at least two occasions after eating, Barney would insist on walking me down First Avenue to a spot where, looking towards the East River, a huge factory chimney rose up into the dark sky.

For this collaboration, Santigold takes on the role of an insatiable planetlike being, covered with flailing arms and tentacles, as well as spores that emit polluting smoke like factory chimneys.

But as the icecaps and glaciers melt, in response to ever greater greenhouse gas emissions from factory chimneys, power stations and vehicle exhausts, to drive up the planetary thermometer, more freshwater will flow into the oceans, which will anyway expand as temperatures rise.

A two - hour bus ride to the mysterious, exotic East End of Montreal (the all - Francophone area, into which they never ventured otherwise); where everything was interesting and new, from the dark plumes of smoke that snaked across the sky from factory chimneys to the stray newspapers and empty plastic bags that swished across the neglected streets to the staccato joual that echoed down the alleys as they drove by.

Before that it was the villain of the piece in the guise of the soot that poured from factory chimneys and turned cities black.

Accommodating 210 primary pupils alongside a nursery and a community room, the building takes elements from neighbouring red - brick houses, terraced streets and factory chimneys.

The design of both windows (with a factory chimney as their centre point) references the old Oostergasfabriek (a 19th century gas factory) which was a prominent feature in this part of Amsterdam.

Beneath it spreads a panorama of smoking factory chimneys, gloomy buildings and mean streets along which trudge an army of people with spindly limbs, big feet and hunched shoulders.

So the presumption has been that forests of Central America and the Amazon absorb at least some of the CO2 emitted from factory chimneys and car exhausts.

But these same forests absorb around 25 % of carbon emissions from factory chimneys, power stations and car exhausts; they play a vital role in stabilising local and regional weather, and they reduce the risk of drought.

Higher concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide — the greenhouse gas from car exhausts, forest fires and factory chimneys — are expected overall to aid crop and forest growth.

These, and the impact on the climate as ever more greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere from power stations, factory chimneys and exhaust pipes, will leave an indelible mark in the geological record.

The desired effect: global temperatures will be contained because the pollutants in the upper atmosphere will dim the sun's light and counteract the greenhouse effect of all the carbon dioxide pumped from power stations, vehicle exhausts, factory chimneys and burning forests.