Sentences with phrase «killed hundreds of fish»

True, the timing of the die - off was suspicious — malathion has been known to kill crustaceans, and the spraying had already killed hundreds of fish on Staten Island.

Not exact matches

Each year, hundreds of dolphins are herded into a cove near the fishing village of Taiji in south - east Japan, and killed with knives and spears.

Commercial fishing boats also kill tens of thousands of albatrosses and hundreds of thousands of other seabirds, mostly by longline fishing.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates that hundreds of millions of birds may be killed each year in the United States by anthropogenic activities (power lines, communication towers, poisoning, etc).

But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).

But as one panel asked, how quickly can the United States end the process that allows hundreds of aging power plants from sucking up enormous amounts of water that kill billions of fish annually?

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