Sentences with phrase «many lakes and rivers»

The tiny beads seep out of water - treatment systems into lakes and rivers, choking fish and marine life that ingest it.

Laws related to drinking water, elections, financial transparency, matrimonial property, land surrenders and the removal of protections for lakes and rivers were passed in spite of strong opposition by First Nations.

On one hand, it confirms how much Canadians value our water and how integral our lakes and rivers are to our national identity; on the other, it reveals a troubling carelessness with a resource Canadians still consider unlimited in its abundance...

VANCOUVER — New Democrats are calling on the B.C. Liberal government to protect the health of our oceans, lakes and rivers by banning the sale of products containing plastic microbeads.

That over 99 % of Canada's lakes and rivers are no longer subject to federal oversight, and that some 3,000 environmental assessments were abruptly cancelled last year by the Conservatives?

PSAC members working for Environment Canada, for example, inspect lakes and rivers and watersheds and habitats, among a multitude of other tasks — diligently and in the public interest.

Neither can the lakes and rivers and bays and streams and creeks flowing from the vast oceanic sea of Nothingness be denied.

Are you implying that since the flood salinity levels in lakes and rivers gradually decreased allowing adequate time for adaptation?

The scientists found that an east wind of 63 mph blowing for 12 hours would have driven the shallow waters back, both into the lake and the river channel.

... and, it's no one person or post or thing, and its not that I have all the answers, or that I live my beliefs the way that I aspire to... I just see lots of really great - hearted people tying themselves in knots, feeling shame and guilt and depression and anger... and at times it seems it is because they are trying to differentiate between seas and lakes and rivers and oceans... instead of just going for a swim.

Fish live in lakes and rivers.

I want people to talk about the great number of fish I caught, and the size of the monsters I pulled from lakes and rivers all over the world.

Already more than 16,000 lakes and rivers within Canada have had their protected status removed in order to facilitate oil exploration and resource mining on First Nations land.

I have just wondered what John and Jesus would have done if they had arrived in a climate like mine where lakes and rivers are frozen half the year... or a culture like we have where identifying with an ideology or movement typically means you buy a t - shirt with a catchy saying, or just dress a certain way.

They can unite in measures that prevent ecological degradation — such as deforestation, pollution of lakes and rivers, and so on.

I really love to go swimming at the lakes and rivers around Charlottesville.

On lakes and rivers across the country, fleets of skinny boats will skitter over the water like giant insects, their wooden legs moving in unison.

Already known for its world - class fishing, the Sundial Bridge and water recreation on lakes and rivers, Redding is quickly becoming a cyclist's paradise.

Shasta Lake, Whiskeytown Lake, and the Sacramento River and alpine lakes and rivers surrounding us the area for endless fun.

It has been outfitting San Franciscans for the sea (and more recently the lakes and rivers) since 1885.

Or maybe just exploring scenic lakes and rivers with your camera — capturing each adventure forever.

From the time I was four years old, my father and my grandfather and my uncles would journey into the wilds of Maine, waking me well before sunrise, to climb on snowmobiles and travel through the woods out across the frozen lakes and rivers.

Celebrate with us the unbelievable beauty living in our oceans, lakes and rivers in a new special exhibit at Shedd Aquarium: Underwater Beauty, opening May 25.

Celebrate with us the unbelievable beauty living in our oceans, lakes and rivers in a new special exhibit at Shedd Aquarium: Underwater Beauty.

Burke and other supporters compared the BPA ban to a city ordinance adopted in the early 1970s outlawing phosphate detergents, which had been blamed for foul - smelling algae blooms that choked lakes and rivers.

For rural and remote living children, lakes and rivers serve as transportation routes as well as sources of recreation.

With its new Shedd the straw campaign, Shedd hopes to inspire Chicagoans to remove single - use plastic straws from their everyday life to reduce the amount of plastic pollution that enters our oceans, lakes and rivers.

With its new SheddTheStraw campaign, Shedd hopes to inspire Chicagoans to remove single - use plastic straws from their everyday life to reduce the amount of plastic pollution that enters our oceans, lakes and rivers.

Using only 100 % recyclable materials, students from preschool to high school created the wreaths after learning how recycling or using reusable products can help protect our planet's oceans, lakes and rivers from the harms of plastic pollution.

We draw hopscotch and lakes and rivers.

Its most important function is to protect and reclaim the waters of our lake and river system.

The beads are a common ingredient in cosmetics and personal care products and are a leading cause of plastic pollution in lakes and rivers.

«This money will help safeguard lakes and rivers in every corner of this state, protect local ecosystems, and ensure that visitors can experience New York's natural beauty and wonders for years to come.»

OK, we don't have the Pacific Ocean, but the lake and the river could be just as magnificent.

It's a problem that plagues many lakes and rivers in central New York.

From Louisiana and Missouri through the American heartland and all the way north to Minnesota, Asian carp are invading freshwater lakes and rivers, disrupting ecosystems as they go.

It's made for smaller bodies of water, like lakes and rivers that don't have rapids.

Depth may not be as much of an issue for you if you tend to fish in shallow waters, but if you fish in the ocean or deep lakes and rivers, having a maximum depth of 100 meters or more can be crucial to finding your next big catch.

The properties of the climate system include not just familiar concepts of averages of temperature, precipitation, and so on but also the state of the ocean and the cryosphere (sea ice, the great ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers, snow, frozen ground, and ice on lakes and rivers).

The year 2015 was the warmest on record for Oregon, resulting in low snowpacks and less water in many lakes and rivers.

Grasslands, trees, lakes and rivers once covered North Africa's now arid, unforgiving landscape.

RAIN OUT Rainier conditions than previously thought turned the Sahara Desert into grasslands, lakes and rivers from 11,000 to 5,000 years ago, a new study finds.

From lakes and rivers to enormous aquifers, the supply of fresh water is critical to all aspects of life, including our agricultural, industrial and recreational activities.

Join researchers seeking signs of life in one of the hundreds of lakes and rivers that lurk beneath Antarctica's expansive ice sheet.

Implementing the framework's steps and establishing a common understanding of the lake and river system depends on widely shared, reliable data and analysis, the report says.

«Their position seems to be, the lakes and rivers are for recreation, not a source of food,» Powell said.

To guide choices about the lake and river system, the Academies» new report recommends a decision framework grounded in scientific and engineering information, and the use of decision analysis techniques to account for multiple objectives and the values of interested and affected parties.

The process should include broader participation by groups and parties whose safety, livelihoods, and quality of life are affected by decisions about the lake and river system, the report says.

NASA's Cassini - Huygens mission showed that Titan has lakes and rivers of liquid ethane and methane, and may have chemistry that is conducive to life.

Hundreds of millions of years ago a humble fish swam in the lakes and rivers of the supercontinent Gondwana.