Sentences with phrase «nearby streams»

Moving to dismantle former President Barack Obama's legacy on the environment and other issues, House Republicans approved a measure Wednesday that scuttles a regulation aimed at preventing coal mining debris from being dumped into nearby streams.

In some cases, they may be replaced by shrubs, raising the question of whether such a shift in vegetation type will leave more or less water in nearby streams.

A new analysis suggests that people who live in the shadow of melting glaciers and eat fish from nearby streams may be at risk from toxins banned years ago.

For every degree Fahrenheit of warming in the Salt Lake City region, the flow of nearby streams could decrease by an average of 3.8 percent annually, according to a recent report by the Western Water Assessment.

The researchers estimated the water stress that hydraulic fracturing might place on streams in the gas field based on water usage and timing for fracturing wells and data on nearby stream flow rates.

The mountain is first deforested (since no vegetation will survive anyway), the topsoil removed, and the «overburden» is dumped into neighboring valleys, damaging nearby streams and rivers.

Women who lived nearby streamed out of their houses and surrounded her like a net while she tore the air with her sorrow.

Many of our favourite campsites are surrounded by lush old growth rainforest and have nearby streams allowing for freshwater bathing.

To ensure water runoff and nearby streams stay clean, decision - makers have opted to use the biological waste purification method, which according to Ha'aretz, is a science that has been developing all over the world for many years now.

«Over time, alkaline salts and other contaminants from the coal residue and crushed rocks in these valley fills leach into nearby streams and rivers, degrading water quality and causing dramatic increases in salinity that are harmful to downstream ecosystems,» says Fabian Nippgen, assistant professor of ecosystem science and management at the University of Wyoming.

There is also Trout fishing in nearby streams and the four large dams, Lake Lyell, Oberon Dam, Ben Chiefly Dam and Lake Wallace, all within about 30 minutes drive.

But, as scientists report in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology, «fracking» operations could have impacts on water quantity because they are withdrawing these large amounts of water from nearby streams, which house aquatic ecosystems and are used by people for drinking and recreation.

As much as I wanted to give that a go, local pools were long closed when my test car was delivered, and all nearby streams frozen solid.

Surface water is readily available in most of Sierra Leone, particularly in rainy season, so many people here were collecting water directly from nearby streams or stagnant ponds.

In 1428, at Papal command, Wyclif's remains were dug up and burned, and the ashes were thrown into a nearby stream.

This water is usually released, untreated, into nearby streams, where its acidity kills aquatic life and the breakdown of its organic material not only fosters the production of bacteria that are harmful to humans but also starves aquatic fauna of oxygen.

The fungicide explosion prompted Kathryn Kuivila, an environmental organic chemist with the U.S. Geological Survey, to see if fungicides were escaping farms and winding up in nearby streams.

The records showed that precipitation and temperature patterns had hardly fluctuated during the period, meaning that the amount of water flowing into the lake from nearby streams is likely the same today as it was in 1847.

As fertilizer used on Midwestern corn and soybeans runs off fields and into nearby streams, it ends up, eventually, in the Mississippi River.

We've seen two bears, had our potted plants attacked by deranged birds, watched fish swimming in a nearby stream, and laughed at chipmunks and squirrels in high - speed chases up and down trees.

Determined to take Semi-Happy Valley for everything it's worth, Snidely sends Dudley in search of vampires hiding in the woods, and, while he's away, plants gold nuggets in a nearby stream.

Later, the same EPA guy is taking samples from a nearby stream when a medical officer, played perfectly by Forrest Whitaker, is shot from the same angle, except now we see nothing but the bluest of skies above his head, reminding us of the basic fragility and powerlessness of these characters, whose bodies are about to be taken over and replaced by a parasitic human - alien hybrid.

One science teacher had students work with the local water board to sample water purity in a nearby stream.

Our environmental science class has the ability to record local weather and conditions in a nearby stream.

The soldiers filled the pot with water from a nearby stream, built a fire in the middle of the village, and set the pot on to boil.

Students who have used EcoMOBILE report that they notice intricacies in their own neighborhood ecosystems, such as pollution in a nearby stream, that they wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

The lodge is built from native stones of the canyon, and a nearby stream lets visitors cool off after a day of hiking.

Some of the pavilions seem to float on water diverted from a nearby stream.

«We have adopted a nearby stream, Third Fork Creek, and are organizing creek clean up events 2 - 4 times a year in coordination with the city of Durham, as well as performing stream monitoring and water quality testing.

It may decide to conserve water together, or to remove water - hogging trees from a nearby stream.

The coal companies cited in the notice letter are all operating in the eastern part of Kentucky under state - issued permits that allow them to discharge limited amounts of pollutants into nearby streams and rivers.

He tied climate science to the imperative of ending our dependence on coal — thus adding another dimension of leadership and support to Appalachian residents who are confronted with the practice of blowing up mountains and dumping the debris into nearby streams and valleys to reach seams of coal.

In December 2008, the Bush Administration approved a final rule that made it easier for coal companies to dump rock and other mine waste from mountaintop removal mining operations into nearby streams and valleys.

Though these approaches are not as «natural» as other techniques, they still protect the natural water cycle by slowing or infiltrating precipitation rather than sending it directly into storm sewers or nearby streams.

It may be hard to imagine that before 1970, a factory could spew black clouds of toxic into the air or dump tons of toxic waste into a nearby stream, and that was perfectly legal.

Defending and settling a federal court class action involving persistent chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminating 20 miles of a nearby stream.

That way if a nearby stream was to overflow and the water comes into your home, you can make sure you can replace the damaged belongings.