Sentences with phrase «on widespread pollution»

On view are large - scale drawings by Janet Culbertson revolving around the effects on widespread pollution and human interference on the environment.

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By examining rates of mortality and respiratory - related illnesses on both sides of the river, Greenstone's team identified a difference: life expectancies are lower and pollution concentrations are higher north of the Huai, where coal burning was widespread.

«There's a lot of research on how different kinds of environmental disasters — such as forest fires, hurricanes, air pollution, or heat waves — impact human health, but the most widespread natural disaster is drought,» said lead author Jesse Berman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale FE&S, in a press release.

As of now, humanity has no concrete plan for how to deal with the growing population of human beings on the planet, along with the massive resource depletion, widespread poverty and pollution.

In opting for renewables, India and China are responding to widespread local protests against air and water pollution and the human health impacts of continued reliance on fossil fuels.

«Instead, the poll uses a weak caricature of these widespread economic concerns, and asks voters if those concerns are worth «keeping parents in the dark about the true impact of pollution on their children.»

The IPCC reports predict that, if the temperature were to rise by 1 - 3C, there would be increased coral bleaching and widespread coral mortality unless corals could adapt or acclimatise, but while there is increasing evidence for climate change impacts on coral reefs the IPCC concluded that separating the impacts of climate change - related stresses from other stresses such as over-fishing and pollution was difficult.