Sentences with phrase «polluted waters more»

New class of reusable carbon nanotubes could clean polluted waters more effectively than silicon gels and activated carbon

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If the temperature of the water I'm showering in is the temperature of the water my building heats to make hot water, I'm polluting more than I thought when I take a hot shower.

Since money can be saved by mass production, huge hog farms now raise their hogs in miserable condition, meanwhile massively polluting the land and water and bankrupting farmers who try to continue more natural production methods.

Yes it's a far stretch from UFO's to an enlightened civilization, but those who are visiting are surely more sane than this planet of nations competing for resources, polluting the water and land while still using fossil fuels, fighting in «God's» name...

Erosion and the loss of soil fertility cause further complications, and as yields decline, more and more petrochemical fertilizers are applied to the soil, finding their way into already polluted water supplies.

What is required for this to happen, more than anything else, Is not a technology revolution, but a mindset evolution away from old technology that has passed its use - by date, (such as extensive, polluting and smelly lagoons) and outdated attitudes that treat waste water as a cost or even place in which to hide process problems, rather than a resource for recycling and generation of green energy.

This scenario is even more troubling from a food safety perspective: In addition to potential hygiene violations in Chinese slaughtering and processing plants, chickens raised on China's polluted soil, air and water could well be adversely affected by that nation's severe environmental degradation.

ALBANY — The state will declare the polluted water of Hoosick Falls a Superfund site, conduct a health risk analysis of its residents and test more water wells to address toxic chemicals that have leached into a town water well, Cuomo administration officials announced alongside local elected leaders during a press conference Wednesday.

«Sadly, this $ 511 million... loan is really nothing more than a «raid» in the classic style of «Rob Peter, To Pay Paul» with the caveat that Peter's water will now be more polluted,» Perkins wrote.

Officials said the typical level of the toxic chemical found in the blood samples of more than 2,000 Rensselaer County residents is about 11 times higher than the national average, but well below levels detected in other areas of the nation where the contaminant has also polluted public water supplies.

The state will declare the polluted water of Hoosick Falls a Superfund site, conduct a health risk analysis of its residents and test more water wells to address toxic chemicals that have leached into a town water well.

Rochman wants to see whether fish caught in highly polluted areas of the gyres have more plastic in their guts and higher levels of POPs than those taken from less polluted waters.

• ENVIRONMENT More than 6,000 chemicals pollute U.S. drinking water.

Polluted waters may be driving more sea snakes to go all black, a sign of an evolutionary phenomenon called industrial melanism, Susan Milius reported in «Polluted reefs may favor dark snakes» (SN: 9/16/17, p. 14).

A 2012 ProPublica investigation of more than 700,000 injection wells across the country found that wells were often poorly regulated and experienced high rates of failure, outcomes that were likely polluting underground water supplies that are supposed to be protected by federal law.

The alga in green is present in clean environments, while the orange one lives in more polluted water.

To heat that boiler, the damp, crumbly brown coal known as lignite — which is even more polluting than the harder black anthracite variety — burns in the presence of pure oxygen, a process known as oxyfuel, releasing as waste both water vapor and that more notorious greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2).

Growing concern over polluted air and water in China and India is more immediate.

Air quality in cities is of increasing concern to China's stability - obsessed leaders, anxious to douse potential unrest as more affluent citizens turn against a growth - at - all - costs economic model that has polluted much of the country's air, water and soil.

More recent critics of the animals» deployment to the Washington base were concerned about how the cold waters might affect the dolphins and about both dolphin and sea lions» waste polluting the shellfish harvest areas nearby.

A polluted sky has many more aerosols than a clean sky — think haze and smog — and that means less water for each seed.

The study authors emphasize that this effect could extend to potentially «devastating» economic consequences for cities that will need to pay more to cool buildings, clean polluted air, and ensure clean drinking water.

Canadian researchers have developed a new method of removing the contaminants from polluted oil sands production water using just sunlight and nanoparticles, an approach they say will prove more effective and cheaper than existing methods.

Now, you can find a Source in eight countries, from poor, underserved regions like Guayaquil, Ecuador, where water cost more than half a family's income, to highly polluted areas like Mexico City and Jakarta.

The Asians eat meat, seafood, grain including rice, bean, nut, vegetable, legume and breath air and drink water 100 times more polluted than ours and yet they live very long and healthy.

We need our super herbs to protect our health more than ever in this era of toxins polluting our air, water and food!

However having a ready supply of pure and abundant water is fast becoming a thing of the past as more and more lakes, rivers and water bodies are getting polluted.

Mario games are never about the story, and all this polluted island clean - up business is little more than a reason to introduce the new water - based mechanics.

Food production can be made far more fruitful and less wasteful of land and water, more respectful of peasants and indigenous people and less polluting.

Native New Yorkers know not to swim on Coney Island after a rain because of the sewage polluted storm water runoff, but if more people put out plants and grow green roofs, that might change.

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

Francis said that wealthy nations and multinational corporations that use foreign debt as a way to control poorer countries, while exploiting their natural resources and polluting their land and water, owe them an «ecological debt» by limiting consumption of fossil fuels and assisting them in more sustainable development.

Fresh drinking water could become more and more scarce as polluted floodwater runoff contaminates rivers, lakes, and reservoirs.

But the fact is China's desperate need for more domestically - produced power that doesn't further degrade their dwindling water supplies or pollute their air — which will give your eyes and lungs a good burn on a stagnant day — is a major catalyst for renewable energy growth in the Middle Kingdom.

Fresh drinking water could become more and more scarce as drought and warming combine to dry up reservoirs, rivers, and groundwater — or polluted floodwater runoff contaminates what they do have to offer.

A 2010 report by the UN Environment Program said that more people now die from contaminated and polluted water than from all forms of violence including wars.

Now's the time to be investing in more clean energy like solar and wind power, which won't pollute our air and water or fry our planet.

Fresh drinking water could become more and more scarce as polluted floodwater runoff contaminates rivers, lakes, and reservoirs — or drought and warming combine to simply dry it all up.

Renewable energy (which includes solar, wind, water, hydro, tidal and wave, geothermal, ocean thermal, ocean currents, biomass, biofuel) can produce electricity more than enough to power our current and future lifestyle, without polluting the planet and causing global warming.

The massive, open - pit mine would destroy 1,660 acres of untouched forestland in order to extract more than 70 million tons of bauxite, polluting critical water sources in the process.

Among the potential problems was the chance that the deeper water could be more acidic and polluted, and that by circulating water, the fans would pump warmer water onto deeper reefs and pose problems for them.

If the current drought persists, water flowing to drive hydroelectric turbines will continue to shrink and expensive and polluting natural gas will become even more of a factor in the electricity production game.

What it really does is streamline access to oil, gas, and coal under public lands and federally - controlled ocean waters for the fossil fuel industry — and condemns Americans to more spills, climate - polluting emissions, and health problems.

Shrimp farmers clear cut vast coastal fringes of mangroves, - crucial breeding grounds for fish - to create ponds... As rotting shrimp and food pollute the water they move on and hack down more trees and make more ponds» They also pump them full of antibiotics.

With the exception of salmon, they also tend to have the worst environmental impacts, because producing them requires the most resources - mainly chemical fertilizer, feed, fuel, pesticides and water - and pound for pound, they generate more polluting manure.

Hank, it appears as if methane created in bio-reactors is less energy incentive and more energy efficient than driving around in the country side and polluting ground and drinking water or pay people for drilling rights.

It may lead to more polluted Arctic waters as currents shift.

So far, six households in the neighborhood are engaged in the experiment to live more consciously through a variety of low (er)- tech practices such as organic gardening, rainwater harvesting, greywater recycling, renewable energy generation and even cleaning polluted well water with a living machine.

For developing countries, renewable energy is faster, cheaper, more decentralised and has the benefit of not polluting the air, water or land, she said.

Our families can't afford more dirty fuels like gas and coal that pollute our air and water, disrupt the climate and lead to more frequent and increasingly deadly extreme weather events....