Sentences with phrase «threatened by oil spills»

Scripps's murrelet is mainly threatened by oil spills, as much of its population lives near the busy shipping lanes connecting Los Angeles to other ports.

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The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has threatened to turn into a geopolitical spat, with British politicians increasingly irritated by President Obama's tough rhetoric.

That's the advice of coastal ecologists and geologists to those who are planning the clean - up of the Gulf ecosystems threatened by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

There are immediate reasons to study the vocal patterns of cetaceans: these marine mammals are threatened by human activities through competition for fishery resources, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with vessels, exposure to pollutants and oil spills and, ultimately, shrinking habitats due to anthropogenic climate change.

«Disastrous events like this oil spill can easily tip the scale,» Mansur says, especially by threatening top predators such as the Sundarbans tigers, crocodiles, and dolphins.

In addition to acting and producing, Danson is an environmental activist, founding the American Oceans Campaign (AOC) in 1987 to alert Americans to the life - threatening hazards created by oil spills, off - shore development, toxic wastes, sewage pollution and other ocean abuses.

It is threatened by predators introduced to its breeding colonies and by oil spills [citation needed].

Indigenous peoples of the Arctic are among the first that are being forced to relocate entire villages and whose food security is threatened by not only the negative impacts of climate change but by the pollution caused by oil, natural gas spills, and mining operations in our critical ecosystems.

The impact of the BP oil spill on birds seems to be in the spotlight today... The American Bird Conservancy released a map of bird habitat threatened by oil and Yale e360 has a good interview with

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Why is the only reporting from the scene of this oil spill during weather that threatens to severely contaminate the main body of Lake Conway being done by a couple volunteer journalists riding in the back of a pick up truck in the rain using an iPhone with limited battery?

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The dwarf seahorse, which resides in seagrass located throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Florida and the Caribbean, is threatened with extinction from pollution caused by the Gulf oil spill disaster.