Sentences with phrase «toxic animal waste»

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However, more and more, whales and other sea animals are exposed to toxic waste in the water where they live and eat.

In healthy coral reef ecosystems, concentrations of ammonia — a toxic waste product produced by most animals — are close to zero.

Maybe that's why there's such higher diabetes risk, since more than 90 % of the persistent organic pollutants comes from animal foods — unless you work in a chemical factory, or stumble across some toxic waste.

Kidney failure in animals leads to a buildup of toxic waste in the blood stream that suppresses blood cell formation (uremia).

The major vein that does that (the pet's portal vein) normally leads to the animal's liver where these toxic wastes are detoxified or re-excreted into the pet's bile.

Among them are: to filter metabolic waste such as urea, mineral salts, and various toxins from circulating blood; to help regulate the volume of body fluids and the blood levels of important chemicals and hormones; to initiate the recirculation of purified blood throughout an animal's system; and to facilitate the excretion of the filtered - out waste products (mixed with water to form urine) before they reach toxic concentrations in the body.

If mixed, the waste will decompose into air pollution and the animal can eat toxic plastic waste.

Other ecological crises of great importance are not, however, dealt with here: species extinction (and loss of biological diversity in general), deforestation, desertification, soil degradation, acid rain, the proliferation of toxic wastes (including in living tissues), market - regulated biotechnology, urban congestion, population growth, and animal rights.

Plus, by doing what has already been done at zoos, pig farms, chicken farms, dog parks, and on trains, the country potentially reduces the toxic ground pollution of its 51 million tons of animal waste each year.

But Laxer explains that the U.S. actually poses serious security concerns for Canada; for guns, banned drugs, explosives, pornography, toxic waste, and some animals, plants and food products.

These reports encompass all the pollution categories covered by the site, including (when available) statistics on air and water pollutants, lead poisoning, toxic waste, and animal waste.