Sentences with phrase «wrought by pollution»

LaToya Ruby Frazier's Self Portrait (United States Steel) focuses on the insidious, long - term damage wrought by pollution.

As the destruction wrought by pollution and human disregard for nature increases, churches are beginning to explore what their role is in protecting the environment.

Not exact matches

A price on carbon works because it creates a powerful incentive to cut pollution, encouraging people and businesses to save money by making cleaner choices like better insulating their homes or upgrading to more efficient equipment.»

This program will allow Waterkeeper to evaluate the types of litter found at restoration sites and begin management strategies by working with local companies, agencies, and other stakeholders on ways to reduce pollution and by working with schools to directly inform young people on how they can become better environmental stewards.

It is not always possible for a mom to raise her family around more trees, or avoid a work or home environment saturated by man - made pollution.

We can only tackle climate change, pollution and environmental degradation by working together and many of our closest allies in that struggle are in Europe.

A health department spokesman, who would only speak on background, said the state and EPA worked with St. Gobain and the village to quickly find a solution to pollution problem by providing bottled water and a water treatment system.

Beyond the climate change bill, though, we will need Labour and the Conservatives to be as brave as the Liberal Democrats in coming up with hard proposals for change: so far, only the Lib Dems have put forward firm plans for greener but not higher taxes, by switching the tax burden from good things like work, risk and effort to bad things like pollution.

The report, by the independent Authorities Budget Office, says the Cuomo Administration mishandled its attempts to use $ 500 million dollars in federal Clean Water monies to help finance work on the massive Tappan Zee Bridge reconstruction, including ignoring a warning letter from the EPA that the bridge project was an inappropriate use of the revolving loan fund, which is supposed to go to communities who need to clean up pollution.

Honeywell is working with the county and state DEC on another study, to be released by May, which he said will answer questions about pollution.

Panelist Brian Shmaefsky, a professor of environmental science at Lone Star College in Kingwood, Texas, described his work helping residents in Bangladesh get relief from water pollution created by tanneries without losing their jobs in those plants.

Modern diesel cars emit less pollution generally than cars that run on gasoline, says a new six - nation study published today in Scientific Reports whose groundwork was laid in part by an American chemist now working at Université de Montréal.

The pollution and its impact was described by 200 scientists working on the Indian Ocean Experiment, supplemented by new satellite data and computer modeling.

Working from his Biosphere data, Langdon calculates that the rise in CO2 pollution since 1850 is stunting the growth of today's tropical corals by 10 to 15 percent.

While China works to present itself for the Olympics next year, its majesty might be obscured, both literally and figuratively, by pollution.

Previous work in 2013 found that bees in the lab could be confused by the effects of diesel pollution.

«We don't think that air pollution from diesel vehicles is the main reason for this decline, but our latest work suggests that it may have a worse effect on the flower odours needed by bees than we initially thought.

The amount and quality of data about pollution varies widely by jurisdiction, as does the knowledge about how well various types of best management practices are working.

The NOAA researchers worked out the general direction that the pollution was coming from by monitoring winds, and in 2008, the team took advantage of new equipment and drove around the region, sampling the air in real time.

Using his earlier work as a base, he created an equation that accurately estimates the amount of sunlight blocked by different compositions of solar panel dust and pollution buildup.

Demonstrating the link between the dead zone and nutrients from the Mississippi River, this annual forecast continues to provide guidance to federal and state agencies as they work on the 11 implementation actions outlined by the Task Force in 2008 for mitigating nutrient pollution.

The Inter-EHSCC Working Group concluded that a potential for water and air pollution exists that might endanger public health and that the social fabric of communities could be affected by the rapid emergence of drilling operations.

Led by PNNL, the cross-functional research team, working under a measurements - to - modeling paradigm, investigated the ice nucleating properties for different dust samples affected by another kind of pollution.

The work showed that soot pollution could affect the people living there by altering the seasonal water supply.

Jacobson's work is original and important in showing that cooling by global dimming is less, and less important, than the various warming impacts of this pollution.

Other recent work has shown that Perú's gold mining has contributed to widespread mercury pollution affecting the entire food chain, including the food ingested by people throughout the region.

Meanwhile, coal production fell by a record 231Mtoe (5.9 %), as massive output declines continued in the US and China worked to reduce overcapacity and combat air pollution.

Reportedly inspired by the work of nature documentarian Sir David Attenborough, the queen hopes the changes at the royal estate will help «tackle the issue» of rampant plastic pollution.

Because of how antioxidants work — by adhering to damaging atoms called free radicals — they are thought to help combat cancer, intercept the damage of environmental pollution, and prevent age - related degenerative disease.

It's been estimated by the Environmental Working Group (EWG)(a non-profit environmental research organization dedicated to improving public health and protecting the environment by reducing pollution in air, water and food), that people can lower their pesticide exposure from produce by almost 90 percent by avoiding the «dirty dozen.»

«Environmental filmmakers continue to be hassled at the local level — Wang said he has been chased by dogs, threatened and punched — but their work apparently is being tolerated nationally because it aligns with the Communist Party leadership's new priority of fighting pollution.

When Blake arrives at his destination — a nightmarishly squalid settlement of festering meanness and pollution — he's told derisively by both Dickinson (Robert Mitchum), the blustering, hostile metal - works owner, and one of his henchmen (John Hurt) that they no longer need an accountant, having filled the position some time ago.

International and federal regulations have attempted to reduce the amount of air pollution generated by cruise ships, but there's still work to be done.

By working with HEART, Chris teaches children and adults about topics such as animal overpopulation, factory farms, puppy mills, poaching, child labor, and pollution.

What ensues is a tragic tale of love, a fight against pollution and the greed of consuming fossil fuels, and the existential crises wrought by massive amounts of drug dosing.

Documented actions and interventions such as Gordon Matta - Clark's (1943 - 78) BB gun window blow out, Gianni Motti's (b. 1958) appearance at the VIP box of the French Open wearing an Abu Ghraib - style hood, and Chris Burden's (b. 1946) TV hijack, will be seen alongside works by Dan Colen (b. 1979) and Nate Lowman (b. 1979) whose hijacked landscapes have become vehicles for the slanders and libels of a malignant culture of pollution, racial slurs, and tarnished reputations.

His most recent body of work, Tomorrow Land, contrasts the failures of modern technologies — American cities brought low by pollution and gentrification — with symbols of a better future that science and technology might bring.

The work of the artist, since the beginning of his career, has been dominated by themes such as violence, the relationship with media, drugs, mental illnesses, pop culture, consumerist compulsion, sex, pollution.

For example, developing works by purposely letting them get affected by rain, sun, pollution and other external factors.

By turning to locally - grown seaweed as a feedstock for biodegradable packaging, Evoware aims to boost the livelihoods of seaweed farmers while also working to reduce plastic waste in general, and to reduce ocean pollution in particular.

He joined the House Science Committee and accompanied climate scientists on research trips to Antarctica and the Great Barrier Reef, where he saw firsthand the damages wrought by rising carbon pollution and warming temperatures.

by pollution and I might have added overpopulation and others could add to the list I also had suggested a play about Chico Mendez that the political puppet theater I worked with produced and toured.

A revenue - neutral carbon tax is also beloved by economists, since it involves raising taxes on something our society wants less of — pollution — and using the money to lower taxes on the productive economic activities we want more of, such as paid work.

Her work shows cyclists are particularly vulnerable to the risks posed by air pollution — higher levels of breast and prostate cancer being among them.

The «Report» says that strict limits on «global warming» pollution can harness the power and creativity of capital markets, and that cap - and - trade would work by «turning market failure into market success».

Ignoring this nutrient enrichment has already led to the fact that EPA failed to implement the Clean Water Act (the second largest, federally funded, public works program) due to an incorrect applied test, which resulted in ignoring the pollution caused by nitrogenous (urine and protein) waste in sewage and still allows rivers to be used as giant urinals.

Sierra Club Canada works to deliver a healthier environment for a healthy population by working to protect both the quantity and quality of our water, reduce and divert waste, ensure the clean up of toxic sites, and fight the sources of pollution affecting air, water, and land.

They have enlisted the help of conservative lobby groups funded by the oil industry to attack US government scientists if they produce work seen as accepting too readily that pollution is an issue.

We work to safeguard global marine ecosystems by addressing the threats posed by plastic pollution, bycatch and commercial exploitation of whales, dolphins and porpoises.

Entanglement's work was part of an effort by the Environmental Defense Fund, a national advocacy group, and the nonprofit Air Alliance Houston to help the city of Houston assess environmental damage from Harvey, protect public health and hold companies accountable for their pollution.