Sentence examples for ecological threat from inspiring English sources

Whales have become the marine icon of ecological threat.

The E.P.A. scientists and others said the grass would probably not pose an ecological threat.

Such an airport is not only unnecessary but would pose an unacceptable ecological threat to two national parks -- the Everglades, which is a few miles from the base's western edge, and Biscayne National Park, only two miles to the east.

But the National Park Service views it as an "ecological threat," due to its ability to grow "rapidly in disturbed natural areas, including forests, stream banks and steep rocky slopes (see www.nps.gov /plants/alien).

The second of these was Fairfield Osborn, a man who retired young from Wall Street to lead the New York Zoological Society and who sounded the alarm of ecological threat in a book called "Our Plundered Planet".

Instead of responding to international criticism by tackling the problem, officials have tried to press treason charges against Alexander Nikitin, an ex-naval officer who denounced the ecological threat to the region through a Norway-based pressure group, Bellona.

And, as dire as the ecological threats are, he finds the nature-restoration field to be wide open.

But many E.P.A. staffers believe that Pruitt is giving priority to efforts that can be the basis for a before-and-after commercial, while ignoring bigger ecological threats.

The new analysis contradicts conclusions reached last spring by federal biologists trying to estimate the ecological threats posed by a drought that settled over the watershed.

Clearly, Congress is not leading the way in addressing the urgent issues of global climate disruption, biodiversity loss and so many other ecological threats.

The difficulty in coming to conclusions about corn and monarchs raises the question of how much scientists can be expected to learn about what researchers say are the other, much more complex ecological threats from biotech organisms.