Sentence examples for environment has dropped from inspiring English sources
Since 2006, when Gallup started polling them on the subject, the proportion of Indians who say they are satisfied with their government's efforts to preserve the environment has dropped from 53% to 45%.
PCB levels in the environment have dropped since the manufacture and use of the compounds were curtailed, but so much electrical equipment containing PCBs is still in use that there is a continuing possibility of environmental damage.
Over the past 20 years, as the American and Canadian governments have attempted to compel industries to better control or completely discontinue use of these substances, their levels in the environment have dropped.
They contain more than 900 different species of plants collected from all over the world – mainly succulents, aloes, palm trees and cacti that can adapt to a desert environment where rainfall has dropped to 100mm a year over the last decade.
Told of the contents of today's Transportation Department report, Dan Becker, the energy and global warming director of the Sierra Club, said, "It's bad news for the environment that fuel economy has dropped, and it's now up to the president to raise fuel-economy standards that have languished for 12 years".
"I think the first applications will be in assisted living environments, and once the cost has dropped to the price of a car, you may then see them in homes".
We've reduced costs considerably because we're still profitable in an environment in which average sales price has dropped rather significantly.
A recent report by the Environment Agency said the UK's water vole population has dropped 90% since the late 1980s, making it the UK's fastest declining mammal.
Labour's Mary Creagh, shadow environment secretary, said: "I am delighted this out-of-touch government has dropped its stupid plans.
Crime has dropped sharply.
