Sentence examples for environmental alarm from inspiring English sources

That makes the problem one of temporary clogs and cleanup, not of toxic material that rings environmental alarm bells.

Since then, sharply dwindling numbers of salmon and other river-dependent fish have sounded a much more widespread environmental alarm.

But environmental alarms have been screeching for so long that, like car alarms, they are now just an irritating background noise.

In many other parts of the country, recycling is in the doldrums — and in some cases backsliding — despite the sounding of environmental alarms about global warming and shrinking resources.

In the first week of April, after the "permissive dialing" period ended for most Suffolk recipients of the new area code, Electronix Systems Central Station Alarms Inc. in Huntington Station did not receive signals from some burglar alarms and environmental temperature alarms it monitors, said Fred Leonardo, the company's president.

At Nature Conservancy, the state research agency tasked with providing advice on environmental matters, alarm bells rang.

Environmental advocates, alarmed by the growth of the practice, pointed to New York's decision as the first ban by a state with significant natural-gas resources.

State environmental officials, alarmed by a surge in off-road riders and damages to natural areas, are expected to announce a policy that would ease the blanket ban against the vehicles on state lands.

Approval seemed imminent, despite opposition from environmental groups alarmed by the prospect of a GM salmon escaping.

Environmental organizations expressed alarm about this during the 1990's, after scientists reported that the number of birds crossing the Gulf of Mexico had decreased by half in two decades.

Environmental groups are alarmed about decreasing sturgeon stocks, though some caviar dealers say the numbers are not so clear.