Sentence examples for fresh waterways from inspiring English sources

The vast and complex web of salt and fresh waterways, partially submerged forests and precarious lives are at the heart of the novel, and in recent years Ghosh has become an outspoken commentator on climate change.

Levels of phosphates in fresh waterways can be much higher than normal because of contamination from municipal and domestic wastewater, whether you're hooked up to a sewer or have a septic system, says Helen Suh MacIntosh, an associate professor in environmental health at Harvard University.

Clearly, it's time to stop poisoning the soil, fresh waterways and killing our bees.

My esteemed colleague Dr Henk Tennekes has detailed the deleterious residual knock-on effects of using neonics in Western Europe including contaminating fresh waterways, killing trillions of soil organisms and rapidly diminishing biodiversity from meadow birds to raptors like goshawks.

Furthermore, my colleagues have irrefutably shown that using 1.6 billion pounds annually of a known bee-killing class of insecticides called neonicotinoids is not only contaminating fresh waterways and soils, it's diminishing Earth's biodiversity and placing our global food security in dire jeopardy.

He promised tax cuts; a new set of policies for northern Canada, aimed at buttressing a claim to sovereignty over Arctic waterways; fresh talks with the provinces on spending and regulation; new crime bills; Senate reform; and an environmental bill.

We were obsessed with anything that could keep our waterways clean, our air smelling fresh, and our streets trash-free.

But after four years of rejections, New York has finally found a place that is not just willing, but eager: Linden, N.J., a blue-collar town across the waterway from the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island.

The latter is accumulated by land subsidence from underground water depletion, water level fall caused by the erosion of riverbeds from a sediment supply decline attributed to the construction of watershed dams, artificial sand excavation, water level raise by engineering projects including land reclamation, deep waterway regulation, and fresh water reservoirs.

The low-lying coastal areas are exposed to an additional threat of inland flooding, from the intercoastal waterways, and contamination of fresh water supply by high tides and storm surges.

WHY Amidst astounding wilderness, the Amazon river contains as much as one fifth of the world's fresh water, and the rainforest and waterways are home to an incredible variety of flora and fauna species, all vying for space.