Sentence examples for increasingly polluted from inspiring English sources
Hence, if current pollution exposure is an accurate predictor of future exposure to pollution, nongenetic transmission of pollution resistance to offspring is likely to help populations persist in an increasingly polluted environment.
Yet these sources are increasingly polluted.
The Crystal River is becoming increasingly polluted due to real estate developments on the Florida coast.
As for Lake Powell, it is increasingly polluted with oil, toxic chemicals and other unpleasant things.
At the same time, Seattleites wrestle with the problems that attend such growth, including congested roads and increasingly polluted skies.
Lake Paranoá became increasingly polluted until a water treatment program was inaugurated; by the late 1990s the lake was again serving as a popular recreational area.
Whether or not Alaska proves to be the "canary in the cage" – the geological shenanigans there heralding far worse to come – depends largely upon the degree to which we are successful in reducing the ballooning greenhouse gas burden arising from our civilisation's increasingly polluting activities, thereby keeping rising global temperatures to a couple of degrees centigrade at most.
Plastic waste is increasingly polluting the oceans and according to one estimation, by 2050 the oceans could contain more plastic than fish by weight.
Unrestrained striving for money and success may have made sense in a world of unlimited resources and opportunities, but on an increasingly crowded, polluted and interdependent planet, the human race may not be able to indulge the "cultural DNA" of a society that has Darwinian opportunism as a credo.
It was only during the Industrial Revolution that increasingly crowded and polluted European cities again took up the mantle of creating extensive drainage systems.
"In our increasingly crowded and polluted biosphere, man's future on earth depends as never before on an understanding of ecology," said Arthur W. Galston, the Eaton Professor of Botany.
