Sentence examples for pernicious pollution from inspiring English sources

Chennai, in the 1980s, had the most envied beach (Marina) in Asia; unfortunately, years of neglect and pernicious pollution ruined a great asset and left Chennai a coastal town without a beach.

Above all, Chinese leaders are focused on steadily steering the economy, the world's second-largest, as the country grapples with thorny problems like industrial overcapacity, rapid debt build-up, pernicious pollution and a more uncertain global trade climate with potentially rising protectionism in Trump's America.

Professor David Fowler from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Midlothian told BBC News that the role of ground level ozone was particularly pernicious as ozone pollution was slowing the growth of plants which would otherwise be absorbing CO2 emissions.

Prior studies (Post and Obirih-Opareh 2002; Oteng-Ababio et al. 2013) have shown that waste management remains the single largest item on the assemblies' budget yet the most pernicious local pollutant (uncollected waste remains the leading contributor to local flooding and pollution).

The government recently reversed course and began to track the most pernicious measure of urban air pollution -- particulates 2.5 microns in diameter or less, or PM 2.5.

There is growing recognition of the pernicious effects the consumption of fossil fuels creates through air pollution.

Other researchers think the presence of the pollution has an effect within individual monsoon seasons, too, changing patterns of rainfall.Black carbon has particularly pernicious effects on frozen regions.

"Pernicious quicksand!

Domestic abuse is pernicious.

That inertia is pernicious.

"It became pernicious".