Growth in China helped boost incomes in many nations in 2004, but also drove up consumption of natural resources, increased the prices of raw materials, and pushed up pollution levels.
It is known that noise pollution from offshore industry, shipping and sonar can impair underwater communication, but can it really drive whales onto our beaches?
Although recent years have seen substantial reductions in noxious pollutants from individual motor vehicles, the number of such vehicles has been steadily increasing.
The other thing is that in some countries, the way that biofuel crops are grown and harvested still produces a great deal of pollution—really damaging to the atmosphere.
To avoid contamination, Wells in the Bengal Basin can be drilled into deep layers that were oxidized during the last ice age, in which the water is free of arsenic, Berg says.
Yet occurrences of food shortages and droughts are causing famine and distress in some areas, and industrial and agricultural by-products are polluting water supplies.
By the time we reach Pixar's 2008 animated feature "WALL-E, " the human race has left an over-polluted Earth and floats around space onboard a luxury cruise ship.
In January 1994 an oil barge ran aground off the coast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, leaking its cargo of 750000 gallons into the ocean while causing the pollution of the city's beaches.
To draft the policies and regulations on marine salvages, formulate emergency response plans and related regulations and systems for marine salvages and vessel pollution accidents;
Obscenities are oral pollution. The filthy words turn the campus environment from a peaceful well-educated one into squalid neighborhood of rude residents.