• These include increasing social disparities and inequity, population growth, climate change, the deterioration and pollution of the environment, the unsustainable use of freshwater and depletion of ocean resources, as well as increasing cases of natural and human-made disasters.

    UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

  • Because much of the memorabilia will be produced in Asia and turned into garbage in America, it will increase the strains caused by Ameirca's worsening trade deficit as well as add to the pollution of the environment, both of which are undesirable in a mid-term election year.

    ECONOMIST: Stop that comet

  • For them, the growth question, the environment, pollution, the fate of the great globe itself, had become a cause of religious intensity, and the optimistic Mr Simon was a heretic to be put to the pyre.

    ECONOMIST: Julian Simon

  • And it includes the common goals of preserving the environment and reducing pollution.

    FORBES: EPA: Green Gone Wild

  • The reports said the proposal "would not give rise to any undue impacts with regard to pollution, the water environment, the amenity of nearby residential properties and businesses".

    BBC: Catfoot Lane crematorium project supported by planners

  • Moreover, it is economic growth that has provided the resources enabling us to dramatically reduce pollution and improve the environment, without trashing our standard of living.

    FORBES: Economic Growth, Not Redistribution, Most Benefits The Poor, Working People, And The Middle Class

  • It will streamline and simplify both the legislative framework and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency's regulation of activities which cause pollution at a local and national level.

    BBC: Scotland politics

  • While a certain amount of mercury in the environment is natural, a growing worldwide pollution, especially of our oceans, appears to be increasing the risk of high mercury levels in some of the fish we eat.

    CNN: Beware of shark meat, FDA warns

  • Northampton MPs Sally Keeble and Brian Binley have called for a full investigation by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) into the pollution of the town's water supply.

    BBC: Schools still shut over water bug

  • Installing modern and widely-available pollution control technologies can reduce more than 90% of the mercury pollution that is harming both children's health and our environment.

    WHITEHOUSE: Energy and Environment Latest News | The White House

  • Media coverage of local industrial pollution problems is encouraged by the government of China, to show that they care about the environment.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Indeed it is the profligacy and pollution of America's miracle economy that preoccupies Philip Shabecoff, for many years a writer on the environment for the New York Times.

    ECONOMIST: The environment

  • Andy Atkins, executive director of Friends of the Earth, said the road would cause more pollution, damage the environment and do little to boost the economy.

    BBC: Tree protester

  • Neal pleaded guilty personally to breaches of environmental rules and also pleaded guilty on behalf of his two companies to depositing waste likely to cause pollution to the environment or harm to human health.

    BBC: Gwent Levels waste dumping: David John Neal pleads guilty

  • Lawyer Alan Andrews, of environmental organisation ClientEarth, said an estimated 4, 300 Londoners now died each year as a result of air pollution (29, 000 UK-wide, according to the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs).

    BBC: News, London

  • An earlier version of Nocton's plan was opposed by Britain's Environment Agency (EA), which was worried about the risk of groundwater pollution from animal waste.

    ECONOMIST: Industrial dairy farming

  • He says industrial pollution, overfishing and a long history of rampant logging, legal and illegal, have done the real damage to the environment.

    CNN: POSTCARDS FROM THE BEACH

  • The paper, Air Pollution in London, produced by the Assembly's Health and Environment Committee, reports 8.3% of deaths in Westminster are attributable to man-made airborne particles.

    BBC: Nitrogen oxides

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