WHEN the University of Texas was building a dormitory last year, an unusual sign hung nearby. "Do not discard or pour paint, mortar, trash or any construction material or debris on this tree," it declared. "The replacement value of this oak tree is $90,000. A recent tree "census" in New York City, conducted at the behest of [Michael Bloomberg], values the city's nearly 600,000 trees at $122 million. A rough breakdown: $11 million for filtering out air pollutants; $28 million saved in energy consumption (less need for air conditioners); $36 million for stemming storm-water runoff; and $53 million in "esthetic benefits."
... more than 13 million kilograms of pollutants into Lake Ontario that year. its biggest releases ...
... devastated landscape, these tailings ponds--water, clay, sand and bitumen--are the spawn of tar sand... in the region, and, eventually, of air pollutants and biodiversity. Whether that will be effective w...
... of water by a wide array of pollutants poses a health risk to Canadians is alarmist and n...
... would be measures for the reduction of pollutants (e.g., heavy metals) in the soil and water table a...
... within its own Arctic territory and waters, as well as in the Arctic region generally. . Thes... to food security, well-being due to pollutants entering the food chain, and the preservation of I...
... and control of pollution of drinking water. Monitoring environmental pollution; reviewing res... Monitoring Centre analysing pollutants in the air. b) The applicant stated she ...
... out of the precarious balance between water and ice. An increase in average annual temperature... convention on persistent organic pollutants and helping to bring the Arctic dimension of clima...
... as energy, land, building materials and water) and spits out a stream of wastes (greenhouse gasees, air pollutants, garbage) that is choking the planet's survival sy...
[Michelle Wright]'s predicament is a textbook example of the problems plaguing septic fields up and down the Red River corridor between Winnipeg and the lake. There, a residential boom combined with clay soils that don't drain properly have caused thousands of septic fields to fail, leaching pollutants into ditches and ultimately into Lake Winnipeg. [Reeve Steve Strang] said his rural municipality has tried to fix the problem by changing zoning rules to ban septic fields in some spots and ensuring lots are large enough to make the fields effective. And he's asked the province to let the RM's building inspectors take over the policing of septic fields instead of leaving it to Manitoba Conservation. Septic fields, the system of pipes that percolate a household's waste water under the law...
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