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Penguin Appeal
It is vital that Falklands Conservation, the only specialist conservation organisation operating in the region, can continue to campaign for appropriate environmental protection, to monitor the effects of potentially harmful activities and to press for such corrective action as may be necessary. With Falklands Conservation looking after their interests, the decrease in penguin populations may be ...
www.falklandsconservation.com

The Regional Impacts of Climate Change
Downing (1992, 1996) suggests that vulnerability is an aggregate measure of human welfare that integrates environmental, social, economic, and political exposure to a range of potentially harmful perturbations or threats. Vulnerability varies spatially and temporally for different communities, although they may face the same risk (Eele, 1996). Feasible strategies for coping with ...
www.grida.no

Terms Beginning With "O"
Canada, and the extreme northeastern United States. Ozone Layer: The protective layer in the atmosphere, about 15 miles above the ground, that absorbs some of the sun's ultraviolet rays, thereby reducing the amount of potentially harmful radiation that reaches the earth's surface. Local Navigation EPA Newsroom Glossary A | B C | D E | F G | H ...
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Terms Beginning With "U" | Terms of Environment | US EPA
Ultraviolet Rays: Radiation from the sun that can be useful or potentially harmful. UV rays from one part of the spectrum (UV-A) enhance plant life. UV rays from other parts of the spectrum ( ...
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In My Community
E. coli bacteria. The presence of this type of bacteria is a good indicator of pollution that could be potentially harmful to swimmers. When the amount of bacteria in the water exceeds State standards, beaches are posted with signs that advise against swimming. The Bathing Beach Monitoring Program is a cooperative effort of the Ohio Department of Health ...
www.epa.state.oh.us

The Member State of Illinois
Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, working together through the Great Lakes Commission, have completed the first multistate inventory of emissions of toxic air contaminants that are identified as being potentially harmful to the Great Lakes ecosystem or human health. Specifically, these states created an inventory of small point and area sources of toxic air emissions from the combined 12-county ...
glc.org

The Member State of Indiana
Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin, working together through the Great Lakes Commission, have completed the first multistate inventory of emissions of toxic air contaminants that are identified as being potentially harmful to the Great Lakes ecosystem or human health. Specifically, these states created an inventory of small point and area sources of toxic air emissions from the combined 12-county ...
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Air Toxics in the Great Lakes Region
Indiana and Wisconsin, working together through the Great Lakes Commission, have completed the first multistate inventory of emissions of toxic air contaminants that are identified as being potentially harmful to the Great Lakes ecosystem or human health. Toxic Release Inventory Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) The TRI is a database that contains specific toxic chemical releases, ...
www.great-lakes.net

Japan and the Environment
Increasingly, Japanese citizens press hard for local referenda on potentially harmful environment-related projects in their communities. During the past several years, several communities have voted against construction of nuclear power plants and dams. Japanese fishing ...
www.hoffman-and-associates.com

The Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk (HEAR) Project: Project Description
One major goal of the Hawaiian Ecosystem at Risk project (HEAR) is to provide infrastructure and impetus to create a publicly-available information base of data about (potentially) harmful non-indigenous species in Hawaii. Information collected or created by HEAR is maintained in various databases and disseminated on the world-wide web (or in hard copy on request) in various ...
www.hear.org