By the 1990s, the diminishing quality of life in many of these urban areas was linked to the degraded local environment.

It lives on the edge of the vegetation, often in degraded environments.

By protecting the caribou today, we are preventing the future devastation caused by a degraded environment.

Both families of virus are associated with a degraded marine environment.

Today, the region's problems - inadequate education, a degraded environment, lack of control over its economy - differ only in degree from the nation's.

It was the women, she reasoned, who experienced the worst impact of a degraded environment.

In this degraded environment, the great white somehow failed to capture the fish that abounded, its normal prey.

It deals with how a degraded environment affects children in India.

The removal or destruction of areas of forest cover has resulted in a degraded environment with reduced biodiversity.

It gathers on landfills and a sharp increase in its population is therefore considered as an indicator for a degraded environment.