Villagers said they had not been adequately compensated for the use of their land - less than $3 per family, one said - and feared pollution from the plant would destroy their livelihood as fishermen.

But pollution this summer destroyed fish farms throughout the region.

The statue was removed in 1981, after Rome's pollution nearly destroyed it; now it is in the Capitoline Museum for safekeeping.

A study presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco found that light pollution destroys nitrate radicals thus preventing the normal night time reduction of atmospheric smog produced by fumes emitted from cars and factories.

Such a pollution of American freedom would destroy the United States, Peggy was sure of it.

Simultaneously, pollution has destroyed many once-rich fishing grounds and is driving fishermen off the bay, which, according to logs left by early explorers, was once so well stocked that fish could be caught by dipping a frying pan in the water.

She discovered sick and suffering people without the resources to buy medicine and that pollution threatened the global environment and destroyed wild animals' homes.

Since pollution destroys resources, it must be avoided at all costs.

But the community gradually faded away, as pollution and urbanization from the burgeoning valley destroyed the hunting and fishing industries.