Relier Pairs Protect the wild lifeVersion en ligne Do the green thing par Elina Ihnatsiuk 1 Television has such an IMPACT on our kids. 2 Hikers and campers often become infected by drinking water from CONTAMINATED streams. 3 Thousands of lives will be AT STAKE if emergency aid does not arrive in the city soon. 4 The organization has been the subject of SEVERE criticism for the way it treated its staff. 5 Environmental problems relating to the factory have yet to be ADDRESSED. 6 The police are looking for more effective ways to COMBAT drugs gangs in the city. 7 Recycling helps CONSERVE natural and often limited resources. likely to be lost or damaged if something fails to protect something and prevent it from changing or being damaged start trying to solve the problem to make a place or substance dirty or harmful by putting something such as chemicals or poison in it the effect or influence that an event, situation etc has on someone or something very bad or very serious to try to stop something bad from happening or getting worse – used especially in news reports