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