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