Sentences with phrase «changes in the way land»

Some carbon removal technology is controversial because some methods involve planting new forests and forcing large - scale changes in the way land is used, possibly displacing people and the farms they rely on to grow their food.

Melillo's study suggests that changes in the way land is used, as a consequence of growing crops for biofuels, is not taken into account, and if it were then those biofuels would be shown to actually cause more greenhouse gases to be released than fossil... Read more

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They include a small - town conservation biologist and a couple of big - city ex-bankers who met after the easements law was changed — at a moment in the wake of the real estate crisis when investors began looking for ways to salvage value from land whose price had plummeted.

Gavin decided to pursue environmental law while working on a small family farm, an experience which changed his perspective on the world and began connecting him to the land in new ways.

The way he sees it, The Globe and Mail's Barrie McKenna and Brent Jang reported, markets have reacted to the changes in mortgage rules «in a way which has in effect engineered a soft landing, a much more comfortable kind of situation.»

It is easy to stand and prophecy that in the future there will be strange new religions, that people will do things foreign to our understanding, and swear that our gods will not be pleased... and be correct... because it is the nature of human beings to change, to modify our beliefs to fit our experience, to seek out new understanding, change the way we dress and do our hair, and unfortunately, it is in our nature to fight over stupid crap like land and religion.

It sounds like we will be getting significant changes in the coming year, as Augusta National moves the tee on No. 13 way back after purchasing land from the adjacent Augusta Country Club.

Please you guys should stop this chambers, i really hate Costa for his antics but i watched the match on tv and so the way he behaved throughout the game, i thinkers he has changed... early in the second half Chambers prevented a tap - in from Pedro and ended up landing in post, Pedro left his side only for Diego Costa to show up and check on him #class

Through a series of unlikely events, they had an experience at Story Land and in the Mount Washington Valley that changed their family forever — that helped them get through Belle's pediatric cancer treatment in a way nothing else could.

«After a long and drawn out budget negotiation, I was very pleased to see an on - time budget that removed the PILOT, which would have changed the way the state would pay taxes on forever wild lands in New York,» said state Assemblyman Dan Stec (R - Queensbury).

But after losing a lawsuit, the Adirondack Park Agency is now proposing a change in the Adirondack land - use plan in hopes of clearing the way for the 34 - mile multi-use trail between Tupper Lake and Lake Placid.

Enlargement, successive NO votes in EU - related referenda, and, most importantly, the decisive blow to «ever - closer union» landed by the eurozone crisis are changing the way Europe operates.

Still, land use in some ways might be a trickier challenge to understand, and maybe even solve, than climate change, said Ackerly.

Zimbabwe's foremost land degradation expert has come up with a readily available solution for reversing the spread of deserts around the planet and slowing climate change in the process: He wants to let cows and sheep eat their way through the problem.

By, for example, examining what people in the area use different trees and shrubs for and look at how the landscape changes, we can better understand how land use, social change, climate and ecosystems interact, even in ways that can be unexpected,» says Lowe Börjeson, Associate Professor at the Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University.

«A warming climate is affecting the Arctic in the most complex ways,» said Virginia Burkett, USGS Associate Director for Climate and Land Use Change.

«While there is no one silver bullet technology to end climate change, using direct air capture to make fuels is potentially scalable, in a way that biofuels aren't, because it doesn't use much land or other resources,» he says.

«Our system provides an objective way to classify the land surface, which is important not only for monitoring change but also for comparing the behaviour of ecosystems in different parts of the world.

Yet, says botanist Jan Pokorny of Charles University in Prague, these snippets from Kenya are not about greenhouse gases, but rather the way that land - use changes — specifically deforestation — affect climate; newly tree - free ground «represents huge amounts of solar energy changed into sensible heat, i.e. hot air.»

In those cases, rivers become a main source of information because they leave behind geomorphic signatures that geologists can interrogate to learn about the way those rivers once interacted with the land — helping them to pin down when the land changed and by how much, for example.

Your statement that «Thus it is natural to look at the real world and see whether there is evidence that it behaves in the same way (and it appears to, since model hindcasts of past changes match observations very well)» seems to indicate that you think there will be no changes in ocean circulation or land use trends, nor any subsequent changes in cloud responses thereto or other atmospheric circulation.

Unless we change the way we manage our land, in the next 30 years we may leave a billion or more vulnerable poor people with little choice but to fight or flee.

There is no real life proof that «races» differ in any meaningful way besides minor ecological and geographical adaptations and evolutionary differences like my long thin nose to pick a rather vulgar example, which clearly changed from my African forefathers due to their migration to colder climates, thus allowing the more efficient heating of the air inhaled, to avoid hypothermia with the minor drawback of restricting the flow of air and thus reducing the amount that can be inhaled compared to those in warmer lands.

Chronologically, it follows the life of a wayward immigrant Italian boy who changed his ways, goes on to become an Olympic athlete, only to enlist in WWII as an Air force bombardier who then emergency crash - lands in the Pacific Ocean.

Children consider ways in which we use the land and how it has changed since WW2.

This may be the best way to learn about all of the changes in the new version of the Discovery, Land Rover's top - selling U.S. offering.

It has always been difficult to land a publishing contract, but the recent changes in the industry have led to decreasing revenue which in turn has led to a change in the way that publishing houses approach perspective authors.

How did the coming of white settlers change the native way of life, particularly in terms of families» relations to the land, a traditional economy, and education?

He decided to visit Spain for a change of scenery and lifestyle but got way more than he bargained for when before long, misfortune, circumstance and a degree of stupidity landed him in more trouble than that from which he had fled back home.

Among openDemocracy's articles on African politics and conflicts: Gillian Slovo, «Making history: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission» (5 December 2002) Katharine Houreld, «The cost of peace in Ivory Coast» (15 February 2006) Patricia Daniel, «Mali: everyone's favourite destination» (11 May 2006) Gilles Yabi, «Guinea: a state of suspension» (28 February 2007) Angelique Haugerud, «Kenya: spaces of hope» (23 January 2008) Anna Husarska, «Kenya's displaced people: a photo - essay» (5 February 2008) Lyndall Stein, «Ethiopia: the tears and the rains» (23 July 2008) Emmanuelle Bernard, «Guinea - Bissau: drug boom, lost hope» (13 September 2008) Lara Pawson, «Angola's elections: the politics of no change» (23 September 2008) Elleke Boehmer, «Beyond the icon: Nelson Mandela in his 90th year» (12 November 2008) Gérard Prunier, «The eastern DR Congo: dynamics of conflict» (17 November 2008) John Makumbe, «Zimbabwe: wrong way, right way» (2 February 2009) Gérard Prunier, «The Kenya we want» (3 February 2009) Gérard Prunier, «Somalia: beyond the quagmire» (25 February 2009) Roger Southall, «South Africa's election: a tainted victory» (7 April 2009) I advised the macadamia nut - farmers to form a cooperative and work together to get to the bottom of what had happened - find out who owned the macadamia trees; create a register; then determine who was selling macadamia nuts even though they had no trees growing on their own land.

I think of the crazy worldoffruit.com online effort in the v late 90s (which `... received a very positive reaction from within the produce industry and looks set to dramatically change the way in which fresh fruit and vegetables are traded across the globe...»), the lack of earnings growth in the past few years, the ludicrous de-merger of Fyffes, Total Produce and Blackrock (now Balmoral International Land, whose shares subsequently collapsed and are now delisted), etc..

Having a few killer apps installed on your phone can help you find your way around the airport, get delay and gate change notifications, track flights in the air and know exactly when a flight has landed.

International flights to Bali land in Denpasar, and while direct flights do exist you should be prepared to change at least once on the way, with an overnight layover quite likely.

You can change the map in several ways such as the configuration of the land masses, size of the overall terrain, types of tiles with temperature, and choosing up to 7 enemy civilizations to compete against.

The «proper» games include Spring Breeze, a remake of the original Kirby's Dream Land now featuring copy abilities; Dyna Blade, a short adventure in which Kirby ventures to stop a powerful bird; The Great Cave Offensive, a Metroidvania that sees Kirby scavenging for treasures; Revenge of Meta - Knight, where Kirby prevents an uncharacteristically villainous Meta - Knight from conquering Dream Land; and Milky Way Wishes, a title which changes up the Kirby formula while implementing elements from the other games.

It has shown through in numerous ways like climate change, pesticide drift, land degradation, air pollution, and habitat destruction.

Meanwhile here in Australia, we have a federal election on, and both major parties are way off in lala land on climate change, supported by the Murdoch media.

Raising livestock contributes to climate change and environmental degradation in other ways as well: it takes far more grain and land to produce a calorie of food for humans by feeding grains to animals than directly to people.

Also, things are the way they are — setting aside the politics (for recieving nations) and psychological costs (for those moving), it would make sense to some extent for people to move toward places set up for efficient wealth generation rather than to spread the wealth among the people whereever they are, so it wouldn't make sense to try to wipe the slate clean of the advantages gained from history let along geography, although the later does bring up the issue of climate change refugees, and some wealth generating capacity is spread out (land), and of course some clean energy resources are rather abundant in the developing world or parts thereof, and energy needs differ geographically even for the same lifestyle — see above... this whole paragraph should reference itself....

Your statement that «Thus it is natural to look at the real world and see whether there is evidence that it behaves in the same way (and it appears to, since model hindcasts of past changes match observations very well)» seems to indicate that you think there will be no changes in ocean circulation or land use trends, nor any subsequent changes in cloud responses thereto or other atmospheric circulation.

The world's great forests are part of the climate machinery, and more than 195 nations agreed in Paris in 2015 to take steps to contain climate change, both by managing the way they used land and by switching from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.

The phrase has stuck and indeed so has the tactic, being used in front of audiences by all manner of advocates of all manner of things from creationism to «faked» moon landings to climate change denial, where it is a popular way of appearing to be winning a debate.

«The way we manage the lands in the future could deliver 37 % of the solution to climate change... if we are serious about climate change, then we are going to have to get serious about investing in nature

Since 1900, the change in spatial coverage does not seem to have affected land records significantly.2 Before then, however, even careful analysis may lead to long - term averages that are either too warm or too cold by up to 0.1 C. 1 Records may be affected by changes in the way observations are made.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

For example, let's say that evidence convinced me (in a way that I wasn't convinced previously) that all recent changes in land surface temperatures and sea surface temperatures and atmospheric temperatures and deep sea temperatures and sea ice extent and sea ice volume and sea ice density and moisture content in the air and cloud coverage and rainfall and measures of extreme weather were all directly tied to internal natural variability, and that I can now see that as the result of a statistical modeling of the trends as associated with natural phenomena.

In other word, all (or virtually all) of the accelerating increases in atmospheric CO2 levels in caused by human interventions, primarily by way of burning of fossil fuels and changing land usagIn other word, all (or virtually all) of the accelerating increases in atmospheric CO2 levels in caused by human interventions, primarily by way of burning of fossil fuels and changing land usagin atmospheric CO2 levels in caused by human interventions, primarily by way of burning of fossil fuels and changing land usagin caused by human interventions, primarily by way of burning of fossil fuels and changing land usage.

But if they continue to see mixing at the scales the lab work suggests, the findings could change the way ocean scientists think about the role of animals in influencing their watery environment — and potentially our climate on land.

I've said it before and I'll say it again; when you take some type of land and change it into some other type of land, it acts differently, will affect the weather in some way and thus has an effect upon the climate.

Although the Middle East is not currently rebounding from an ice age, the scientists say those ancient rebounds have things in common with the way the climate is changing today: Rainfall is decreasing and higher temperatures are causing more evaporation that is drying up the land.