Sentences with phrase «environmental researchers say»

China's massive Three Gorges Dam, which has already displaced more than 1 million people, may have claimed a new victim: Environmental researchers say it has helped turn the country's largest freshwater lake into a dried - out plain.

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The researchers say they plan to explore in future studies how other environmental factors and previous experiences, such as interactions between mother and baby, influence the way newborns process and experience pain.

For the people of Hoosick Falls who are trying to make sense of what the high levels of PFOA in the bloodstream means, the fact sheet doesn't convey the weight of the health risks detailed in published studies, said Laurel Schaider, an environmental chemist and public health researcher at the Silent Springs Institute, which studies the links between environmental contamination and human health.

But the July 15 fundraising report may prove even more crucial for Lazio's chances as potential big - time donors assess his ability to beat Cuomo, said Bill Mahoney, a researcher at the New York Public Interest Research Group, a not - for - profit focused on environmental and government - reform issues.

Determining the differences between short and normal period clocks in spiders may help researchers find out why and how different circadian clocks are suited to the particular environmental challenges of each species, Moore said.

Americans are growing more distrustful of science and researchers according to recent studies — doubt that is emerging at a point in time when society needs science more than ever to solve pressing problems, said Jane Lubchenco, a marine biologist and environmental scientist who served as the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

«We found substantial evidence that Appalachian coal communities are working to shed the culture of coal and develop new opportunities and an evolving conception of identity based on these opportunities,» said researcher Sanya Carley of IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs.

Researchers at the UO and elsewhere had previously suggested that shared environmental spaces could lead to the sharing of microbes, he said.

The findings, the researchers say, underscore the need for policymakers to consider environmental justice when addressing climate.

Instead, the researchers wanted to learn how tissues on the outside of the early ducts communicate with the tubes» lining, says Yao, of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

«If you look up the Environmental Protection Agency's risk level of copper to fish and other aquatic organisms, you are at that point of toxicity,» said Utah State researcher Anne J. Anderson.

The researchers say the co-occurrence of high environmental stress and high rank in recreational benefits is a conundrum that calls for further research.

University of Queensland and CSIRO PhD student Viv Tulloch, affiliated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, said this was the first time researchers had used this approach to predict future Southern Hemisphere whale numbers.

For example, researchers are developing «smart» biomaterials such as temperature - sensing hydrogels that can respond biologically to environmental conditions by changing their biomechanical or drug - releasing properties, says Seeram Ramakrishna, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Nanofibers & Nanotechnology at the National University of Singapore.

«Public opinion regarding climate change is likely to remain divided as long as the political elites send out conflicting messages on this issue,» lead researcher Robert Brulle, a professor of sociology and environmental science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said in a statement.

«Restoration priorities are typically based on the evidence for environmental degradation without explicitly accounting for the benefits people receive from ecosystems, which include recreational opportunities,» said lead researcher David Allan, professor emeritus of aquatic sciences at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment.

Lead researcher Prof Carlos Peres, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «Amazonian forests provide globally important ecosystem services, including carbon storage in the forest biomass.

Sawyer says she hopes researchers and environmental groups will use the new, publicly available database to identify potential points of contamination in their own communities.

Beijing had imposed special restrictions on air pollutants, providing a rare opportunity for researchers to do relatively controlled experiments, says David Rich, an environmental epidemiologist at the University of Rochester in New York.

«Perhaps because the public perception of dingoes as «sheep - killers» is so firmly entrenched, it has been commonly assumed that dingoes killed off the thylacines and devils on mainland Australia,» says researcher Dr Thomas Prowse, Research Associate in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the Environment Institute.

The result, to appear in an upcoming issue of Environmental Science & Technology, sets a baseline, he says, against which researchers can compare the effects of other nanoparticles.

Although many researchers support Ridoutt's work, others say we don't yet know enough about global water cycles to accurately measure environmental impact.

«We found that vegetation change may have a greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming,» said lead author Ryan Bart, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

This big - picture, ecological view on a growing healthcare concern emphasizes the important relationship between antibiotic resistance in the clinic and environmental microbiology, the researchers say.

«Until 2001, the region was not experiencing a warming trend,» said Walter Andriuzzi, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biology and School of Global Environmental Sustainability.

The researchers say that both genetic and environmental factors might be involved in steering the immune system into adopting this pro-inflammatory, allergic profile.

Because environmental exposures have not had time to impact IBD progression in children, researchers have a clearer genetic picture of the disease allowing them to pick out additional genes overlooked in adult research, says senior study author Hakon Hakonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Small dams in China «often lack sufficient enforcement of environmental regulations» because they are «left to the jurisdiction of the province,» said Guy Ziv, lead scientist for the Natural Capital Project, an organization which develops tools to assess and quantify natural resources, and a researcher for the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University.

This was true across the entire island, suggesting laterality is hardwired in the birds» brains and not a product of local social traditions or environmental pressures, the researchers say.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

«We were interested to know whether intense environmental demands such as musical training at an early age influenced actual brain growth and development,» Gottfried Schlaug, the lead researcher says.

«This new temperature record provides a direct link between the volcanism and impact events and the extinction pulses — that link being climate change,» said Sierra Petersen, a postdoctoral researcher in the U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

«Both dirty and clean firms are active in lobbying, suggesting that while dirty firms lobby to maintain the status quo clean firms view environmental regulation as an opportunity to gain firm - level advantages,» Magali Delmas, Jinghui Lim and Nicholas Nairn - Birch, researchers at UCLA, said in their report.

Gabriele Villarini, UI associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and corresponding author on the paper, says researchers honed in on predicting the impacts of tropical cyclones because that information is generally more useful than typical forecasts that predict how many storms are expected in a season.

Further, it demonstrates the potential to ultimately prevent conditions like ADHD by understanding how genes and environmental exposures combine,» says lead researcher Joel Nigg, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at the OHSU School of Medicine.

«Researchers will be able to make meaningful comparisons between large - scale and small - scale fisheries, nearshore and offshore fisheries, operations in industrialized countries compared to ones in developing countries, seafood aimed at export markets versus seafood primarily consumed locally, and a host of other possibilities,» said co-author Martin Smith, a professor of environmental economics at Duke University.

«We really need a regional solution to food sustainability in the Seattle area,» said lead author Jeff Richardson, a postdoctoral researcher in the UW's School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.

«Due to climate change and GDP growth, by 2050 a one - in - fifty - years - flood might be one in 30 years so the frequency of such losses increases dramatically - almost doubling,» said co-author Brenden Jongman, researcher at the IVM Institute for Environmental Studies at VU University Amsterdam.

Rapid advances in genome sequencing have provided promising new techniques to help researchers conserve endangered species, but efforts to resurrect extinct animals raise complex legal, ethical and environmental questions, experts said at a 4 November event at AAAS.

Lead researcher Harriet Condie, from UEA's school of Environmental Sciences, said: «We took into account data such as catch and discard figures from fishing trawlers, fish prices and landing costs, to calculate whether banning the practice of discarding will offer enough of an economic incentive to fish sustainably.

These environmental costs have been largely neglected in the drive to meet the nation's growing energy needs, the researchers say, and might lock China on an irreversible and unsustainable path for decades to come.

«We found high levels of PCBs in a region of the world where we wouldn't expect to find them,» says Rosalinda Gioia, an atmospheric pollution researcher at Lancaster University, UK, and the lead author of the report of the high levels in Environmental Science & Technology.

Researchers can even go deeper, she said, by tracing the impact of the grain that was fed to the cows, or the environmental impacts of making the materials that were needed to manufacture the truck that delivers the cheese to the store.

«One of the greatest uncertainties in EU environmental legislation is that we do not know the precise effects of synergistic chemicals when determining the scale of damage to nature from chemical cocktails,» says environmental chemistry professor and lead researcher, Nina Cedergreen.

said Jonathon Stillman, associate professor of biology at San Francisco State University, who along with Ed Carpenter, professor of biology, and Tomoko Komada, associate professor of chemistry, led a team of researchers at the University's Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies.

«The same calculations can be included in stream network models, which would allow researchers to better quantify the impacts of nitrate pollution at local, continental and even global scales,» said co-author Morvarid Azizian, a postdoctoral scholar in civil & environmental engineering at UCI.

Although it's still unknown exactly why DHA is able to prevent the onset of lupus, the researchers said this study provides scientists with a better model for looking at just how much DHA is needed to ward off the environmental trigger of the disease.

«We are concerned about reports that federal agencies — including the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency — have issued directives to staff that may silence the voices of scientific researchers and others working for the federal government,» said Holt in a statement.

The researchers say that because the results are immediately available with a smartphone, the method could enable real - time monitoring of environmental pollution, disease outbreaks and food safety.

Our data clearly demonstrate that cleaning up air pollution continues to have the desired effect of improving water quality for our region's lakes,» said NHAES researcher William McDowell, professor of environmental science and director of the NH Water Resources Research Center.