Sentences with phrase «about ecosystems by»

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Techcircle caught up with the Infosys co-founder on the sidelines of the #Future Summit, a global digital conclave organised by the Kerala government at Kochi, where he opened up about the challenges India faces as a country, the mentorship gap in the startup ecosystem, the significance of education and country - specific innovations.

We helped accelerate a tech ecosystem by investing in (and often relocating) about 100 tech companies (goals for years 1 and 2).

The same reason why older founders are ignored by the ecosystem is the same reason why women and other minorities struggle in the Valley: It's really not about what you build, but what you look like while building it.

By learning more deeply about new and emerging social ecosystems, social business models, and social buyer cycles, B2B business leaders can be better informed on the future direction of their organization.

By tracing the journey of bananas from tropical farms in Honduras to their breakfast tables, students will learn about the origin of one of their favorite foods and how they are connected to ecosystems and cultures that may seem very distant.

Environmental students learned about the prairie ecosystem, collecting data for fieldwork by identifying plants, looking at invasive plants and studying wildlife.

If people want to restore self - managing varied landscapes, they can draw on the knowledge provided by the new study about the composition of natural ecosystems in the past.

It turns out that forests in the Andean and western Amazonian regions of South America break long - understood rules about how ecosystems are put together, according to new research led by Carnegie's Greg Asner and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Chinese officials staged a sudden about - face, acknowledging for the first time that the massive hydroelectric dam, sandwiched between breathtaking cliffs on the Yangtze River in central China, may be triggering landslides, altering entire ecosystems and causing other serious environmental problems — and, by extension, endangering the millions who live in its shadow.

«Ecosystem changes brought about by zebra mussels have been dramatic.

You can bang a drum about fighting these companies but I would hope that we can learn more by working with them,» says Ewers, who runs the Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems project (SAFE).

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

As the planet faces the dawn of a sixth mass extinction, scientists are searching for clues about the uncertain road ahead by exploring how ancient ecosystems collapsed and bounced back from traumatic upheavals.

Proponents of moving plants and animals threatened by rising temperatures to more hospitable locations are more concerned about the increasing rate of species extinction, while opponents are more worried about the integrity of coevolved ecosystems.

«By linking fisheries to ecology, we can now make informed statements about ecosystem function at a given level of fish biomass.»

Communicate to citizens and particular stakeholders, including local communities, youth, governments, civil society, and the private sector, about the value of snow leopards and their ecosystem, and sustain the effort by celebrating 23 October 23 each year as the International Snow Leopard Day with presentation of an annual International Snow Leopard Conservation Award, and 2015 as the International Year of the Snow Leopard.

These powerful narratives of failure to control are reinforced by the fact that there is no clear consensus among scientists about the uncertainties raised by the use of genomic technologies in our ecosystems.

Grades 6 - 8, 9 - 12 Submitted by Dr. Pelham Mead] In this multi-media lesson, students create a Web site about ecosystems.

«We're trying to push the boundaries on how students understand ecosystem science,» says Amy Kamarainen, a senior researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, who was invited to speak about EcoMOBILE at a forum on the future of STEM learning sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the White House.

Zoo and Aquarium Month - Teach students about the zoo with a few animal crafts, and all about the aquarium by having students create an ecosystem.

A smaller event run by content guy Eddie Cue, Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, will likely focus more on the special content ecosystem designed just for the iPad Mini — with less oohing and aahing about the hardware.

I think there are lot of people who will not by an iPad because of Apple's closed ecosystem and also hesitate to buy Android tablet (some are suspiciously cheap, no tablet specific Google OS version is available now, confusion about OS versions, etc.).

Used here by permission, is their new insightful message about the current 2012 state of the publishing ecosystem.

Think about it — The Platforms are using Books published by the Big 5 Publishers to attract readers to their ecosystems and get locked into their pipelines.

That suggests there's a price point where buyers are no longer discerning about things like app ecosystems and future support, and simply feel compelled by a well known brand sold at a super low cost.

«This white paper draws upon novel insights contributed by international experts about the scholarly ecosystem of publisher content, research tools, and library systems.

Then, we are joined by Andrew Harmon, Communications Director, WildAid, who tells us about the importance of sharks in the ecosystem and the extreme harm and cruelty caused by the practice of shark «finning.»

Besides the whales, the 9 - day festival involves over 90 events all geared towards educating visitors and locals alike about the incredible ecosystem, both marine and forest, that they find themselves surrounded by.

It is an intangible territory of the National System of Natural Areas protected by the Peruvian State, with a surface of 32,592 hectares (80,535 acres or 325.92 km ²), which includes Andean and high jungle Amazonian areas, inter-Andean valleys, gorges, mountains and rivers, which form ecosystems and very varied fauna and flora, like more than 200 species of orquids that develop in its 9 life zones, going from 1,850 to about 6,270 m.a.s.l.

 Headed by the Caribbean and Gulf Rays and Shark Program of the Wild Life Conservation SocietyÂ's director, Dr. Rachel Graham, it was a chance for children to learn about the important role sharks play in the underwater ecosystem.

I hope to peak our guests; curiosity about the astonish reefs» biodiversity - but also give them the knowledge about the threats, that year by year, are damaging this ecosystem.

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Learn about our unique redwood forest ecosystem and the amazing array of wildlife and spectacular scenery that can only be accessed by mountain bike.

When you arrive at the park, start your 2 - hour nature tour by hiking along an ecological trail with your experienced guide, who will tell you about the native wildlife and plant life that make up this Dominican Republic ecosystem.

While I wasn't impressed by its social features, Nintendo still managed to show off that they're serious about building a fully functional online ecosystem.

Jacob Rhodes, Director of Field Projects, is pleased to present PAST FUTURE TENSE, a solo show by Rachel Frank that explores the socio - political and Anthropogenic shifts brought about by human activity, highlighting our relationships to vanishing ecosystems, life forms, and modes of dwelling.

-- If the Oscar - winning fortune of Life of Pi didn't bring enough glory to Alexis Rockman, the painter who created the visual inspiration for the film, then the artist is about to encounter plenty more with a solo exhibition of new work inspired by the New York City's ecosystem opening at Sperone Westwater in mid-September, followed by an exhibition of his watercolors from the Ang Lee film at the Drawing Center later in the month.

The anthropological flavor imparted by the presentation suggests that such distinctions might not matter, and that the marks, for all that they reveal about the anonymous people who made them, are part of a formal ecosystem that also includes the colors and textures of the walls on which they are drawn.

I fear not only for the deceitful economics creating lies about infinite growth and prosperity for all, but also for a generation so engulfed by electronic technology they have no idea of the word ecosystem let alone having «experienced» one.

Amid nonstop work tracking developments at the climate talks in Paris, I had to slip in a note about the Planetary Health Alliance, an important new initiative aimed at mixing disciplines in ways that can bolster human health by considering its relationship to the health of ecosystems.

; any large object in the oceans «creates... ecosystems,» but the fact is that we should be much more concerned about the several enormous dead zones in the oceans than our energy problems, the latter which can be solved by weaning ourselves off our oil addiction; the fact is that the single most common object in the oceans today is plastic; the fact is that 90 % of the game fish of the oceans is gone.

; any large object in the oceans «creates... ecosystems,» but the fact is that we should be much more concerned about the several enormous dead zones in the oceans than our energy problems, the latter which can be solved by weaning ourselves off our oil addiction; the fact is that the single most commen object in the oceans today is plastic; the fact is that 90 % of the game fish of the oceans is gone.

*** «Perhaps concern over «uncertainty» in complex, adaptive, open systems should be investigated by inductive generalization from observations of the dynamics of a wide range of such systems: ecosystems, social systems, computer systems, immune systems, economic systems... It is curious that the following things are never admitted as «facts about the world,» but here goes: the observer would note of all of these systems that they undergo oscillations within apparent parameters and occasionally flip into new regimes; they often demonstrate novel emergence; and that increased forcing, whether of native elements or exotic ones, increases the rates of oscillation and catastrophic shifts, sometimes after a quieter period of sub-threshold build - up.

What I think just about everybody underestimates is 1) the historical difficulty of «living off the land», and 2) the degree to which that is compounded by ecosystem disruption and «weather weirding.»

These credits are sold at a fraction of the regulatory market price to buyers concerned about reducing their carbon footprint for reasons other than compliance with the law, as documented in State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2008, published by the Ecosystem Marketplace and New Carbon Finance.

There is also uncertainty about the impact of oil and gas operations on the marine ecosystems that unique to the Arctic, and how both might be affected by climate change related impacts.

Gu's research indicates that the maximum uptake of carbon dioxide by plant ecosystems occurs when cloud cover is about 50 percent.

This shift, combined with the other transformations in the energy ecosystem require new ways of thinking about the electricity system and power generation that can be supported by the existing grid infrastructure.

The study estimates that, when ecosystem services provided by forests are accounted for, forests make a direct contribution to the national economy equivalent to about 4.7 % of gross domestic product (GDP), which rises to 6.3 % with the application of multiplier effects.

A team of international scientists is due to set off for the world's biggest iceberg, fighting huge waves and the encroaching Antarctic winter, in a mission aiming to answer fundamental questions about the impact of climate change in the polar regions.The scientists, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are trying to reach a newly revealed ecosystem that had been hidden for 120,000 years below the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula.In July last year, part of the Larsen C ice shelf calved away, forming a huge iceberg - A68 - which is four times bigger than London, and revealing life beneath for the first time.