Sentences with phrase «adapting to our changing climate»

Darwin's finches show that a species can adapt to changing climates and that's it.

Being climate resilient means farms are empowered to better withstand and adapt to a changing climate — and be able to bounce back after extreme weather events.

This continuous pipeline of new rice varieties is critical to meet new demands such as adapting to a changing climate and outbreaks of pests like brown planthoppers.

But in the past several years, such questions have begun to give way to others, such as: How will the world adapt to a changing climate?

The difference is that farmers can do things to adapt to the changing climate, and hopefully alleviate the impacts on their crops,» says Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois.

But historians have usually pinned most responsibility on the Norse themselves, arguing that they failed to adapt to a changing climate.

The results, shown in the above map (red means total economic damage and blue is total economic benefit; projections are for 2080 - 2100), could guide states and the federal government toward the communities most in need of help adapting to the changed climate — should lawmakers choose to act.

The grays are opportunistic feeders, they say, which makes them better candidates to adapt to the changing climate.

«Understanding the genome will help us make conservation plans that allow Joshua tree to adapt to changing climates and environments,» said project scientist Christopher Irwin Smith, a biologist at Willamette University.

There will be «winners» and «losers» as species adapt to a changing climate.

But fossil fuels development and loss of vegetation does have a big effect on how a region responds and adapts to a changing climate because of the water stress it creates where drilling is occurring.

It's all expected in the Central Hardwoods Region of southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and the Missouri Ozarks, according to a new report by the U.S. Forest Service, and partners that assesses the vulnerability of the region's forest ecosystems and its ability to adapt to a changing climate.

«It's obvious now that the climate is changing, so it's a good time to get [the information] in front of transportation folks to help them understand the climate issue, what is transportation's role in it, and what can be done to both adapt to a changing climate and reduce the impact,» she said.

Humans have adapted to a changing climate for as long as we have been around.

The flexibility and ability to adapt to changing climates by employing various cultural innovations allowed communities of early humans to survive through a prolonged period of pronounced aridification.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs also revealed a $ 10 million educational policy to help tribes adapt to changing climate conditions.

What they discover may help plants adapt to a changing climate.

The findings could aid the development of crops that can adapt to changing climates.

This study of a common inhabitant of the Great Barrier Reef is a rare optimistic contribution to our understanding of how a species can adapt to changing climate conditions.

It's possible that elkhorn coral could evolve and adapt to the changing climate.

However, if we choose a different path — if we act aggressively to both adapt to the changing climate and to mitigate future impacts by reducing carbon emissions — we can significantly reduce our exposure to the worst economic risks from climate change, and also demonstrate global leadership on climate.

Rice - based farming systems are now driven to develop and test innovations that adapt to changing climates and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions.

In turning to a methodological issue, the new archaeological horizons in the Monte Verde area are difficult to trace laterally over areas larger than ~ 8 — 10 m2 and probably represent only fragments of a broader landscape utilized by people adapting to changing climates and environments in the area.

They're made using Ronhill's Thermalite ™ fabric, which is hard wearing, durable and will help you to adapt to changing climates.

Climate Change: Observations on Federal Efforts to Adapt to a Changing Climate.

Summarizes GAO's prior and ongoing work examining (1) actions that federal, state, local, and international authorities are taking to adapt to a changing climate, (2) the challenges that federal, state, and local officials face in their efforts to adapt, and (3) actions that the Congress and federal agencies could take to help address these challenges.

Mini Golden Retrievers, like their larger counterparts, shed an undercoat seasonally to adapt to changing climates.

But to say that companies are «re-producing» vs. adapting to the changing climate might come off as little cocky.

On your other point, I know that a major issue is how well and quickly we can adapt to the changing climate.

Instead, the leaders pledged to reach some sort of political accord calling for reductions in emissions and aid for developing nations to adapt to a changing climate.

That's why it's good to see projects that are looking beyond mitigation — taking bold and ambitious steps now to aid communities in adapting to our changing climate.

To some extent, today's session is just part of the broader North - South tussle over how to share benefits (derived from biological resources) and burdens (from constraining greenhouse gases and adapting to changing climate patterns).

The very things we need to do to adapt to a changing climate are exactly the same actions we need to take to slow down, or even reverse, global warming in the first place.

Traditional wisdom combined with modern methods of agro-ecology is helping Indian farmers in diverse parts of the country to adapt to a changing climate

Faced with longer and hotter summers, many farmers in the Sundarbans have embraced organic farming with local crop varieties that are better adapted to a changing climate

To adapt to a changing climate, species and populations must now traverse vast expanses of agricultural and urbanized landscapes that simply did not exist in that state over 100 years ago.

Plants and animals can also gradually change their range to adapt to changing climate.

When expanded to consider the need to adapt to a changing climate, it is clear that business as usual with nitrogen and phosphorus will enhance our risks and make adaptation to climate change more difficult.

Initiatives designed to help poor countries like Myanmar adapt to a changing climate are critical, but have long been underfunded.

The USA Today Editorial Board write «As a National Academy of Sciences panel reported last week, solar geoengineering is no substitute for efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to a changing climate.»

If it can adapt to the changing climate, a substantial increase in climatically suitable area and relatively stable summer range are projected — both potentially good news for the species.

Explore actions to reduce emissions («mitigation») and adapt to a changing climate.

I think a well developed world economy can easily adapt to a changed climate, and particularly agriculture, through a combination of CO2 fertilisation, large water projects and use of new crops.

The United Nations Environment Programmme (UNEP) has launched a web app and infographic to support people living and working on coasts in making decisions on how to adapt to a changing climate.

We look forward to continuing our work to ensure that forest systems are managed sustainably and can adapt to the changing climate.»

And only 20 per cent of the fast start finance has been allocated to projects that will help poor nations adapt to a changing climate.

With the prospect of a warmer world, the imperative to adapt to a changing climate further emphasizes the need to scale up support for climate - resilient, low - carbon development.

Other uncertainties include imprecise understandings of how complex ecosystems will respond to climate - and non-climate-induced changes and the extent to which organisms may be able to adapt to a changing climate.

For example, in managing water supplies to adapt to a changing climate, the implications of international treaties should be considered in the context of managing the Great Lakes, the Columbia River, and the Colorado River to deal with increased drought risk.

The need to adapt to a changing climate and eventually to mitigate climate change increasingly requires more accurate information on fluxes across the traditional domains atmosphere, ocean, land in order to improve our understanding of the major climatic cycles, carbon, water and energy.