Sentences with phrase «affect regions far»

One of the biggest concerns is that as the permafrost thaws over increasingly longer summers, an enormous amount of carbon dioxide currently stored in dead organic matter in the soil could be released to the atmosphere, which would further contribute to the warming of the planet and affect regions far from the Arctic Circle.
This is how El Niño can affect regions far from the tropics.
In other words, although Arctic warming has increased carbon uptake in the Northern Hemisphere, this research has shown that the resulting interannual variability in Arctic temperatures can affect regions further away in North America and may counteract the initially observed increases in carbon uptake.
A NASA simulation shows how this greenhouse gases spreads around the world, affecting regions far from its points of origin.

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This region is a major exporter of agricultural and manufacturing products to the entire globe, meaning that climate risks that affect industries in this region can have ripple effects far beyond the borders of these eight states.
Post-anaerobic treatment steps can also further increase water quality for extensive recycling, which is also becoming particularly relevant to countries and entire regions suffering drought or increasing affected by climate change, including South - Western USA, Australia, Africa, Southern Europe and South - Eastern and Eastern Asia.
Thus far, the petitioners have not indicated how the creating of new regions will affect the other regions, especially the ones that are being carved out.
«A thunderstorm and rain - bearing cloud system located over the coast and middle sectors, is expected to persist and further affect places in the central, western and Brong Ahafo regions till noon.
Her findings indicate that harvests in coastal regions of the northern Levant were little affected by drought; but further inland, drought lead to the need for irrigation or, in extreme cases, abandonment of the settlement.
Further analysis including in tissues from more patients with other forms of epilepsy also showed that CLOCK RNA and protein were often significantly lacking in both in excitatory and inhibitory neurons in affected brain regions.
Further, such extreme events will affect other species in the region, which have long existed under more predictable weather regimes.
Further study showed that the region of human DNA that contained the single nucleotide change associated with blondness specifically affected the expression of KITLG only in hair follicles.
Further studies of tropical regions involving new satellites should enable scientists to work with affected countries to better conserve and manage their forests.
Professor Kug notes that further research is needed to obtain a general conclusion on the matter, but this research delivers important implications for climate adaptation because the analysis shows that if current warming trends continue, it is feasible to conclude that the ecosystems in regions affected by the anomalous climate will suffer greater damages due to the cold and dry spells.
«Changing climate in the polar regions can affect rest of world far quicker than previously thought.»
In addition, the study took the research further and revealed the effects of adding Rhes to the cerebellum, a brain region normally not affected in Huntington's.
Iodine Source: Seaweed, milk from cows grazed on iodine - rich coastal soil Effects of deficiency: Blindness, mental impairment, goiter Who's at risk: People living in mountainous areas (the Rockies, the Alps, and the Andes), where iodine has been washed away by glaciation and flooding, or in lowland regions far from the oceans (Central Africa and Eastern Europe) Fortification options: Salt Estimated millions of people affected: 740
Listing typhoid fever, hepatitis A, meningitis, scabies, and lice as also affecting the vulnerable population in the region, the authors say the international community has fallen short in its response to the crisis so far and call for a coordinated and exhaustive global response.
Another interesting finding is that ocean whitening and sea ice recovery is likely to affect the climate far outside the Arctic region.
Studying how such space weather affects the farthest regions of space, where there are fewer observatories to measure such things, remains a tantalizing area of research — the more we know about our neighborhood, the more we can protect the technology we send out to explore our solar system.
The goal, in theory, is to prevent any new thrombi from forming in the heart, and to prevent the embolus from growing in size and further reducing the blood flow to the affected region.
Of course the other factor behind the low death counts so far is that estimates of deaths have mainly come from the capital and larger towns in the affected region, while small communities have been largely cut off.
Although the State of the Forest report lists logging as one of the five primary direct threats to forest cover, the report emphasises that log production in the formal sector — which has been negatively affected by a steep drop in demand due to the 2007 - 2008 global economic downturn — accounts for just 3 percent of global tropical timber production, far behind Latin America and the Asia - Pacific region.
Unchecked deforestation will have far - reaching impacts on temperature, rainfall, and monsoon cycles in regions well outside the tropics, affecting agriculture and water availability, warns a new report published by Greenpeace...
Further, substance abusers are more likely to have greater sensitization and dysfunctional limbic system responses to negative affect and also exhibit greater connectivity between the limbic and PFC regions during emotional processing, but lower levels of connectivity during cognitive reappraisal and regulation tasks, indicative of poorer regulation of negative emotional experiences and less effective cognitive control [70].
Though the new guidelines cut down the number of regions affected to Metro Vancouver, Kelowna and West Kelowna, Nanaimo - Lantzville, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Mission and the Capital Region District (excluding the Gulf Islands and Juan de Fuca)-- some say the focus should be further narrowed.
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