Sentences with phrase «alarming decline»

«Their data show alarming declines in population and geographic ranges of endemic Hawaiian honeycreepers on the island of Kauai,» she says.

This story touches on four hot issues: a drought stretching into its fifth year that is having devastating consequences, especially in central Iran; a controversial plan to transform Iran's only island in the Caspian Sea into a tourism hub; alarming declines of Iran's forests due to wildfires, conversion to cropland, logging, and urbanization; and efforts to save the Asiatic cheetah from extinction.

John Carver's exit was inevitable, but his replacement Steve McClaren looks like damaged goods after Derby's alarming decline last season.

Having grown up as the most grounded member of his small family, he has developed a peculiar relationship with his parents, playing to their expectations while studying them as though they were lab rats, charting with alarm their declining sex life.

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Yet we continue to see alarming declines in bee numbers,» said Eric Mader, assistant pollinator conservation director at the Xerces Society.

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Scientists first started recording alarming declines in bees in North America in 2006, including some bee producers losing up to 90 percent of their colonies.

A crane accident shuts down power to a third of Vietnam, and an alarming decline of frogs and salamanders is reported.

The alarming decline, which is forecast to continue as demand for food and productive land increases, will add to the risks of conflicts such as those seen in Sudan and Chad unless remedial actions are implemented, warns the institution behind the report.

Many looking in, believe Arsenal could be faced with a similar prospect to Manchester United when they lost Sir Alex Ferguson — but that isn't true, The Gunners» alarming decline has already taken place.

Arsenal will be seeking to arrest an alarming decline having lost six of their last nine matches in all competitions, falling to sixth place in the table, six points behind fourth - placed Liverpool.

The alarming decline is largely down to the porpoises drowning in gill nets set to capture huge, bass - like fish called totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi).

Some scientists suspect that the alarming decline in Caribbean coral reefs since the late 1970s may be due in part to other, as yet unnamed pathogens imported in African dust.

By monitoring the sperm quality in dogs across the last few decades, scientists at the University of Nottingham have uncovered an alarming decline in the animal's fertility.

Scientists have uncovered an alarming decline in the male dog fertility in a study that suggests sperm quality may have been impacted by contaminants in dog food.

There has been an alarming decline in the mineral levels in fruit and vegetables.

Evidence is mounting showing an alarming decline in community play provision and the sad truth is that for many children, particularly in deprived areas, the outdoor playtime they get at school might be their lot.

Mr Gove said there had been an alarming decline in the number of pupils taking these in recent years.

Park biologists estimated there to be over 400 foxes on San Miguel in 1994, but by 1995, an alarming decline had begun.

«the reference point for the start of the alarming decline of arctic sea ice, about the time when we were awash with warnings about the imminent ice age?»