Sentences with phrase «alarming declines of»

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.

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

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Those who point with alarm to a precipitate decline of the oldline churches and a sudden thriving of conservative ones are not, of course, referring only to numbers.

He declined a Purple Heart for fear of alarming my mother.

Mount Putuo in Zhejiang is the latest of several religious sites whose administrators have gone down this route, prompting gloomy musings about moral decline and alarm at the ever greater commercialization of Chinese culture.

Academic students of ecology were among the first to sound the alarm about the loss of species diversity and the declining health of the planet's ecosystems.

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.

Balotelli was never prolific during his time at Man City, but his decline this term has been nothing short of alarming.

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.

But if the system isn't working, or these players are being utilised out of position, then the decline is alarming, both to the individuals and the system.

Their decline has centred around an alarming sequence of results which has seen Steven Kean's men fail to win a single one of their previous eight games, though a succession of draws has at least maintained some flow of points in their direction.

Some parents are already raising alarms that the food quality has declined this year; that the standards have been watered down; and that Chartwells, with a new contract as of SY 2012 - 2013, is serving food that only nominally meets the requirements.

But even as he sounded the alarm, it remained to be seen whether his call to action would actually reverse the subway's decline and change the daily experience of frustrated riders.

The incredible decline in the standard and quality of policing by the Nigeria police force has reached an unprecedented alarming rate with their naked dance of...

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

Over the past few decades, a small international clan of scientists, alarmed by the sudden decline of corals, have created underwater nurseries aimed at «replanting» corals to buttress wild populations.

Such figures cause conservationists alarm, as the study shows over 54 percent is a level of poaching that elephant birth rates are unable to overcome and will lead to population decline.

«Coral reefs are declining at an alarming rate and coral restoration programs are now considered an essential component to coral conservation and management plan,» said Diego Lirman, UM Rosenstiel School professor of marine biology and ecology and a coauthor of the study.

Nevertheless, FAO is sounding an alarm on gradual declines in wild catch fishing production and depletion of stocks, while being careful to note that growth in the global aquaculture industry is largely making up the difference and seems poised to overtake capture fishing as the world's leading source of seafood.

Scientists are urgently trying to determine the causes of colony collapse disorder and the alarming population declines of honeybees.

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.

Additionally while our research suggests it is easier than ever to find a date we have also become more of a commodity easily traded and our research also shows that while getting a date is easy our dating skills have declined at an alarming rate.

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.

Looking at the data available we see a decline in the representation of male teachers over the last 50 years, and what's alarming is the rate of this decline.

The Association of Play Industries, whose members provide outdoor play facilities for children, has uncovered an alarming decline in playground provision across England.

That's a decline of 6,510 potential teachers and as general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, Geoff Barton, said the numbers are «alarming» and «pretty disastrous».

That's why we note with alarm the sharp decline in the population of black teachers in our cities.»

The number of applications for teaching licensure in Indiana has declined by more than 1,000 per year, representing an alarming decrease of over 20 percent in the last six years.

The Condition of Future Educators 2015 report released by ACT in July 2016 declared that «interest among ACT - tested [high school] graduates in becoming educators continues to decline at an alarming rate.»

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

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What's alarming though is the underlying decline in interim revenues (when you exclude the impact of the Klemme acquisition).

Also, as mentioned in our previous blog, the crucial baitfish species that they are utterly dependent on for survival are all declining in drastic and alarming ways in the past couple of decades.

According to our sources, the new results are alarming and indicate further decline of the species.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is alarmed by the dramatic decline of at least 30 percent in the Bengal tiger population of Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve in Nepal, once a refuge that boasted among the highest densities of the endangered...

I would agree that it is possible that arctic ice is declining long term, but it does not seem to be doing so at any alarming rate, (about the same as 2007) and there does not seem to be any alarming developments as a result of it in any case.

As of today... well sir global average temperature has been in rapid decline since 2010 and the rate of decline is alarming.

The alarming claim that reindeer populations across Northern Russia were «in steep decline because of climate change», was made during the first episode of the recent -LSB-...]

Once those who mimic the biased alarming basis of the IPCC learned that Mann (with great public IPCC and Gore acclaim) successfully hid in his hockey stick the decline of late 20th paleo proxy temps and also hid the MWP then those same IPCC mimics also started to take advantage of Mann's precedent.

In scanning comments generated by the recent flurry of internet interest in polar bears and blogs I noticed that a good many people, fed alarming media stories, are still convinced that polar bear numbers are declining rapidly when nothing could be further from the truth.

^ ^ ^ ^ data showing 1.0 C / decade rate of decline in lower troposphere temperature since 2010 — I'm not making it up — global average temperature has been dropping like a stone since 2010 — in fact that rate of decline is itself alarming if it continues for long — it had better be a freak happenstance of back - to - back to La Ninas because a repeat of the Little Ice Age will have a far higher toll in absolute number of lives lost compared to the last one.

Pesticides Linked to Declining Bee Populations Also Threaten Birds and Small Mammals http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/42959-pesticides-linked-to-declining-bee-populations-also-threaten-birds-and-small-mammals Though the scientific community is sounding the alarm about the die - off (at least in the case of the bees), they are even now completely in denial or oblivious to the highly toxic climate engineering and its effects on terrestrial life forms.

As to the ethics of climate disaster researchers, and the credibility of their models, data and reports, ClimateGate emails reveal that researchers used various «tricks» to mix datasets and «hide the decline» in average global temperatures since 1998; colluded to keep skeptical scientific papers out of peer - reviewed journals; deleted potentially damaging or incriminating emails; and engaged in other practices designed to advance manmade climate change alarms.

The rampant air and water pollution resulting from fossil fuel use has garnered considerable attention in recent years, with landmark studies on the human health effects and other costs of coal burning, and alarming accounts of declining air quality in gas - and - oil - drilling boomtowns.

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While the rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest may be declining, it and other rainforests around the world continue to be cleared at an alarming rate.

Right now, as many as 1/3 of all shark species are threatened with extinction, and the rates at which species are declining is alarming.

I know that for me, my early fishing experiences are seared into my memory, and my love of fishing eventually led, very directly, into my alarm at the declines I was seeing and my desire to devote my life to conservation.

At the very least, it shows an irrelevance to the alarm we've heard over and over again about the decline of winter.

«While the recession started roughly 10 years ago, a return to this level of single - family construction is no cause for alarm for two major reasons: the market has completely different underlying economics now, and housing starts in October 2007 had already declined by half from their peak levels in early 2006.»