Sentences with phrase «avoid sharp increases»

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A study published today in Science explains how wastewater injection sites — areas where toxic water left over from oil drilling and fracking processes is injected into the ground between impermeable layers of rocks to avoid polluting freshwater — could be driving the sharp increase in the sometimes - disastrous earthquake events.

But politicians were only beginning to appreciate that it would take a staggering coordinated effort to get nations to burn fewer fossil fuels and avoid sharp temperature increases in the decades ahead.