Sentences with phrase «away as the ecosystem»

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In the United States, even preliminary experiments with ranching using sound as a herding signal attracted a lawsuit over fears feeding the animals could cause pollution and disrupt ecosystems (see: Lawsuit chips away at fish research).

Methane Cold Seeps Methane cold seeps are similar to the more famous black smokers in that they form isolated ecosystems as oasis in the deep ocean, but are lower temperatures and form away from mid-ocean ridges.

They plan follow - up studies to better understand how lake and river ecosystems are affected, as the number of days they spend «on ice» continues to melt away.

The Nook HD and HD + got a great update late last night (via Engadget), as Barnes & Noble finally moved away from its closed and system - specific app and media ecosystem.

If you think how quickly the Kindle came on the scene, attracted loyalists, established its own ecosystem, completely dominated the market for ebooks, and now could conceivably fade away just as quickly.

If you believe Amazon's somewhat fuzzy math, the Kindle Fire is far and away the most successful Android tablet on the market, but it's a strange kind of boast: the Fire runs «Android» in only the loosest sense of the word, as an underpinning to Amazon's ecosystem.

The more successful Apple's tablets and apps are, the more difficult it will be for Amazon to walk away from its iOS platform — but it could whip up a dangerous level of consumer, developer and even regulatory opposition to the iPhone maker (though, as the proud owner of a closed ecosystem itself, it would need to tread carefully).

Ten feet away, a 3 - foot alligator sits motionless as an egret lands on a post, then hops to another.It is a tiny, thriving ecosystem, but it is not a natural one.

«We hope visitors will come away with a greater understanding and appreciation of the world - renowned floral diversity found in California's many unique ecosystems — as well as an understanding of how climate change and increasing habitat loss are threatening Nature's fragile native plant communities and species,» the photographers say.

They are a cornerstone of ocean ecosystems and play a significant role, as they die and sink, in taking carbon out of circulation and locking it away in rock.

And a lack of coastal infrastructure, such as deepwater ports, means that spills of the heavy fuel oil that powers most vessels could wreak havoc on both ecosystems and reputations, because clean - up missions would have to set out from much farther away and would take much longer to be effective.

In the Arctic, the tipping points identified in the new report, published on Friday, include: growth in vegetation on tundra, which replaces reflective snow and ice with darker vegetation, thus absorbing more heat; higher releases of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the tundra as it warms; shifts in snow distribution that warm the ocean, resulting in altered climate patterns as far away as Asia, where the monsoon could be effected; and the collapse of some key Arctic fisheries, with knock - on effects on ocean ecosystems around the globe.»

Maintain & improve ecosystem function — The current paradigm of forest management has moved away from a debate about managing forests to address one societal need, such as downstream water supply, to recognition that management strategies need to address multiple challenges [29], [57].

Humans, as products of evolution's central «survive the present» criterion lack a strong hardwired instinct to act on behalf of the distant future and on behalf of species and ecosystems that are far away and unfamiliar.

These changes may «tip the carbonate balance» of ecosystems such as coral reefs into the negative, given the large amount of calcium carbonate that is taken away by natural processes associated with physical and biological erosion.

Similarly, Stilley deflected attention away from the notion of permanent ecosystem damage as a result of coal mining.

If the Bitcoin ecosystem will keep moving in the same direction as now, when Bitcoin is competing with payment systems, not currencies, the price risk will be moved away from end - users (both payers and merchants) to Bitcoin processors such as SpectroCoin, which perceive Bitcoin price risk as an alternative to operational risk such as fraud, chargebacks and other.

While the results of my hands - on time with Windows 10 Mobile left me walking away impressed — Windows 10 Mobile is just as snappy and fluid as Windows Phone 8 — but the Lumia 950 is still a Windows phone, so major issues such as a limited app ecosystem continue to crop up.

A fork — so named because its development «forks» away from the original development — is an independently developed piece of software that uses Android as its base, but doesn't have to be connected back to the Google ecosystem.

For most of those who are new to the Bitcoin ecosystem, they think of it as an anoymous cryptocurrency where their use is away from the prying eyes of intelligence agencies, companies and hackers.

But as the flag - bearer that is the only recently released Android TV box, it lets down the ecosystem with its inconsistent performance and will not steal many customers away from Amazon, Roku and Google itself.

Voegtlin said he believes his wallet offers a much - needed move away from centralized solutions, benefiting decentralization and the Bitcoin ecosystem as a whole.

And while Samsung may wield Tizen as the ultimate way away from Android, it's not the only manufacturer that can pose such a threat to Google's mobile ecosystem.