Sentences with phrase «by dramatic decline»

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...

One typical pattern exhibits low accrual in early years, accelerating in mid-late years, followed by dramatic decline, or even negative returns in years that are relatively young for retirement.

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The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer, the annual global study often considered the gold standard in trust data measurement recently stated that, «In a year marked by turbulence at home and abroad, trust in institutions in the United States crashed, posting the steepest, most dramatic general population decline the Trust Barometer has ever measured.»

What's happening is basically that we reached a peak of unicorns cropping up, and now that peak is being balanced out by what might be a dramatic decline.

2014.11.20 RBC Kids Optimism Survey shows late - teens hit hard by quarter - life crisis Dramatic decline in happiness and optimism happens during late - teens.

The letter also includes a plea for refugees, saying that «we are troubled by the dramatic reduction in arrivals of refugees to the United States, which declined from 96,874 in 2016 to just 33,368 in 2017.»

About 95 percent of schools are reportedly meeting the standards, but GOP lawmakers backed by the School Nutrition Association (SNA) said the provisions have led to an increase in food waste and a dramatic decline in student participation over the last three years.

People point to the worrying figures about the numbers of journalists that have been laid off (with net newsroom employment down by more than 10,000 since 2007), the difficulties facing city and state newspapers, and to the dramatic decline of ad revenues.

The quality of government — an elusive concept but measured here by various measures of public satisfaction — has not shown the dramatic decline that some expected, but neither has it improved significantly as expected by advocates of more responsive and transparent government processes.

And while his base may want more, Mr. de Blasio can point to several police reforms in his first year: a dramatic drop in the number of people stopped by police; a staggering decline in marijuana arrests thanks to a policy change; a plan to roll out body cameras in accordance with a federal lawsuit.

By the late 1980s, the decline in Tay - Sachs births was more dramatic within Orthodox neighborhoods than outside them.

He suspects that it is the combined insults from ß - amyloid and tau that drive the often - dramatic decline: Although the brain may be able compensate for the deficits caused by ß - amyloid, once tau starts to spread, «that pushes you over,» he says.

Such a dramatic decline could turn the land from taking up carbon overall to pumping it out by 2100, as the rate of respiration by soil microbes, which exhale carbon dioxide, is predicted to increase in a warmer world.

The number of insects continues to decrease — in some regions, a dramatic decline by up to 75 percent has been recorded in recent decades.

By the end of 2012, 35 mm film in movie theaters is expected to decline to 37 percent on a global scale, which is a dramatic decline from 68 percent of global cinema screens in 2010.

The findings suggest that while the response of Antarctic summer sea ice to human - caused climate change may be less dramatic than in the Arctic, sea ice cover may have declined by as much as 14 % over the last 100 years.

Primarily because of diseases introduced by exotic, domestic sheep grazing in their habitat, Sierra Nevada bighorns experienced a series of dramatic declines in the latter half of the 20th century.

In a dramatic change of opinion over the past year, support for charter schools has declined by 12 percentage points, from 51 % last year to only 39 % this year (36 % opposed).

When these 6th graders move to a middle school in the 7th grade, however, we see the same dramatic fall in academic achievement: math scores decline by 0.17 standard deviations and English achievement falls by 0.14 standard deviations.

We will therefore next look at another scam created by the legislature called Ghost Money before reviewing how two poison pills inserted into the Levy Swipe Scam will cause dramatic declines in school funding in the coming years.

A 2005 research study by the MDRC, a New York - and Oakland, California - based research group, found that Kansas City high schools produced and sustained a «double digit» improvement in the percentage of 11th - graders reading proficiently and a dramatic decline in the percentage of students scoring «unsatisfactory» on the state test.

Because of dramatic job losses due to declines in global oil prices, this Budget proposes legislative changes to extend the duration of EI regular benefits by five weeks, up to a maximum of 50 weeks of benefits for anyone living in a resource - dependent region.

Despite average thirty - year FHA interest rates dipping below the 5 % illustrious threshold, the MBA noted last week that the number of people seeking purchase loan applications has declined by over 27 %, the most dramatic drop since May of 1997.

The 2013 data, compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published November 15th in the Journal of the American Veterinary Association, show a decline of 10 cases (3.9 percent) from the 257 cases reported in 2012 — which represented a rather dramatic decline of 15.2 percent from 2011's total of 303 cases.

Owing to the species» dramatic decline, a recovery program was developed and instituted in 2007 by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service.

------------ PS: The Global Coral Reef Alliance has documented dramatic declines in coral reefs caused by global warming of surface waters, using satellite data of of global coral reefs and sea surface temperatures.

A dramatic decline in the ability of the Earth to soak up man - made emissions of carbon dioxide, and a corresponding acceleration in the rate of increase of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, have been detected for the first time by scientists.

In the more adverse «disaster» scenario — which entails vast deforestation, dramatic biodiversity declines and increasing extreme weather — the global index falls by 15 percent, with the deepest losses felt in poor regions.

Sushi and sashimi lovers take note: Overfishing has caused a dramatic decline in the bluefish tuna population, with the species at risk for extinction in some areas, according to a series of studies by the Census of Marine Life and other researchers.

Indeed, the report challenges a common belief that America's dramatic natural gas boom — made possible by the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of shale gas wells — is the main factor in the decline of energy - related emissions.

Although the Arctic Ocean is typically mostly covered by ice, both the thickness and extent of summer sea ice in the Arctic have shown a dramatic decline over the past thirty years, satellite measurements have found.

Is the dramatic decline of Arctic sea ice, spurred by manmade global warming, making the weather where we live more extreme?

For example, the dramatic decline of summer sea ice in the Arctic — a loss of ice cover roughly equal to half the area of the continental United States — exacerbates global warming by reducing the reflectivity of Earth's surface and increasing the amount of heat absorbed.

Offshore wind generation may experience the most dramatic declines of all — reports from Europe indicate that prices may fall by as much as 50 percent in the next five years.

In a PowerPoint presentation, he illustrated how electricity pricing has declined by a dramatic 55 percent over the past six years in the mid-Columbia energy market in central Washington, a region dominated by hydropower.

As the current gravitational cycle declines, global temperatures will begin cooling during 2008 - 09 with dramatic global cooling by 2023.

I did notice in the graphs that a dramatic drop in sea ice extent is predicted (by CCSM3) to occur around 2030, only to be followed by a «recovery» which lasts about 5 - years or so, before the decline sets in again.

«The solar industry is poised for a rapid decline in costs that will make it a mainstream power option in the next few years, according to a new assessment by the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Prometheus Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Global production of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells, which turn sunlight directly into electricity, has risen sixfold since 2000 and grew 41 percent in 2006 alone... This growth, while dramatic, has been constrained by a shortage of manufacturing capacity for purified polysilicon, the same material that goes into semiconductor chips.

For example, perverse incentives to push viable businesses into solvency may be at work due to increased margins and fees, while lenders engineer «distress» in businesses by restricting credit or revaluing assets and then accelerate the decline by imposing dramatic changes to lending terms.

Business support imposing dramatic changes to lending terms by reason of that «distress», accelerating the client's decline;