Sentences with phrase «by environmental trends»

«Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» says Brown, President and Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based independent environmental research organization.

«Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» 6.

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Granted, miners have been pressured by Beijing to curtail production as part of the government's enforcement of tougher environmental protection policies, but the decline in output is part of a downward trend we're seeing across the board, especially among major producers.

This reflects a social trend of environmental focus as well as anticipated increases in spending by governments and other enterprises on this kind of technology.

Worse, it validates a trend among the environmental movement in Canada, spearheaded by David Suzuki, to dismiss economists as the enemy of the environment.

And they added, «When asked which current food trend will be the hottest menu trends 10 years from now, environmental sustainability topped the list, followed by local sourcing, health - nutrition, children's nutrition and gluten - free cuisine.»

When asked which current food trend will be the hottest menu trends 10 years from now, environmental sustainability topped the list, followed by local sourcing, nutrition and ethnic cuisines and flavors.

The trend worries many local environmental groups, such as California's Surfrider Foundation or Australia's Nature Conservation Council of NSW, which are concerned about protecting nearby ecosystems by safely disposing the concentrated brine left from the process as well as increased fossil - fuel use and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions.

For the latest study, researchers aggregated investment in environmental incentives at a national level for the first time, and, by comparing them to broad trends in environmental outcomes, found that paying the agriculture industry to help the environment seems to be working.

Such a systematic and long - term monitoring programme of stranded animals facilitates the investigation of spatio - temporal trends in disease, causes of mortality and exposure to environmental pollutants largely inaccessible by other methods.

While a great deal of research has explored the economic, political and environmental issues that will be affected by increasing urbanization, far less has examined how this trend has impacted China from a social standpoint.

Investing in the energy sector can be riskier than other types of investment activities because of a range of factors, including price fluctuation caused by real and perceived inflationary trends and political developments, and the cost assumed by energy companies in complying with environmental safety regulations.

Murka, co-founded by Anton Krasnyy and Max Polyakov, who is also a managing partner at Noosphere Ventures is always trying to watch out for current gaming trends and Nat Geo collaboration on environmental project is no exception.

But sustaining further declines in childbearing and increases in life expectancy will require continued efforts by governments to improve access to good health care, and both trends could be threatened by environmental or social deterioration.

Below you can read my missive, with e-mail shorthand slightly cleaned up, followed by an exchange this query triggered between Vaclav Smil, the University of Manitoba analyst of just about every global risk and trend, and Lester Brown, who heads the Earth Policy Institute and has for decades warned of economic and environmental unraveling.

A paper published in Environmental Research Letters by Rahmstorf, Foster, and Cazenave (2012) applied the methodology of Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), using the statistical technique of multiple regression to filter out the influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and solar and volcanic activity from the global surface temperature data to evaluate the underlying long - term primarily human - caused trend.

Some companies in these sectors, either affected by new environmental regulations or driven by profit or competitiveness motives, already have started to adjust to the new greening trend in the market.

A trend on the rise across the industry is the requirement for electronic recyclers to be certified by an accredited third party, which helps them conform the recycling process to a set standard of privacy and environmental compliance.

The Climate Data Store (CDS) at the heart of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) infrastructure, will be presented by Baudouin Raoult, principal software architect and strategist at the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), at a workshop on 22nd Sept in Paris the focus of which will be to discuss trends of the current global landscape of e-Infrastructures for environmental data management and exploitation to enhance collaboration on a global level in support of sharing research and public sector data.

A paper published in Environmental Research Letters by Rahmstorf, Foster, and Cazenave (2012) applied the methodology of Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), using the statistical technique of multiple regression to filter out the influences of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and solar and volcanic activity from the global surface temperature data to evaluate the underlying long - term human - caused trend.

This declining trend in EPA enforcement numbers was highlighted in a six - month report by the Environmental Integrity Project, and the latest numbers released by the Trump administration and analyzed in today's report, seem to indicate that trend will continue.

As environmental defenders, Goldman Prize winners have also been impacted by this alarming trend.

A paper by Ross McKitrick, an economics professor at the University of Guelph, and Patrick Michaels, an environmental studies professor at the University of Virginia, concludes that half of the global warming trend from 1980 to 2002 is caused by Urban Heat Island.

The muzzling trend would be worrisome enough on its own, but it has been accompanied in recent months by a furious round of federal budget cuts to basic research — particularly in the field of environmental science — and increasingly ferocious rhetorical attacks on environmental groups.

Analysis by the law firm confirmed that corporate shareholder proposals aimed at addressing environmental issues were common in 2016, a trend that will continue to keep the pressure on fossil fuel interests like Chevron and ExxonMobil during the Trump years — and make it hard for the SEC to avoid addressing the issue.

But the cost difference has narrowed, and if the trend continues, recycling could end up being cheaper than trash disposal within five years, according to an analysis released on Wednesday by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.

According to the 1989 article, «A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.

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It may be a badly polluting and dysfunctional part - but it is still affected by the same environmental trends and faces the same environmental risks as everyone else.

The team — led by Dole, Hoerling, and Judith Perlwitz from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder — sifted through long - term observations and results from 22 global climate models, looking for trends that might help explain the extraordinarily high temperatures in western Russia during the 2010 summer.

This suggests to me that the long term trend is due to an increase in radiative forcing from anthropogenic emissions (partly offset by environmental uptake), but the short term variations are due to the modulation of the NNFI by the ENSO (which limits the partial uptake of anthropogenic emissions).

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Efficient energy use has been a rising trend in the United States due to increasing energy costs and the environmental problems caused by greenhouse gas emissions.