Sentences with phrase «change affects regions»

Given the rapid climatic changes affecting the region, the identification of taxa and geographic areas in the Southern Ocean that are likely to be the most affected by climate and oceanographic changes should, therefore, be a major priority to enable the best use of limited funds and resources and to highlight the early signs of any changes.

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Climate change has the potential to seriously affect some regions» water resources, and drought is just one way that can happen.

Most major domestic airlines and several cruise lines have said they are relaxing change policies for pregnant travelers with existing reservations to an affected region.

As a side note, it is worth noting that changes in contract size affected volume and open interest on the Korea Exchange, one of the region's largest derivatives markets.

Another factor that affected tree planting practices was the adoption of the «Clouds of Change» report for a sustainable region by the Greater Vancouver Regional District.

Post-anaerobic treatment steps can also further increase water quality for extensive recycling, which is also becoming particularly relevant to countries and entire regions suffering drought or increasing affected by climate change, including South - Western USA, Australia, Africa, Southern Europe and South - Eastern and Eastern Asia.

Located at the junction of the Delta and the Bay, the park offers an ideal vantage of how climate change, water policy and natural fluctuations in the weather and currents affect our region.

A second study, «Arteriolosclerosis that affects multiple brain regions,» appears in a recent issue of the journal Brain, and looks at small blood vessels in patients with HS - Aging and describes a specific change, called «arteriolosclerosis,» which is present in patients with HS - Aging.

The changes in density probably mean that these brain regions are not functioning normally, but Mackey doesn't know why these regions in particular were affected.

She has had experiences with reporters who thought the scientific community «didn't know anything» when she expressed caveats and uncertainty around a complex topic (such as how mosquito - borne diseases in the U.S. - Mexico border region may be affected by climate change).

Because the Cascade Mountains, which transect the region, are not as steep as the Rocky Mountains, they have more area that is affected by changes in temperature.

The new IPCC report spells out how climate change will affect regions of the world — here's our guide to the main impacts this century, and some coping tips

Two of the antibodies in the MB - 003 cocktail target a related region of the Ebola virus glycoprotein, and thus are more susceptible to localized changes affecting multiple antibodies.

«This study demonstrates the negative impact of climate change, which may be more dramatic among the warmer and more populated areas of the planet, and in some cases disproportionately affect poorer regions of the world.

But exactly how these slight changes to the modern human sequence affected the functioning of these genome regions remains to be determined.

To see how increased temperatures might contribute to the reductions in the river's flow that have been observed since 2000, Udall and Overpeck reviewed and synthesized 25 years of research about how climate and climate change have and will affect the region and how temperature and precipitation affect the river's flows.

Ice loss caused by climate change is opening up the Arctic, and it looks like the competition to take advantage has the potential to destroy the region and affect the entire planet.

They then mapped the regions where those species with a high intrinsic risk are most affected today by human impact and climate change.

An increase in the width of the tropics could increase the area affected by tropical storms (hurricanes), or could change climatological tropical cyclone development regions and tracks.

But while wildfires are estimated to contribute about 18 percent of the total PM2.5 emissions in the U.S., many questions remain on how these emissions will affect human populations, including how overall air quality will be affected, how these levels will change under climate change, and which regions are to most likely to be impacted.

Their analyses suggest that the Wenchuan quake did affect the Lushan quake in an immediate sense by changing the overall background seismicity in the region.

Further study showed that the region of human DNA that contained the single nucleotide change associated with blondness specifically affected the expression of KITLG only in hair follicles.

«We saw so many people affected by the earthquake that were sleeping outside without any shelter from mosquitoes, so we were worrying that the region's changing climate could facilitate the spread of diseases,» she said.

With a deadly avalanche, it appears climate change may now be affecting a once stable region of the Tibetan Plateau.

Two pieces examine how climate change is affecting marine biological systems: Schofield et al. (p. 1520) illustrate and discuss the role of ocean - observation techniques in documenting how marine ecosystems in the West Antarctic Peninsula region are evolving, and Hoegh - Guldberg and Bruno (p. 1523) present a more global view of the ways in which marine ecosystems are being affected by rapid anthropogenic variations.

Knowing that is key to understanding how climate change is affecting methane releases in the polar region, said Shakhova.

While most of the region endured dry, freezing weather, pockets of «refugia,» or vegetated areas not affected by climate change, remained scattered along the Bering land bridge throughout the LGM period.

«This means one of the most important questions of our time is how climate change is affecting the polar regions,» explains Dr. Marcello Passaro of the TUM German Geodetic Research Institute.

Study co-author Nigel Bamford, a pediatric neurologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, says that if similar changes occur in humans, it will indicate that an effective way to fight addiction may be to design therapies that target the affected area — the striatum, a forebrain region that controls movement but also has been linked to habit - forming behavior.

«Higher temperatures in the Earth's interior before the GOE may have affected the way that carbon was released into the diamond forming regions beneath the Earth's continental plates and may be evidence of a fundamental change in tectonic processes.

When comparing the scan results for brain activity before treatment and after a year of stimulation, the researchers found that there were changes in the regions linked to anorexia, suggesting that deep brain stimulation was able to directly affect the related brain circuits.

During development, chromosomes are subject to chemical changes that don't affect the nucleotide sequence but can turn genes on or off; the best known example is methylation, in which a methyl group is attached to specific DNA regions.

«These tropical species have evolved in warm regions, so there may be an expectation that climate change won't affect them,» Pau said.

Mountain ranges such as the Pyrenees are also subject to climate variations, however climate change does not affect all regions equally, hence the need for in - depth, long - term observation of these changes.

To date, Singer and Michaelides have used it to identify real climate change over a broad region, but they are in the process of coupling STORM to a runoff model to explore scenarios of climate change and how they might really affect the magnitude and the frequency of runoff.

The researchers combined data gathered from the buoys between 2002 and 2015 with satellite estimates of ice thickness in this region to better understand changes affecting the Arctic Ocean in recent years.

«Changing climate in the polar regions can affect rest of world far quicker than previously thought.»

According to a study published in the journal Paleobiology, as weather patterns in the region changed, the land started to dry out and affect the animals» food supply.

While climate change is affecting Antarctica in a variety of ways, this week's event does not signal that the region is entering a new state.

Changes in the regulatory region of a single gene may have had a profound affect on human evolution.

The MLTI region is important because it is very sensitive to changes in the Sun's energy output as well as human activities that affect the atmosphere.

Scientists are still only just beginning to understand the myriad mechanisms that control the seemingly dramatic melting observed in regions of West Antarctica, and how climate change is affecting all the moving parts.

Of course, the U.S. Midwest is not the only region of the world that is being affected by climate change.

The silicate + CO2 - > different silicate + carbonate chemical weathering rate tends to increase with temperature globally, and so is a negative feedback (but is too slow to damp out short term changes)-- but chemical weathering is also affected by vegetation, land area, and terrain (and minerology, though I'm not sure how much that varies among entire mountain ranges or climate zones)-- ie mountanous regions which are in the vicinity of a warm rainy climate are ideal for enhancing chemical weathering (see Appalachians in the Paleozoic, more recently the Himalayas).

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The RCU Africa relocation serves to strengthen the implementation of the convention in the region most affected by desertification, drought and the effects of climate change.

«We expect to find that many genetic changes causing a disorder are within regulatory regions, or switches, that affect how much protein is produced or when the protein is produced, rather than affecting the structure of the protein itself.

NASA is also involved in an international effort called the High Mountain Asia Project, which seeks to understand how climate change is affecting glaciers in the Himalayas and water resources for more than 1 billion people in that region.

«The region is profoundly affected by climate change — including loss of sea ice, acidification of the ocean, and increased access for industries that pose significant risks to the ocean environment.»