Sentences with phrase «change over the coming decades»

Companies will continue to change over the coming decades.

According to the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, climate change over the coming decades is likely to increase rates of allergies, asthma, heart disease and cancer, among other illnesses.

Eight countries in southern Asia — and a quarter of the world's population — face severe environmental and economic disruption as the climate changes over the coming decades, warns the Climate Institute, a think - tank in Washington DC.

These changes enlarged a cold pool of water the penguins rely on for food and breeding — an expansion that could continue as the climate changes over the coming decades, the study's authors said.

While the study suggests past surges in temperature have boosted conflicts, it doesn't necessarily follow that steady warming due to climate change over the coming decades will have the same effect.

These should be protected as «climate refuges» — areas that will experience less change over the coming decades.

This initiative, today led by an Alliance, including science, donors, sponsors and users, is a unique co-design effort to organize and define the science on global environmental change over the coming decades.

This will change over the coming decades and Joy will benefit through rises in commodity production.

LONDON (July 9, 2013)-- The traditional «First — Business — Economy» seating layout of many commercial aircraft is set to change over the coming decade, with premium economy becoming an increasingly important seating class, according to the latest findings from IMS Research, now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS).

Understanding how the tropical forest responds to big droughts and heat waves help us to evaluate the strength of carbon - climate feedback in ESMs, allowing us to better understand and predict climate change over coming decades.

For policy - makers, the speed of climate change over the coming decades matters as much as the total long - term change, since this rate of change will determine whether human societies and natural ecosystems will be able to adapt fast enough to survive.New results indicate a warming rate of about 2.5 C per century over the coming decades (assuming no attempt is made to reduce GHG emissions).

The taiga, the ecosystem in which the Dukha, Mongolia's reindeer herder community, live, is a biodiversity hotspot and has abundant natural resources, but is also one of the regions of Mongolia which could suffer the greatest impacts of climate change over the coming decades.

«The results of the study clearly showed the magnitude of glacier changes over the coming decades is likely to be very large and that [continue reading...]

To demonstrate the importance of accurate attribution of any changes in weather risks for adaptation planning, to avoid «adapting to yesterday's problems» as the balance of external drivers changes over the coming decades.

The accuracy of computer models that predict climate change over the coming decades has been the subject of debate among politicians, environmentalists and even scientists.

The unpleasant reality is that mitigation and adaptation will be incapable of fully contending with the most severe impacts of climate change over the coming decades.

While its role globally is going to change over coming decades, it will still be an essential energy source, particularly to the rapidly industrialising and urbanising economies of Southeast Asia.

The report notes that HFC emissions are growing at 7 % a year and, left unabated, will significantly contribute to climate change over the coming decades.

However, even if either of these scientific predictions are only partially accurate, the world's seas and oceans look set to be subjected to dramatic and potentially catastrophic change over the coming decades and centuries.

Meanwhile, «older households in the South and West regions of the country are already better accommodated for aging in place, with relatively more homes in these regions having basic accessibility features, and this trend is not expected to change over the coming decade.»

Not exact matches

While a lot has changed in the business world over the past several decades, the fundamentals of building a strong business have not, Branson notes: «The principles are the same and still fit what I am good at: finding markets that need shaking up, coming up with ways to make people's lives better, then finding brilliant people to bring it to life.

«Yet, once these devices begin to get into consumers hands and developers launch content that moves beyond the «wow» moment and into uniquely, useful experiences, it will be clear that entertainment, communication, and many enterprise functions will change dramatically over the coming decade as VR / AR evolve.»

The nature of religious television in America can be seen to be a function of the interaction of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because of changes in the relative power and relationships of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.

Over the coming decades we will pursue a series of changes in the human constitution, initially through biotechnology, and guided by critical and creative thinking.»

Napa Supervisors Set Rough Outlines for Winery Rule Changes Napa County's evolving plan to try to keep both wineries and agriculture thriving for decades to come is slowly emerging, with details to be filled in over the coming year...

With Arsenal having had the same manager in charge for over two decades comes certain things like stability (or stagnation) and while other clubs like Chelsea chop and change and you never really know what to expect from them, Arsenal are often accused of having the same old problems season after season.

However, when a hierarchy that's been in place for over two decades is upended, there's an especially high level of uncertainty that comes with the coaching change — no matter who's brought in.

While it has much to recommend it, I ultimately came away from reading the book disappointed at several pieces of advice it gives that seem to ignore critical changes in the thinking of concussion experts over the past decade, including some from Dr. Cantu himself, that detracted from what is otherwise an excellent book.

As mentioned at the start of this guide, fatherhood comes in many forms, and has changed dramatically over the last couple of decades.

That finally changed this week, as we came together to put in place a bold pension reform plan that will save taxpayers more than $ 80 billion over the next three decades.

The GEM network plans to continue to closely monitor tropical forests in the Americas, Africa and Asia over the coming decades, to understand how these forests are affected by changing climate.

But it has proved difficult to predict how events like floods and droughts will change in specific areas over the coming decades.

France Córdova, director of the National Science Foundation, also addressed the forum, saying NSF's agenda over the next decade will come from «10 big ideas» including understanding the changing Artic, leveraging artificial intelligence, harnessing big data, developing quantum enabled technology, studying the microbiome and advancing research about gravitational waves.

The perception that a Ph.D. graduate has to stay in academia has slowly changed over the last decade, she thinks, and «now even coming into a Ph.D., I think students are aware there are options.»

Things have started to change in Flint, but fixing its water system will take years, and its citizens will need continued support in many areas — including nutrition, health care and education — to manage the effects of lead poisoning over the coming decades.

A release of methane in the Arctic could speed the melting of sea ice and climate change with a cost to the global economy of up to $ 60 trillion over coming decades, according to a paper published in the journal Nature.

«We are in the midst of a major environmental change that will continue to stress corals over the coming decades, so the lesson from this study is that there are these systems such as coral reefs that are sensitive to environmental change and can go through this kind of wholesale collapse in response to these environmental changes,» Cobb said.

Wildfires across the western United States have been getting bigger and more frequent over the last 30 years — a trend that could continue as climate change causes temperatures to rise and drought to become more severe in the coming decades, according to new research.

This is expected to rise in many regions over the coming decades and could reduce or even negate the beneficial effects of higher CO2 (see Climate change warning over food production).

«One of the most wonderful changes that has come to NASA over the last decade is the way they share images with the public,» says Lakdawalla, who explains that once upon a time, data would be sent back from missions for use only by scientists, who might publish a paper months later with a smattering of images.

Over the long term, however, scientists agree: As climate change messes with weather patterns, California will likely experience longer and more severe droughts in the coming decades, threatening the sustainability of the state's main water supply system.

«[The next ice age is] not worth worrying about compared to immediate concerns about damaging human - caused climate change expected over the coming decades if no action is taken to mitigate this likelihood.»

In over a decade of working with a wide array of people it appears that changing load position is a less drastic change to complexity than body position when it comes to lower body movements.

Over the last few decades, we have seen denim trends fluctuate, come and go and change.

WHY: Over the past decade, Michael Mann has come to care more about the look of his films than what they're trying to say, and that hasn't changed with «Blackhat.»

We are reminded of how rapidly the world has changed over the past decade by a news reporter — heard in the background — marveling that this unprecedented scoop has come from «an organization that didn't exist 5 years ago: WikiLeaks.»

When it comes to sex and how babies are made, and love and relationships, nothing much has changed over the past decades if not hundreds of years.

Over the coming decades, ports are likely to experience higher sea levels and storm surges due to climate change, as well as other direct and indirect impacts.

Assume it is somehow shown that the UHI is.2 C of.6 C and it all occurred in the decade of 1996 to 2006 indicating that only the most modest of the models was close to coming correct and that all those models so rigorously derived from other sources had errors of 33 % for a decade and a cumalitve error of 2c over a century and humans needed to be concerned with.4 C TOTAL change.

As the consequences of climate change become increasingly apparent, I am optimistic that over the coming decades most of the countries of the world will see it in their interest to maximize their efforts.