Sentences with phrase «change over the planet»

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Officials from 195 countries, from giants like the U.S. to the tiniest impoverished states, agreed on the world's first global climate - change deal on Saturday evening, committing the world to drastically cutting back carbon emissions and transforming the planet's energy mix over the next several decades.

«All of the information of how a planet formed is still there, whereas with much older planets it could be harder to [work out] how it formed, or how it got there because it could have changed over billions of years.»

«For our civilization to become a new kind of entity on the planet, we need to live comfortably, over the long haul, with world - changing technology,» David H. Grinspoon, an astrobiologist at the Library of Congress, said Dec. 12 here at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

The challenge in prompting change — broadening the classic definition of «infrastructure,» and investing in initiatives aimed at adapting to a turbulent planet — is heightened by partisan divisions over climate policy and development.

While this is bad news for the planet, it's good news for climate change scientists who have — for the last two decades — puzzled over warming trends in ocean surface temperatures for nearly 20 years.

Wildfire seasons all over the planet are lasting longer than they have in the past and burning wider swaths of land, and Earth's changing climate is to blame, according to a new report.

The organic model we are suggesting pictures reality as composed of multitudes of embodied beings who presently inhabit a planet that has evolved over billions of years through a process of dynamic change marked by law and novelty into an intricate, diverse, complex, multi-leveled reality, all radically interrelated and interdependent.

«THE END OF DAYS is near» January 1213 the earth will wobble causing earthquakes, lava will spill all over the earth the oceans will rise changing the topography, the atmosphere will be consumed, our planet will die and orbit just like our mom, a gusted, dust, desolate planet.

Earth itself would not support most of the life on this planet... enter the cytoplasm, which over many million years, slowly changed the atmosphere into one that was oxygen rich.

But The Great Quake is an elegant showcase of how the progressive work of numerous scientists over time — all the while questioning, debating, changing their minds — can be pieced together into an idea that reshapes how we see and understand the planet.

Now, researchers have come up with a way to more quickly gauge a big quake's magnitude and thus provide faster, more accurate tsunami warnings: by measuring the miniscule changes in Earth's gravitational field that are generated when massive slabs of the planet's crust shift by dozens of meters over the course of a few minutes.

For example, they want to measure the planet's inventory of stable noble gases, such as xenon and krypton, which change little in abundance over billions of years and hold clues to planetary origins.

The Mekong River courses over some 2,700 miles of dramatically changing terrain, traverses six Southeast Asian countries from China's Tibetan Plateau to the South China Sea, supports one of the planet's most productive inland fisheries and continues to reshape a region it has defined for thousands...

«The MAVEN mission tells us that Mars lost substantial amounts of its atmosphere over time, changing the planet's habitability,» said David Brain, a MAVEN co-investigator and a professor at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

The images, taken over a 10 - hour period, created two massive maps of the entire planet, allowing scientists to measure the speeds of Jupiter's winds, identify different events in its atmosphere, and track changes in the outer layers of the planet.

The opportunity to study discs that existed so long ago could help reveal how the rate of planet formation across the universe has changed over time, says Mentuch.

The new image is the first in a series of annual portraits of the Solar System's outer planets, which will give us new glimpses of these remote worlds, and help scientists to study how they change over time.

Applications include showing how the planet's surface changes over time, including through tectonic activity and sea level change; plotting the trajectories of ballistic missiles and satellite orbits; and making topographic maps and GPS systems more accurate.

Capable of collecting nine times as much light as any other optical telescope, it could discover Earth - like planets in the habitable zones around other stars and search for changes over time in the fundamental physical constants.

Seeing the sharp declines in parts of the ocean I have come to know and love reminds me that as we look into new ways to protect our planet from climate change, we need to look again at the natural machinery that already works, that developed over four and a half billion years, and do everything we can to restore its functions.

The questions of whether Venus is geologically active and how the planet has resurfaced over the past billion years have major implications for interior dynamics and climate change.

Studying how the dwarf planet's climate changed over time shows it once had the right conditions for liquid to flow on its surface - and may still have buried lakes today

«There must have been regional climate and chemical conditions that varied in time and space,» he says, adding that this would occur as the tilt of Mars's spin axis changed over tens of thousands of years, a wobble caused by the lack of a massive moon to stabilise the planet.

If so, observing Pluto will help explain how the chemistry of planets changes over time — and in particular, how Earth developed a composition that is friendly to life.

«MAVEN's findings reveal what is happening in Mars» atmosphere now, but over time this type of loss contributed to the global change from a wetter environment to the dry planet we see today,» said Rahmati.

Thanks to this pioneering research, astrophysicists can now begin to explore how weather systems on other planets outside our solar system change over time.

One possibility is that the short time scales over which Wolf 1061c's orbit changes could be enough that it could actually cool the planet off, Kane said.

BOULDER — Drastic, economy - changing cuts to greenhouse gas emissions will spare the planet half the trauma expected over the next century as the Earth warms.

Severe hurricanes, storm surges and an increase in the number of icebergs are just some of the changes planet Earth has experienced due to warming oceans over the last 20 years, according to a new report.

But David Armstrong at the University of Warwick, UK, and colleagues scrutinised four years of data from the Kepler satellite and saw that the brightness of planet HAT - P - 7b changed over time.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

But since the matter that comprises large bodies such as the planets and the Moon has changed over time due to thermal processes, these bodies can not provide us with a pristine record of the solar system.

«The better resolution of the new map helps interpret how the crust of the planet changed over Mars» history in many regions.»

The spacecraft will take critical measurements of the Martian upper atmosphere to help scientists understand climate change over the Red Planet's history.

Based on our results, the massive changes that Arctic has already undergone (and will encounter over the 21st century) may have important «far field» effects on our planet's climate.»

Analysing the new shape alone will tell us a lot about the otherwise impossible to see internal structure of the planet and how it changes over time,» Prabal Saxena of George Mason University, said.

Given the ample evidence that change over time is a crucial property of planets, including our own, of stars, of galaxies and of the Universe as a whole, it is important for the nation's school children to learn about the great age of, and changes in, astronomical systems, as well as their present properties.

Each planet therefore possesses seasons; changes to the climate over the course of its year.

«Gravity is the force that binds stars, planets, and galaxies together,» said Scott Ransom, a co-author and astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Va. «Though it appears on Earth to be constant and universal, there are some theories in cosmology that suggest gravity may change over time or may be different in different corners of the Universe.»

Studies conducted by our group have also shown that exoplanets orbiting really close to their host star have very dynamic atmospheres, meaning that they change continuously, producing clouds of different sizes, even whole cloud systems, all over the planet's surface.

We know from hot Jupiters that Jupiter - like planets can change their orbital distance over time, so there is no guarantee that the orbital distances we are observing now are the same as when the planet formed.

This symposium brings together experts across disciplines to better understand how planets like Earth, Venus and Mars have changed over time — from their atmospheric composition, geology, chemical composition and interactions with the Sun — to help understand what it takes to support life and whether it could exist beyond our solar system.

Understanding the evolution of planets in our own solar system, such as Earth and Venus, could provide important clues on how the environments of planets change over time and how that impacts their ability to support life.

The MARCI medium angle camera will take 40 m (130 ft) resolution images in eight colors, allowing us to characterize surface properties and changes in dust cover over large parts of the planet.

Over the last 40 years, medical studies have led discoveries that could change the current health care system, the food system, and benefit the planet's eco-system.

Here in Atlanta there is no shortage of Toyota / Lexus shops capable of great work Over the years we've noticed very little correlation between a shop's ability to do great work and the overall work product of the shop Having the ability is only part of the equation Each technician has to want to do great work For this they have to love what they do In addition to being passionate about our work we're also pretty passionate about the brand we work on — believing that Toyota and Lexus make the most rugged dependable vehicles on the planet And while we don't expect every customer to share this level of passion for their Toyota or Lexus we have found our customers to be a bit more discerning in how their vehicle is treated — whether it's here for an oil change or a frame - off restoration

NPR's Planet Money team did a really good report on how the distribution of wealth in the US has changed over the past 40 years.

Rich with ancient historic sights, museums, architecture, boutique shops, and the finest dining, Mykonos is a town that has changed very little over the years, yet still remains one of the trendiest places on the planet.

Oceans brings together the work of over 20 artists who explore the cultural, political, and biological dimensions of the oceans, examining the effects of human - made issues, such as climate change and rising sea - levels, and reimagining human's relationship to the planet.

Obsessive rainbow - inspired doodles take over the planet; transcending partisan debates about climate change.