Sentences with phrase «change ravages»

As climate change ravages the environment and the ethics of our human - centric relationship with other species is increasingly questioned, Huyghe's film is a hallucinogenic lament for a ravaged past and a grim future — one that will only be saved if we insist on new ways of interacting with the planet.

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Extending that approach to the social sciences more generally could help us develop forecasting tools to assess a whole range of problems threatening human society — not just the ravages of the markets, but wars, disease and demographic change.

Previous studies by others — notably by Mars, Inc., maker of M&M s — showed that dark chocolate triggers a number of beneficial changes that would appear to slow the ravages of atherosclerosis (see «Chocolate hearts» at http://www.sciencenews.org/20000318/bob2.asp).

But since they solved that riddle, another has arisen: Can a species whose migration takes it across two dozen countries and through virtually every ecosystem in the Western Hemisphere survive the ravages of climate change?

In 2009, his speech described that renewable energy would «transform our economy, protect our security and save our planet from the ravages of climate change.»

While countless scientific reports have documented the ravages of climate change on oceanic life, a survey of the researchers who wrote them provides a silver lining: An overwhelming majority noticed examples of sea life withstanding climate change.

«Let's be frank: Neither of us profits from a growing dependence on foreign oil, nor can we spare our people from the ravages of climate change unless we cooperate,» Obama said.

And the National Sea Grant College program pays for university - based efforts to shore up coastal economies and communities against the ravages of climate change and extreme weather.

Will precast concrete emerge as the building material of choice for housing construction in a world increasingly threatened by the ravages of climate change?

No Country for Old Men — the title comes from William Butler Yeats» «Sailing to Byzantium» — is really about the terrible ravages of change, and the way that only old men, men who have lived a while, can see it.

It is instructive to examine in greater detail one of the most successful and accomplished women painters of all time, Rosa Bonheur (1822 - 1899), whose work, despite the ravages wrought upon its estimation by changes of taste and a certain admitted lack of variety, still stands as an impressive achievement to anyone interested in the art of the 19th century and in the history of taste generally.

It is instructive to examine in greater detail one of the most successful and accomplished women painters of all time, Rosa Bonheur (1822 — 1899), whose work, despite the ravages wrought upon its estimation by changes of taste and a certain admitted lack of variety, still stands as an impressive achievement to anyone interested in the art of the 19th century and in the history of taste generally.

``... «What might happen is that the sun gives the planet a welcome respite from the ravages of man - made climate change — though for how long, nobody knows.

(05/06/2013) The Hawaiian silversword (Argyroxyphium sandwicense), a beautiful, spiny plant from the volcanic Hawaiian highlands may not survive the ravages of climate change, according to a new study in Global Change Bichange, according to a new study in Global Change BiChange Biology.

And the highly elite driven system humankind is under isn't intending to change anything any time soon and when pressure falls on the basic necessities and the weather ravages homes and crops, more wars and migrants are inevitable.

Pope Francis has sounded an urgent call to protect our most vulnerable sisters and brothers from the worst ravages of climate change.

«But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy.

«Climate - Change Activists Call for Tax Policies to Discourage Childbirth --» Climate - change activists are mobilizing to cut the birthrate, arguing that richer nations should discourage people having children in order to protect them from the ravages of global warming and reduce emissions.»&Change Activists Call for Tax Policies to Discourage Childbirth --» Climate - change activists are mobilizing to cut the birthrate, arguing that richer nations should discourage people having children in order to protect them from the ravages of global warming and reduce emissions.»&change activists are mobilizing to cut the birthrate, arguing that richer nations should discourage people having children in order to protect them from the ravages of global warming and reduce emissions.»»

Barack Obama boarded a flight to Paris, where he said he will reaffirm the US's support for France in the face of «barbaric attacks» as well as forge a deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and avert the worst ravages of climate change.

And remind everyone who represents you at every level of government that sheltering future generations against the ravages of climate change is a prerequisite for your vote.

Saving the atmosphere from the ravages of climate change is a global imperative.

It was clear that — after 12 decades of partition, 6 years of Nazi terror, and 44 years of Russian and Communist subjugation — few Poles are in any mood to have their lives, liberties, and living standards dictated by the European Union and United Nations, under the guise of «protecting the planet» from the supposed «ravages» of «cataclysmic» global warming (or «climate change» or «climate disruption» or whatever the catch - phrase of the week might be).

If the coal binge continues, global climate targets will almost certainly be out of reach, and much of the good done by coal will be undone by the ravages of climate change.

The principal motivation for his research is to identify ways and means of reducing extinctions and mitigating the worst ravages of global change.

They tell you that they have science on their side, that climate change is real and is happening, and that they have witnessed its ravages for themselves.

«These predictions are a treasure trove for those who are fighting to protect one of the world's most magnificent and important ecosystems from the ravages of climate change,» said Erik Solheim, head of UN Environment.

An Inuit delegation representing communities from five nations will go to Washington to confront lawmakers about the ravages of climate change...