Sentences with phrase «changes affecting their community»

I think it best to leave it to the people we met to decide whether the changes affecting their community mean a loss of culture.

Measures, he said, would include developing new efficiency standards for buildings and appliances, expanding energy sources like solar and wind on public lands, and bolstering climate - change affected communities.

Climate change affects communities from the Arctic to the Andes.

identifying current social and legislative changes affecting the community and your workplace

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But when persecutions became intermittent, and some areas were not affected by them at all, the needs of the community changed.

«Just three weeks ago at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, they called for richer countries do more to cut their own carbon emissions and increase their support to the most vulnerable and worst affected communities and countries who are least able to protect themselves from climate change.»

These sanctuaries provide insight on how climate change will affect their communities, bringing a big global problem to a local and more manageable scale.

In order to affect change, the first task is to take the initiative to pull together of sphere of people who are interested and concerned in the same things, and to then start conversing with the schools or feeder patterns in your community about how to help them improve in the areas of your concern.

Eventually maps of the 60 neighborhood parks and 13 community parks will be available, as well as program changes affected by inclement weather, job opportunities and e-mail services.

We will continue to shed light on pressing issues that affect maternity care like evidence - based are, obstetric violence, informed consent, access to midwifery care, access to vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), and racial and economic disparities, while helping local communities make the changes that best work for their own populations.»

I'm proud of what I have accomplished but I know to affect real and lasting change in our community, I have to demand our message be heard in Albany.»

«We saw this community disrupted so tremendously by something that was directly affected by climate change,» De Blasio noted.

Prudence Heston of Salt Air Farm in Cutchogue said changes to the special events law affected a «tremendous number of businesses in this community» and people wanted the opportunity to talk about it.

Political and societal change is often a slow, grinding process but the travelling community has a number of eloquent representatives who are fighting for greater political awareness of the issues affecting them.

Crain's New York Business brings the New York business community together with political and elected officials about key topics, changes and insights that affect the economy.

We monitor demographic, economic, and political changes and anticipate how they may affect older adults in our community.

Miner, a Democrat, said the event will enable community members to tell elected officials how the proposed tax code changes will affect them.

to maintain positive changes made in the [latest] map, further improve boundaries to reflect demographic changes and in particular address outstanding issues affecting minority voting rights and Asian American communities.»

Roberta finds that state government provides more opportunity to «change things for the better and do work that affects [her] immediate community.»

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).

Over the past 20 years, evidence that humans are affecting the climate has accumulated inexorably, and with it has come ever greater certainty across the scientific community in the reality of recent climate change and the potential for much greater change in the future.

In a recent paper published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Woolbright describes how populations and communities like these, known as climate relicts, can help scientists understand how ecological communities are affected by climate change.

Kolker and his colleagues, meanwhile, are using genomic analyses to look at changes in bacterial communities in soils as proxies to understand how the wetlands may be affected by oil.

Cleaning and greening vacant lots might be just enough of a change, Kaplan says, to help build a sense of ownership and neighborhood identity in the affected communities so they can come together and push for larger improvements like better schools and sanitation — and remain in the neighborhood to enjoy them.

This lake is the Great Lake most impacted by summer hypoxia — the loss of oxygen at the bottom that affects fish and other living communities — and, according to Dr. Twiss, is a good sentinel for climate change.

The researchers were interested not just in how the clinical trial participants» behavior changed, but also in how these efforts affected the community as a whole, said Thomas Coates, Project Accept's overall principal investigator and director of UCLA's Center for World Health.

Predicting the impact of climate change on ecological communities is tricky, but predicting the impact of El Niño, the cyclical warming in the Pacific Ocean that affects temperature and rainfall around the globe, is even trickier.

The product affected certain gut bacteria without changing the global composition of the microbial community.

Instead, Catholic leaders like Wenski and Carolyn Woo, who heads Catholic Relief Services in the United States, chose to focus on adaptation efforts and providing relief to communities that are affected by the changing climate and other environmental hazards.

In a statement emailed to ScienceInsider, Lochhead said: «I will be happy to meet representatives of the science community and reassure them that these changes will not affect research as it is currently carried out in Scotland.»

That's especially important since many decisions that will affect how communities fare in a changing climate will be made locally, said Rosina Bierbaum, dean of University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment.

Some gaps in the research include getting a better understanding of the distribution of species and habitats, understanding how marine populations respond to stressors and looking at how changes in climate can affect individual species and ecological communities.

The new study is one of the first to monitor recent large - scale glacier change in Bolivia, to better understand how receding glaciers could affect communities in the country.

Climate change will disproportionately affect low - income communities and some communities of color (Ch.

Several reasonable explanations arise given these results: (1) all players were exercising, and exercise produces predictable changes in skin habitat conditions that are likely to affect bacterial communities over time; (2) players were acquiring microbial transients from the built environment; and (3) players were coming into repeated physical contact with their teammates and those from opposing teams, often using the sampled area of their upper arms, and potentially sharing portions of their skin microbiomes.

The changes in sea level can have a dramatic impact locally on coral communities, but it's how those warmer, higher waters affect the atmosphere that really matters globally.

Jansson had long been curious about how these rapid temperature changes were affecting the underground microbial community, and whether these changes had any surprising side effects.

The articles on the SAHFOS site (http://192.171.163.165/) bring up the same concerns, namely that anthropogenic climate change could affect plankton and these changes in the plankton communities could cascade through the entire ocean ecosystem, and show that these changes in the plankton communities have already started.

As Arctic temperatures soar, EJF prepares to meet the Sami communities affected by climate change

For my post-doctoral project, I decided to focus on the question, «to what extent can atmospheric pollutants, such as CO2 and ozone, exert a selective effect on woody plant species, and how are the resulting changes in the genetic composition of the plant community likely to affect the animals that feed on them?»

Such models focus on changes in the distribution or extent of species» «climate space», but the broad range of climate - change - related stresses that affect population ecology and physiology and that may have consequences at ecosystem and community levels [12] are not fully reflected.

Study of Arctic shrews, parasites indicates how climate change may affect ecosystems and communities

Because everyone in this global community will be affected by climate change, it will be for our own benefit if we manage to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in such a way that global warming is limited to less than 2 degrees Celsius», says Prof. Ulf Riebesell, marine biologist at GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and coordinator of BIOACID.

Changes in coral communities also affect the species that depend on them, such as the fish and invertebrates that rely on live coral for food, shelter, or recruitment habitat.

A recent study may be changing the way in which the medical community looks at how strenuous exercise affects the immune system.

The Youth Forum exists to support young people to affect positive change for themselves and for their communities.

A serious journalist with grand investigative ambitions and a sharp sense of community engagement, Chubbuck sought to report on issues that affected lives (such as a zoning change that would affect residents» medical coverage).

Children, youth and students have played an important role as agents of change, participating actively in discussions that affect their future, advocating for a transformation in their learning environments and bringing the messages of sustainability and global citizenship home to parents and communities.

Also, changes in the size and selection process of the Board of Education affected the Board's recognition of black community interests.

In empowering children to act as agents of change, Child - to - Child helps children identify issues and actions they can take to affect the conditions in which they, their families and their community live.