Sentences with phrase «degradation of soil»

When managed improperly, this land creates greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the livestock themselves, as well as from the degradation of soil.

Large scale biofuel production runs counter to urgently addressing climate change and threatens to cause more deforestation, hunger, human rights abuses, and degradation of soil and water.

You Dr. Price was very concerned with the degradation of soil on the planet.

Lead author Dr Iain Gould of the Lancaster University Environment Centre, said: «We only need to look at historical examples such the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s to see that globally, the physical degradation of our soil presents a serious threat to human well - being.

So the passing on of this ability to other bacterial groups can be very advantageous in terms of the degradation of soil pollutants.

Chemically intensive farming methods can produce short - term benefits for farmers, but they result in the degradation of soil over time, increasing the susceptibility of plants to pests and diseases and requiring ever greater applications of fertilizer in the long - run.

Thus far its applications to agriculture have speeded up the erosion and degradation of soils.

Growers using these products are advised to limit their use based on the potential for regular applications to result in the degradation of soils.

Consistent degradation of soils means that hundreds of millions of people around the globe will likely become displaced due to the lack of an ability to grow food in the coming decades.

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Our service of wealth hastens the pollution of the Earth, the exhaustion of resources, the elimination of habitat for other species, the degradation of water, soil, and air.

These are the cycles of nature which result in degradation of wastes and the maintenance of the atmosphere, the water and the soils of the earth.

Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke said that «none of Australia's environmental problems is more serious than the soil degradation... over nearly two - thirds of our continent's arable land» (Brown 1990, p. 60).

As part of the CSO panel we advocated for organic agriculture as a means of farming that increases the resilience of soils to both water stress and nutrient loss and which contributes to combating desertification by preventing soil erosion and land degradation.

Proponents of shade cultivation say environmental problems such as deforestation, pesticide pollution, habitat destruction, and soil and water degradation are the side effects of the practices employed in sun cultivation.

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The main cause of this has been unsustainable agricultural practices contributing to soil erosion and general environmental degradation.

Biodiversity loss, environmental degradation and severe impacts on ecosystem services — which refer to nature's support of wildlife habitat, crop pollination, soil health and other benefits — have not only accompanied conventional farming systems, but have often extended well beyond the boundaries of their fields, such as fertilizer runoff into rivers.

The funds have been awarded to municipalities and Soil and Water Conservation districts to address major sources of water pollution and habitat degradation in dozens of urban, suburban and rural communities.

Monitoring and assessment have so far focused mainly on the symptoms of land degradation and desertification, such as loss of top soil and decreased food production.

Next week's meeting is expected to propose the establishment of a scientific advisory panel on land and soil degradation, akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which advises the convention's sister body on climate change.

Tangible effects nearby also appear: clinking our peat soil by water extraction is also a form of land degradation, leading to more carbon dioxide emissions, and therefore triggering climate change.

Trees of such forests yield a continuous supply of stray litter such as leaves, needles, roots or brushwood, and maintain a constant cool «forest climate,» even during hot summers, which in turn slows down humus degradation by soil microorganisms.

Instead, much of the work on permafrost degradation over the past few decades has focused on the widespread, slow melting of the icy soils from the top down, says Vladimir Romanovsky, a geophysicist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who was not involved in the new study.

The next 10 years were marked by drought, massive herding losses, rapid soil degradation and wave after wave of nomads migrating to the capital of Ulaanbaatar.

«It is unlikely that historically low rates of deforestation can persist in the face of growing pressures to clear land due to increases in population, demand for wood and charcoal, cropping with reduced fallow periods leading to soil degradation, and international interests in large scale land investments for oil, biofuel and other crops,» the study states.

Growers can manage the potential risks linked to extreme rain events and soil degradation by using adaptive strategies such as planting cover crops, using no - till techniques, increasing the biodiversity of grasses and forage and extending crop rotations, Prokopy said.

These problems already play a significant role in many wars and internal conflicts — either directly, as in the sharing of water resources, or indirectly as when populations are displaced because of soil degradation.

The age - old practice of turning the soil before planting a new crop is a leading cause of farmland degradation.

The erosion of the soil and other signs of environmental degradation may have become apparent; in this environment, population levels almost certainly began to pose problems.

In this way, fungi ensure high bacterial diversity in the soil — which can also be beneficial for the degradation of pollutants.

Soil abuse and degradation, excessive deforestation and over-grazing all occurred frequently in the past, sometimes playing a major role in the downfall of civilisations.

Generating three centimeters of top soil takes 1,000 years, and if current rates of degradation continue all of the world's top soil could be gone within 60 years, a senior UN official said

It bothers me greatly that so much of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, not to mention soil degradation problems, are related to the intensive rearing of animals for food.

-- In implementing this subsection, the Administrator, taking into consideration the recommendations of the Advisory Board, may include forest degradation, or soil carbon losses associated with forested wetlands or peatlands, within the meaning of deforestation.

The study was set across a range of soil degradation caused by acid rain, which is a major stressor for sugar maple and a chronic issue in the Adirondacks.

Climate change is causing the widespread thawing and degradation of permafrost, subsurface soil or rock that remains frozen for two or more consecutive years.

It is a commitment to avoid degradation, to move towards sustainable land management and at the same time to massively scale up the rehabilitation of degraded land and soil.

In the Caribbean, unsustainable land management practices are causing soil degradation and damage of natural habitats, contributing to the loss of biodiversity and reduction of natural buffers to droughts and floods.

Root growth improvement of mesquite seedlings and bacterial rhizosphere and soil community changes are induced by inoculation with plant growth - promoting bacteria and promote restoration of eroded desert soil — Cristina Galaviz — Land Degradation and Development

Belarus has become one of the pilot countries to implement projects in land restoration in order to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality by 2030, reversing the processes of land degradation and raising soil fertility and prDegradation Neutrality by 2030, reversing the processes of land degradation and raising soil fertility and prdegradation and raising soil fertility and productivity.

On this WDCD, we would like to remind everyone that threat to soil security unleashed by desertification, land degradation and the effects of drought constitute a peril to securing our common future.

* Passive warming effect on soil microbial community and humic substance degradation in maritime Antarctic region — Dockyu Kim — Journal of Basic Microbiology

The Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM), being the UNCCD National Focal Agency with support and assistance provided by Mr. Eduardo Queblatin, UNCCD LDN consultant, celebrated the World Day by holding a Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Technical Consultation and Stakeholders» Forum.

Even if we consider the impact of environmental degradation on humanity, deforestation has a more significant and immediate impact on local weather, water availability, water quality, and soil erosion than does global climate change from greenhouse gases.

Gu is an author of more than 250 journal publications, books and book chapters on biogeochemical transformation and transport of environmental pollutants, such as mercury and uranium, soil carbon degradation, mineral interfacial interactions and spectroscopic studies.

Estimates show that 795 million people worldwide are chronically undernourished, often as a direct consequence of land degradation, declining soil fertility, unsustainable water use, drought and loss of biodiversity.

In the last 50 years we've seen the rise of genetically modified foods and toxins, our soil depleted of its nutrients, and the degradation of the standard American diet.

Conventional agricultural systems are depleting the health of the soil (1/3 of the World's farm land is now barren because of soil degradation) and limiting the availability of vital nutrients to crops, inevitably dwindling our well - being.

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These threats include siltation from soil erosion, increased abstraction of water in the catchment, degradation of land, deforestation, growth in human settlements, overgrazing, wildlife management, tourism and pollution coming from Nakuru town.