Sentences with phrase «dramatic decline due»
Over the last 50 years, orangutan populations have been in dramatic decline due to external factors like habitat fragmentation and poaching — but a new study reveals the startling pervasiveness of their threat from humans.
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They have however suffered dramatic declines over the last 60 years, due to development and agricultural changes.
The most important reason is the dramatic decline in multiple births due to policies of choosing to transfer only one embryo at a time,» concluded Dr Henningsen.
Relatively little is known about the ecology and natural history of the Helmeted Woodpecker, which is found in Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina, but it has experienced dramatic population declines and vanished from much of its former range due to deforestation.
It notes that there have been dramatic declines in cardiovascular deaths among women due to improved treatment and prevention of heart disease as well as increased public awareness.
Due to our current low interest rate environment all whole life insurance policy dividends have seen a dramatic decline.
Because of dramatic job losses due to declines in global oil prices, this Budget proposes legislative changes to extend the duration of EI regular benefits by five weeks, up to a maximum of 50 weeks of benefits for anyone living in a resource - dependent region.
I start (and started) from the premise that the dramatic decline in crude oil prices that took place from August, 2014 ($ 96 / barrel), to March, 2015 ($ 44 / barrel), was due — on the one hand — to decreased demand, a function of slow economic growth in Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, endogenous, price - driven technological change leading to greater fuel efficiency, and policy - driven technological change that also has been leading to greater fuel efficiency, such as more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing).
The dramatic decline is mostly due to economic development that helps nations withstand catastrophes.
«But the lead author of the study... says that he is not convinced that it is just the changing climate... «It could be partly due to this chaotic rainfall, but personally I don't think it can explain such a dramatic decline in mosquitoes, to the extent we can say that the malaria mosquitoes are almost eradicated in these communities... «What we should consider is that there may be a disease among the mosquitoes, a fungi or a virus, or they're may have been some environmental changes in the communities that have resulted in a drop in the number of mosquitoes»... The research team also found anecdotal evidence that their discovery was not an isolated case... «Other scientists are saying they can't test their drugs because there are no children left with malaria.»»
This change is likely to be most dramatic in Arctic coastal waters, which are rapidly freshening due to the melting of ice on glaciers and permafrost (McPhee et al. 2009), accelerating OA and Ωaragonite decline relative to the rates expected from anthropogenic CO2 alone (Tank et al. 2012).
For example, perverse incentives to push viable businesses into solvency may be at work due to increased margins and fees, while lenders engineer «distress» in businesses by restricting credit or revaluing assets and then accelerate the decline by imposing dramatic changes to lending terms.
Due to our current low interest rate environment all whole life insurance policy dividends have seen a dramatic decline.
That number rose to its peak of $ 270,000 in 2005, a remarkable 112 percent increase (a 16 percent per year average increase, or 11.3 percent compounded annually), after which we witnessed four consecutive years of median price declines (1.9 percent in 2006, 1.6 percent in 2007, 9.9 percent in 2008, 9.8 percent in 2009) that seem particularly dramatic due to the booming market of the seven years prior.