Sentences with phrase «ecological consequences for»

Thus far, observed consumption of terrestrial food by polar bears has been insufficient to offset lost ice - based hunting opportunities but can have ecological consequences for other species.

A University of Kansas (KU) researcher studying trade and globalization has found that the shift to «technified» coffee production in the 1970s and 1980s has created harsher economic and ecological consequences for heavy coffee - producing nations, such as Honduras, Colombia, Guatemala, Brazil, Vietnam and Ethiopia.

Not exact matches

a time which is no longer characterized by military Governments, but more by economic globalization and its — for many — disastrous economic and ecological consequences.18 In connection with the 1992 UN Conference on the Environment in Rio de Janeiro, Boff recognized the urgency of ecological issues.

This inner poisoning of life... can not... be overcome simply by victory over economic need, political oppression, cultural alienation and the ecological crisis... The absence of meaning and the corresponding consequences of an ossified and absurd life are described in theological terms as godforsakenness... Faith becomes hope for significant fulfillment.

However, the same properties that allow nanotechnology to be valuable give it the potential to cause unforeseen consequences for ecological and human health.

«Today, phosphorus is also a limiting nutrient for the oceans, but the input of the phosphorus and iron into the ocean from these volcanoes has major paleoenvironmental and ecological consequences.»

Co-author Marianne Nyegaard, an ichthyologist at Australia's Murdoch University, says this type of clarification is vital in biology and «important in understanding, for example, the ecological consequences of climate change.»

They are also on the lookout for unintended ecological consequences of the project.

But it could have long - term consequences for the ecological life of the U.S. and Mexico borderlands.

Lead author Matthias Schmidt Thomsen, of Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, says: «We have known for some time that a reduction in biodiversity has negative ecological consequences, but predictions of what happens to an ecosystem have not accounted for the occurrence of compensatory responses.»

A warming climate will strongly influence Montana's snowpack, streamflow dynamics, and groundwater resources, with far - reaching consequences for social and ecological systems.

What might the future ecological consequences be for wild species as the globe continues to warm rapidly?

In its 2012 statement on Climate Change, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has reconfirmed that there is compelling evidence of human impact on the climate system with potentially far - reaching consequences for ecological and political systems.

For example, see: Ecological selection as the cause and sexual differentiation as the consequence of species divergence?

The consequences of this overall process, known as «ocean acidification», are raising concerns for the biological, ecological, and biogeochemical health of the world's oceans, as well as for the potential societal implications.

By enabling scientists to reversibly control local population abundance, daisy drives could become a valuable tool for the study of ecological interactions and the likely consequences of releasing global RNA - guided suppression drives.

We can no longer exclude the possibility that our collective actions will trigger tipping points, risking abrupt and irreversible consequences for human communities and ecological systems.

Before that, as part of a scientifically grounded 2009 Buddhist declaration on climate change citing the «ecological consequences of our collective karma,» the Dalai Lama endorsed the 350 - parts - per - million target for carbon emissions.

What are the large - scale consequences of ongoing ecological changes for social systems and human security, and are the impacts gender - differentiated?

If we fail we are almost certain to suffer the consequences of ecological and social crisis for geological scales potential lasting for hundreds of thousands of years as did the global warming of the Eocene.

We'll present a couple illustrations before we'll get to the actual publication we hope to discuss — one that compares methodology of science - based and «science - denying» climate websites but that also touches on a subject we personally find far more interesting: what's actually going on in the Arctic, an area that is not only experiencing major physical consequences of climate change, but that is subsequently also set to be a stage for a cascade of ecological consequences of this climate change — both in the Arctic tundra biome and in the adjacent Arctic marine ecosystem.

However, recent observations of the rate and severity of physical and ecological responses to escalating radiative forcing — melting glaciers and ice sheets resulting in sea level rise and major changes in weather patterns, prolonged droughts, more frequent hurricanes and storms, and so on — are surprising even top climate experts, and raising awareness that, as a nation, we are dangerously unprepared for the inevitable consequences.

Toward an ecological / transactional model of community violence and child maltreatment: Consequences for children's development.

Toward an ecological transactional model of community violence and child maltreatment — Consequences for childrens development

Toward an ecological - transactional model of community violence and child maltreatment: Consequences for children's development