Sentences with phrase «ecological damage»

It is not clear how much ecological damage is being caused by current rates of exploitation.

The same increase in carbon dioxide that caused the ocean to become more acidic might also have sparked major ecological damage on land.

She will be developing dynamic ocean - management strategies that can be included in state and federal fisheries management to maximize profits while reducing ecological damage.

The industrialization of agriculture, resulting in the excessive irrigation of critical waterways to produce commodity crops such as cotton, sugar and rice: this has led to widespread ecological damage of key river systems as well as the salinization of millions of hectares of productive farmland

The most recent derailment and spill occurred on Jan. 20 near the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, causing extensive ecological damage.

Using satellite images combined with image processing techniques, a team led by Jeffrey Chambers, an expert in forest biogeography, found extensive ecological damage as well.

JUST's mission statement of providing plant based meats and eggs to prevent the slaughter of farm animals and its inherent large scale ecological damage also implies a future of genetically engineered meat products created in laboratores.

JUST's mission statement of providing plant based meats and eggs to prevent the slaughter of farm animals and its inherent large scale ecological damage also implies a future of genetically engineered meat products created in laboratores.

At present, as I discussed in my analysis article on Tuesday, evidence for widespread ecological damage is thin; so we have to presume that as of now, the significant volume of oil that remains (even a quarter of 4.9 milion barrels is still far more than released by the Exxon Valdez) is not hitting enough of those key zones to be having a major impact.

If left unstopped microbeads have the potential to cause significant ecological damage across our state.

«This discovery is significant in that it is the first known case of a pharmaceutical causing major ecological damage over a huge geographic area,» says lead author J. Lindsay Oaks, a veterinary microbiologist at Washington State University, Pullman.

The mine was closed after the 1998 accident, during which a dam burst caused billions of liters of acidic mining tailings to spill, nearly causing serious ecological damage to the park.

a. (i) The perceived safety risks attaching to nuclear power (including the prospective leakage of hazmat now or at some unspecified time into the future and the associated legacy question, localised epidemiology, catastrophic plant failure, work - based OH&S, prospective terrorist attack, hazmat spillage in transit through populated or environmentally sensitive areas, ecological damage form uranium mining)

«In contrast, the colorful Mandarin Duck is less frequently associated with reserves, and is unlikely to cause ecological damage even when it does colonize them.»

«How do we make the world work for 100 % of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or the disadvantage to anyone?»

However, the Coorong's recovery remains a priority because increasing salinity levels over summer present a risk of long - term ecological damage.

Claiming a proposed wellness center near Good Samaritan Hospital would cause irreparable ecological damage to the nearby Lyman Woods Forest Preserve, the Downers Grove Park District Board of Commissioners voted to sue the hospital to block its construction.

As the world celebrates World Environment Day on June 5, WABA would like to remind everyone about the ecological benefits of breastfeeding and that the practice of bottle feeding including the production of breastmilk substitutes and baby foods are non - renewable products that create ecological damage at every stage of their production, distribution and use.

«However, this is a costly process that can result in excessive nitrogen runoff into waterways, sometimes causing severe ecological damage.»

And what ecological damage has this creature caused other than the clogging of drainage pipes?

Barros and his team did not investigate why reproductive success was so much lower in the oiled colonies, but speculate from their knowledge of other studies that it resulted from wider ecological damage.

But PETA, which also advocates veganism, maintains that TNR itself is cruel because domestic cats are not equipped to live outdoors and they can cause considerable ecological damage by killing birds and other mammals.

This is a wake - up call for cat owners and communities to get serious about this problem before even more ecological damage occurs,» Fenwick said.

[And that's if we focus on climate concerns, and still ignore ecological damage of large - scale nitrogen pollution.]

Other wrong climate actions that have caused ecological damage include afforestation, the construction of hydropower and irrigation dams, and activities to meet bioenergy demand.

This study of course does not take away very different concerns related to stratospheric aerosol SRM geoengineering, like possible damage to the ozone layer [which in turn would be good news if you hate waiting for that spring tan] and the fact that allowing CO2 concentrations to keep rising presents other problems, like the necessity to never stop with the active process of SRM geoengineering, and increasing ecological damage caused by ocean acidification.

Based on that up - to - date scientific understanding of the permanent harm that would result from the destruction and burial of six miles of vital headwater streams, the downstream contamination and resulting ecological damage, and the leveling of 2,000 acres of natural mountaintop, EPA issued a final veto determination in January 2011.

If this result holds for other glacially - fed lakes around the world (and there's no reason to believe that the results won't hold), then the dangerous pollutants that environmentalists thought had largely been phased out will return and could cause similar ecological damage as they caused decades ago (DDT - thinned eggshells, fishing limitations due to PCBs, etc.).

Forge a direct relationship with energy you can afford, energy that works nearly 24/7/365, energy that causes the least ecological damage and is far more sustainable than wind power: the hydrocarbon, hydroelectric and nuclear power that have sustained our society and brought unprecedented health, prosperity and living standards to billions.

:: Sierra Club Rincon (You Tube Channel) Mexican Border Wall Mexican Government Cites Ecological Damages of Border Wall Immigration Meets Environmentalism

But if the human species is going to pursue biomimetic cities and high - tech sustainability as our path back from the precipice, then two daunting challenges remain: can we and how do we make economics itself biomimetic and self - sustaining, and what do we do about the massive ecological damage caused by global travel and trade?

«A child born in the United States will create thirteen times as much ecological damage over the course of his or her lifetime than a child born in Brazil,» reports the Sierra Club's Dave Tilford, adding that the average American will drain as many resources as 35 natives of India and consume 53 times more goods and services than someone from China.

Using satellite images combined with image processing techniques, a team led by Jeffrey Chambers, an expert in forest biogeography, found extensive ecological damage as well.

I am, for the most part, a believer in personal freedom but, like Lloyd's take on ATV's and the environment, I find it hard to see how off roading can be done without significant ecological damage (I'm sure my biodiesel buddies will disagree!).

Serious ecological damage is probably already committed between a warming of 1 to 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial climate.

The $ 12 billion project has come under fire by environmentalists and some U.S. Democratic lawmakers who object to the higher greenhouse - gas emissions and ecological damage caused by oil - sands development.

The former is increasingly making news given the rising number of train derailments, explosions, loss of life and ecological damage being caused by accidents involving trains transporting oil from hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» operations — primarily in Mountain West U.S. states.

It is even more difficult to provide convincing evidence of the dangers to life caused by the rapid extinction of species and by other forms of ecological damage.

We have become aware of ecological damage and the disintegration caused in an obvious manner by human folly, human greed, and human heedlessness.

For example abandoned nets that animals can get caught in, oil leakages cause huge amount of ecological damage and waste products from plastic production build up in food chains leading to as yet unknown consequences in humans.

The Downers Grove Park District Board of Commissioners voted 4 - 1 last year to sue the hospital to block construction of a $ 14 million health and fitness facility, which environmentalists said would cause extensive ecological damage to Lyman Woods and a buffer zone.

Last month the Downers Grove Park District Board of Commissioners voted 4 - 1 to sue the hospital to block construction of the $ 14 million center, which environmentalists contend would cause extensive ecological damage to Lyman Woods and a buffer zone.

But if much ecological damage is caused by excess consumerism, addressing the problem now would seem to have the advantage of killing two birds with one stone.