Sentences with phrase «ecological damage as»

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.

Not exact matches

And what about the entire ecological system of things, that works in harmony with us as humans for life to exist, from our atmosphere at 78 % nitrogen, 21 % oxygen down to the magnetosphere that comes from within the core of the earth and protects us from the sun's damaging electrically charged particles?

A truly ecological civilization will do as little damage as possible to weaker and poorer people in the process of supplying its own needs.

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.

And in terms of damage to fisheries and other recreational activities, the dollar toll for the ecological unraveling of the lakes due to ballast invasions was pegged in a 2008 University of Notre Dame study at $ 200 million annually — a number the study authors predicted would grow as new invasive species are discovered.

Hans van Haren makes the case against using tidal power because, as well as ecological damage, there is not much...

More heat - resistant zooxanthellae may come with ecological costs, such as reduced growth and reduced reproductive ability, and hence lower recovery following damage.

Using an ecological theory that relates the rate at which an organism consumes resources to the density of that resource — known as the «functional response curve» — the researchers showed that damaging invaders have consistently higher curves than natives.

but I wonder if there is a different type of fruit I could use as I try to avoid bananas because of the ecological damage that is involved.

Moreover, without U.S. leadership as demonstrated by domestic efforts to stabilize its population and thereby mitigate further damage to the environment, other nations would be reluctant to adopt policies and practices to stabilize their populations and work toward developmental and ecological sustainability.

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.

As for ecological damage, that is another story.

«Central to the issues we are going to have to deal with are: patterns of production and consumption in the industrial world that are undermining the Earth's life - support systems; the explosive increase in population, largely in the developing world, that is adding a quarter of a million people daily; deepening disparities between rich and poor that leave 75 per cent of humanity struggling to live; and an economic system that takes no account of ecological costs or damage — one which views unfettered growth as progress.

Large dam building flourished during the third quarter of the last century, but then slowed as the remaining good sites for dam building dwindled and as the costs of displacing people, ecological damage, and land inundation became more visible.

One thing the team, which also included scientists working in Brazil, are certain about, however, is that for this year at least, the Amazon Rainforest will be unable to absorb sufficient carbon so as to offset the ecological damage being wrought by deforestation, logging and fires.

We should put ourselves and our Media on a «war footing» as regards the deep and lasting impacts of ecological damages we are currently witnessing taking shape.