Cases arising from
ecological damage caused by the company and applications for compensation or restitution of damaged property would be taken up by the tribunal, which would decide on the compensation after hearing both the appellants and the company.
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.
Although warming of only 1.5 degrees would result in much less harm to the climate than 2 degrees, it's possible that
the ecological damage caused by the negative emissions projects needed to get there may exceed the benefits, at least for some.
At the heart of Arkaba is the property's intensive efforts to undo
the ecological damage caused since sheep farmers settled the area in 1851.
Curiously, a film that spends time hashing out all the gory details never manages to open up a dialogue on
the ecological damage caused by BP's alarming two - month long, three - million - gallon whoopsie.
After a lifetime of ecological research, Zimbabwean ecologist Allan Savory discovered (the hard way) that the quickest and most efficient way for humanity to re-build topsoil and restore
the ecological damage caused by modern agriculture is to put grazing animals onto broken land.
Not exact matches
The most recent derailment and spill occurred on Jan. 20 near the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia,
causing extensive
ecological damage.
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.
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.
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.
Perhaps inevitably, dam projects have thus frequently created poverty and
damaged ecologies, for example by
causing displacement and by undermining useful
ecological phenomena like annual flooding that spreads irrigation water and fertile soil.
If left unstopped microbeads have the potential to
cause significant
ecological damage across our state.
«However, this is a costly process that can result in excessive nitrogen runoff into waterways, sometimes
causing severe
ecological damage.»
«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.
It is not clear how much
ecological damage is being
caused by current rates of exploitation.
And what
ecological damage has this creature
caused other than the clogging of drainage pipes?
Snakeheads are prompting fears that it could become an invasive species and
cause ecological damage.
They can
cause damage to fishing gear and river banks, block intake screens, modify natural habitats and compete with native species, and it is this economic and
ecological damage that makes this crab such an unwelcome arrival.
The same increase in carbon dioxide that
caused the ocean to become more acidic might also have sparked major
ecological damage on land.
invasive species A non-native species whose introduction may
cause ecological and economic
damage.
While invasive predatory freshwater fishes have
caused devastating
damage to native freshwater species, ref marine invasive fishes are relatively uncommon and their
ecological effects are largely unknown.
It's also clear that extreme weather events
cause disproportionate
damage to human and
ecological systems.
It strikes me that land management issues have
caused far greater
ecological damage than climate change and are, therefore, of much greater immediate importance.
A very well known example would be the dust bowl: «The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms
causing major
ecological and agricultural
damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936.»
«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.»
The authors said the proposed policies «were premised on the flawed notion... that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations will change climate dramatically and thereby
cause major
ecological and economic
damage.»
Surely the probability is higher than that for a complete shutdown (itself 45 % to 70 %) Here «partial but significant» is defined to mean, significdant enough to
cause ecological or economic serious
damage.