Sentences with phrase «ecological damage caused»

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.
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