Sentences with phrase «ecological damage of»

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

Madness, and to make matters worse, the ecological damage of the bottles water is totally unsustainable.

A new in - depth analysis of global bycatch data provides fisheries and the conservation community with the best information yet to help mitigate the ecological damage of bycatch and helps identify where mitigation measures are most needed.

The Chinese government has also increased efforts to reduce the ecological damage of rare - earth mining.

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

Not exact matches

In the context of considering the NGP's economic burdens and benefits (NGP Report, Volume II, s. 2.4.4), the JRP noted that the concept of «ecological goods and services» was described during the hearing but that, based on the hearing record, the estimated costs for damages to ecosystem goods and services were not well quantified and based on a methodology that is not currently broadly accepted.

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?

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 Wall is gone and the massive cleanup of ecological and social damage in the East is under way, but many of the older generation are still wandering in the wilderness, with little taste for manna or hope of glimpsing any promised land.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

«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.

In 2011, to help Palmyra recover from the ecological damage wreaked by the non-native rats, land managers implemented an aerial drop of rodenticide that quickly eradicated them.

Damage from the Tubbs fire in October now presents a rare opportunity to learn about the behavior of wildfire, its ecological aftermath and how we live with fire

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

«It is also believed that the damage of using chemicals to deal with the problems may do more ecological harm than zebra mussels themselves.

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

Ecosystems are delicately balanced, and losing ecological roles throws a system out of whack: Think of a forest damaged when the deer population explodes because the wolves that prey on them are removed.

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.

It means we can now produce maps of where coral is likely to be for large areas of the deep - sea that we have not yet visited, and use them to identify high value ecological areas that might need protection from damaging activities.»

«Decision - makers worry a lot about economic recessions, but an ecological recession could have even worse consequences — and the biodiversity damage we've had means we're at risk of that happening.

I think the evidence is pretty clear that for instance, local, labor — intensive, low - input agriculture is the smartest option from much of the world, both in terms of providing jobs, security, stability and food, and in making those ecological systems robust enough to withstand the damage that's coming, that's already here.

People are responsible for much of the rising cost and ecological damage that wildfires impose

RUSSIA Copy of research paper on uranium and thorium mines in the Chita region of Siberia and their associated environmental and health problems on behalf Baikalwatch, a project of the Earth Island Institute and the Baikal Center for Ecological and Citizen Initiatives in Irkutsk, Russia titled: «Environmental Damage and Policy Issues in the Uranium and Gold Mining Districts of Chita Oblast in the Russian Far East: A Report on Existing Problems at Baley and Krasnokamensk and Policy Needs in the Region» (91k document) completed November 1996.

Copy of research paper on uranium and thorium mines in the Chita region of Siberia and their associated environmental and health problems on behalf Baikalwatch, a project of the Earth Island Institute and the Baikal Center for Ecological and Citizen Initiatives in Irkutsk, Russia titled: «Environmental Damage and Policy Issues in the Uranium and Gold Mining Districts of Chita Oblast in the Russian Far East: A Report on Existing Problems at Baley and Krasnokamensk and Policy Needs in the Region» (91k document) completed November 1996.

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.

To counter the damage to the environment, nonprofit environmental groups and palm oil manufacturers gathered in 2004 and established the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a global certification body.10 They have created eight ecological principles with 39 criteria11 to prevent the negative environmental impacts of palm oil production.

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.

One of the main challenges to the scientific community involved in biology conservation is to demonstrate that the loss and damage of habitats, ecological interactions and species generates a prejudice (present and future) that far exceeds the profits from the exploitation of natural resources and agricultural production.

Investigative journalists played a significant role in spearheading the movement by reporting on the dangers of environmental toxins, deforestation, nuclear testing, and other ecological damage.

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.

In this sense, Arkaba represents a microcosm of a global ecological calamity — the damage done by exotic species.

Note: In the ecological parks of the Mayan Riviera the use of regular sunscreens is prohibited for swimming and other water activities because oils can be damaging to the water - life ecology.

Alumni and parents met with Cooper faculty and students who are actively researching ways to minimize our carbon footprint and counter years of ecological damage.

That's the end of all coastal cities less massive dike building, and that just makes the ecological damage that much worse.

Another is ecological damage, like the loss of mangroves in Myanmar that appears to have allowed the flood surge there to propagate inland more readily.

Environmental sustainability of the project in relation to massive resettlement and ecological damage is to be focused in this paper.

Achieving a sustainable and equitable global solution is clearly incompatible with a worldwide replication of U.S. lifestyles or even the somewhat less damaging ecological impacts of the lifestyles of other industrialized countries.

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

Most damage [ecological, economical] of climate change is not a direct consequence of a shift in mean temperatures.

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 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.