Sentences with phrase «ecological health in»

Just how accurate can the fossil record be, when it comes to things like weather cycles or the finer points of ecological health in the global environment?

Regulated efficiency gains in West Germany through the 1980s, for example, left its ecological health in no better shape than East Germany's, where there were no regulations at all.

The Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project is dedicated to bringing back wolves to help restore ecological health in the Grand Canyon region.

Its aim is not geographical, territorial and numerical expansion, but transformation of the whole cosmos» 11 God's saving activity has a threefold dimension calling persons to commit to the Kingdom of God, justice and peace in society and ecological health in the land (Amos 9:14 - 15).

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In the face of this, experts said revising the plan to a more achievable goal of maintaining ecological function would be more realistic, while accepting that the overall health of the reef would decline with time, Michael Slezak reports for The Guardian.

Aktipis» unwavering interest in the ecological health of the planet along with the knowledge of where our food comes from is what brought about this nearly year - long transition.

If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security, and human health are likely to occur.

Since then, for a number of reasons (air and water pollution, health concerns ignored and in fact unknown by scientific medicine, ecological issues), this questioning of the omnicompetence of the scientific method to uncover the truth, and of the creative value of technological «progress,» has deepened and spread and now penetrates much further into the culture as a whole.

Still others have noted the impact of globalization on the environment and have raised in more pointed ways issues related to sustainability and ecological health.

Many also have raised in more pointed ways issues related to sustainability and ecological health.

This January, US Food and Drug Administration (US FDA) officially approved GM Huahui rice in China, stirring alarm as majority of the Chinese are wary of the health and ecological risks of GMO commercialization.

In partnership with European retailers and other stake - holders, Volkert has launched the «Dr. Good Food» campaign to raise awareness of the health and ecological benefits of fruits & vegetables.

Genetically engineered rice as part of the second Green Revolution is repeating the mistakes of the Green Revolution, intensifying the deficiencies that are killing people, while adding new hazards in terms of ecological and health risks.

Finally, employers are investing in their future work force by supporting breastfeeding; some studies have indicated that breastfed babies have potentially higher IQ's and better academic accomplishments than bottle - fed babies.Because of the far - reaching positive ecological, health, and social impact breastfeeding can make on our planet, it is imperative for anyone interested in protecting our children and our environment to do whatever possible to support, protect, and promote breastfeeding.

Real fiscal responsibility would mean ramping down military misadventures and making smart investments in future health, prosperity, and ecological sanity.

More and more evidence points to the importance of breastfeeding on a cultural, public health, psychosocial, ecological and economic level, and the need to support, protect and promote it in all aspects of healthcare and society, as well as asserting breastfeeding as a human right for both babies and women.

If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earth's physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur.

They analyzed four of the most common drivers of social - ecological change in indigenous lands: introduction of advanced health care, abandonment of traditional religious and taboo beliefs, the conversion of land outside the indigenous area for large - scale agriculture, and the introduction of external food resources.

But ecological upheaval, burgeoning travel and trade, a changing climate, and failures in public health systems have allowed new pathogens to emerge and old ones to bounce back.

As an armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in southeastern Oregon drags into its fourth week, the first casualty of the standoff could be the refuge's ecological health.

«It can amplify and unmask ecological and socio - political weaknesses and increase the risk of adverse health outcomes in socially vulnerable regions.»

But Alaska salmon falls short and lags behind some of the world's fisheries in how it benefits local fishermen, processing workers and nearby rural communities, according to a new assessment that ranks the vitality of a fishery by looking at its economic and community benefits as well as its ecological health.

Elton was among the first natural scientists to articulate a link between biological diversity — the number and variety of native species in an ecosystem — and ecological health.

The research, conducted by researchers at New York University and the University of Miami (Fla.), shows that «doom and gloom» language was present in only 10 percent of the analyzed U.S. newspaper articles; by contrast, optimistic language — such as, «the oceans are mostly intact, still wild enough to bounce back to ecological health» (New York Times, January 15, 2015)-- was present in more than a quarter of these stories.

The samples were collected at local health facilities from 2011 to 2014 in three ecological zones of Ghana: Navrongo, Kintampo, and Accra.

«It is all about getting a much deeper understanding of sharks» ecological role in the ocean, which is important to the health of the ocean and, by extension, to our own well - being.»

But microbes, too, may upset the ecological balance at their destination, in addition to creating public health risks.

The anti-GM backlash in China is driven in part by Greenpeace and scientists who are raising long - standing concerns about possible ecological and health effects of transgenic crops.

Given the obvious concerns for human ecological health — in terms of climate change, heavy metal toxification, indoor air quality, air pollution, plastics in the oceans, and things like that — there will be a large - scale trend to buildings that start to act like organisms.

«A land ethic,» the great naturalist writer Aldo Leopold observed toward the end of his famous Sand County Almanac, «reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of land.»

The problem is particularly acute in the rich fisheries of West Africa, where a lack of transparency in reporting is threatening efforts to evaluate the ecological health of the waters.

For example, if one reads the literature on biological invasions published in the 1990s, one will find few efforts by ecologists to present the full picture of the impacts of introduced species — for instance, that a small number cause great health, economic, and / or ecological problems, most have little known impact, and a small number have a positive impact.

She said there are numerous examples of groundbreaking studies that are not replicable, such as human health studies after the dropping of atomic bombs in Hiroshima or the ecological effects of the BP PLC Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

The sphere of daily life for Marsh Arab women has shrunk as the natural resources they traditionally cultivated have vanished, reports an international team of researchers in «Effects of Mesopotamian Marsh (Iraq) desiccation on the cultural knowledge and livelihood of Marsh Arab women,» published today in the March 2016 issue of Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, a joint journal of the Ecological Society of America and Ecological Society of China.

According to Dr. Biju Kumar, one of the study's authors, the discovery of this crab is very important in the context of conservation of the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotpot as they can serve as ecological indicators, reflecting the health of the ecosystem.

The researchers said other factors, in addition to better air quality, could also contribute to the drops in death rates from respiratory diseases — a limitation of any retrospective analysis of health - environmental associations in ecological studies.

Our faculty pursues research in DNA analysis, GIS, disease diagnostics and other biomarkers, ecological anthropology, forensic anthropology, fossil excavation, modern Mayan cultures, Global and One Health, and both historic and prehistoric archaeology.

Public health in the U.S. can be affected by disruptions of physical, biological, and ecological systems, including disturbances originating in the U.S. and elsewhere.

«Microbiology is coming to a point where it's extraordinarily evident that bacteria, fungi and viruses play a massive role in the development of health and disease in humans, in environmental settings and ecological systems,» said Jack Gilbert, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolution at the University of Chicago.

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.

This study aims to use ecological genomics and next - gen DNA sequencing tools to provide the baseline knowledge on the bio-geographic distribution of chromerids and apicomplexans on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), their association with different coral hosts, and their role in coral health and disease.

preliminary human health and non-pollinator ecological assessments issued for public comment in December 2017

Demonstrating just how far - reaching the health impact of the bacterial balance in your gut can be, another recent study claims the key factor behind cancer appears to be ecological rather than genetic.11

In solving many of the social and humanitarian problems, including health issues, including hunger issues, including ecological issues, ITT is very important.

His article «A Complementary Ecological Model of the Coordinated School Health Program,» initially published in Public Health Reports (2010) and subsequently in the Journal of School Health (2010), provided the first reconceptualization of this approach in more than 20 years.

In many developing countries, free - roaming dogs cause serious health and welfare problems with resulting socio - economic, ecological, political, and ethical issues.

Biodiversity — a term that refers to the variability of life forms in a given area — has long been used to measure ecological health; but could it also be used to gauge the long - term economic health of the pet industry?

The protection of these fragile island resources was ensured when Congress, in the act that created Channel Islands National Park in 1980, established a long - term ecological monitoring program to gather information on the current health of resources and predict future conditions.

Coral reef health requires an ecological balance of corals and algae in which herbivory is a key element.