Sentences with phrase «ecological health of»

MB: Can you name one simple action that we can take today to begin living a life that fosters the spiritual and ecological health of our people and our planet?

Restoring the ecological health of the Chesapeake Bay will require reducing nutrient pollution in urban stormwater runoff.

Not counting carbon emissions from burning the coal, scientists, environmentalists, and concerned citizens along coal transport routes are worried that these cumulative impacts will harm public health, disrupt their daily lives, and negatively impact the ecological health of waterways along the path from mine to port.

The key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today's market - led cultural phenomenon and cultural movement, and the role of curator as a cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.

Be sure to take them on a walk along the mangroves, it's a wonderful educational opportunity where they can observe these unique that are so important to the ecological health of Parguera Nature Reserve.

Science also shows that wolves are important for restoring the ecological health of our wildlands.

The studies quantified how changes humans make to streams by withdrawing water impact the ecological health of aquatic systems.

The successful reintroduction of gray wolves to parts of the northern Rocky Mountains has boosted the ecological health of Yellowstone National Park, William Ripple, an ecologist at Oregon State University, reported last January.

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.

A lake's chloride status may also provide a window into the ecological health of its watershed.

The goal of forest management is to restore the ecological health of forests so they become more resilient to fire.

The advisory panel charged with monitoring the ecological health of Crystal Lake was disrupted Monday night when two members said they were resigning and the chairman said he would step down from his post.

CRYSTAL LAKE — The advisory panel that monitors the ecological health of Crystal Lake might become bogged down if given additional power, George Boulet, chairman of the Crystal Lake Watershed Management and Lake Ecology Agency, told members Monday.

If agriculture is to remain productive, it must preserve the land, and the fertility and ecological health of the land; the land, that is, must be used well.

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.

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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.

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.

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).

There is a good reason for that: Although rainforests cover only 2 percent of the earth's surface, these ecological powerhouses are critical to nearly every aspect of the planet's health — including our very ability to breathe.

Commonwealth environmental water will be used to maintain ecological health and resilience of the Darling Anabranch system.

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.

The number of potential combinations of substances, circumstances, and settings is mind - boggling, yet these synergies and their impacts on ecological and human health are essentially unknown!

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.

The Organic Center Bringing the Science Behind Organic Eco-Farm Association Facilitating Continued Development of Ecological and Just Foods Rodale Institute Improving Health and Wellbeing Through Organic Leadership Sustainable Trade Association Building the Capacity of Sustainable Food Trade

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.

According to EcoMall, «Breastfeeding is probably the most overlooked means of contributing to the health of our planet» and parentingweb states, «Breastmilk is actually the most ecological food available to humans.»

Miramichi Leader, January 23, 2009 Weatherproofing can cut your energy costs by the Editors of E / The Environmental Magazine» A growing number of green - minded parents are starting to recognize the health and ecological benefits of reusable cloth diapers over disposables.

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.

Now the Pierce Downer's Heritage Alliance, a local environmental group, has filed suit against the Village of Downers Grove and the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board, alleging that both agencies violated a section of the Illinois Natural Preservation Act by failing to consult with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to determine the project's ecological impact on the adjacent preserve.

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.

At a lakeside ceremony on May 31, New York State Assemblyman Steve Otis announced the state grant was to «help restore the ecological health» of Beechmont Lake.

The study, published by EcoHealth Alliance's Dr. Kevin Olival and Dr. David Hayman from Massey University, reviewed all of the current literature on filoviruses — the class of viruses that include both Ebola and Marburg virus — and took a critical look at the ecological and virological methods needed to understand these viruses to protect human health.

Our ability to assess biological diversity, ecosystem health, ecological interactions, and a wide range of other important processes is largely dependent on accurately recognizing species.

Given that the world population is still growing by about 200,000 people a day, and the ecological footprint of the human race already lies beyond the limits of sustainability, fewer European mega-consumers will be a blessing for the health of the planet — and fewer North Americans would...

Dr. Franz Hölker coordinates the «Loss of the Night» research platform at Berlin's Leibniz - Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), which looks at the ecological, health and social impacts of light pollution.

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 only with the emergence of a genetic tool called CRISPR / Cas9 — the bottle opener that unleashed the genie — has gene drive technology offered the prospect of providing a speedy means to end some of the world's greatest health and ecological scourges.

More than 60 researchers from a cross section of disciplines and institutions, including the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have created the Ocean Health Index to do just that.

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.

But they're also deeply connected to the ecological and economic health of these regions, he notes.

But evidence is mounting that the switch to less - toxic pyrethroids has brought its own set of new ecological and human health risks.

«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.

Experts believe the ecological disaster has displaced more than 100,000 people and affected the health of more than 5 million people throughout the region.

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.

Antibiotic resistance must be approached using an interdisciplinary strategy based upon collaboration and communication across the fields of human, animal, and ecological health, said Laura Kahn, a co-founder of an multidisciplinary medicine initiative.

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