The phrase
"ecological impact" refers to the consequences or effects that human activities or natural events have on the environment and the living organisms within it. It highlights the impact or harm caused to the earth's ecosystems, such as deforestation, pollution, or climate change, and how these actions affect plants, animals, and ecosystems as a whole.
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Environmental scientists and synthetic biologists have for the first time developed a set of key research areas to study the potential
ecological impacts of synthetic biology.
Cons: In many cases dams are used to facilitate the current; these dams can have a
negative ecological impact on the surrounding area.
Remember that one child in a developed nation has a much
higher ecological impact over his or her life than one child in a developing nation.
Equally important, wind and solar substitutes for fossil fuels have their own
major ecological impacts — which few environmentalists ever acknowledge.
Previous episodes of acidification — possibly caused by CO2 released from huge, sustained volcanic eruptions — had a
tremendous ecological impact.
However, he's been more concerned about their
damaging ecological impact rather than the health consequences they might present, I think.
At least some commercial interests, in particular the fishing industry, have shown patience in
considering ecological impacts before pushing into the region.
These facts suggest that the
coming ecological impact will be of a scale that we will simply have to manage and adapt to as best we can.
Direct environmental and
ecological impacts of agriculture «on the farm» are certainly reduced in organic systems.
With proteins coming under scrutiny for their
high ecological impacts, approaches to reduce environmental impacts of livestock and seafood production will be discussed.
Whether it's their pioneering work on decentralized supply chains for charcoal or firewood production, their localized paper - recycling systems, or their ambitious plans for One - Planet Living communities around the world, they always seem to be rethinking the way we do things, with dramatic reductions in
ecological impacts as a result.
WIND: Supporters of a Kansas wildlife refuge are concerned about the potential
ecological impact from a 300 MW wind farm under construction nearby.
Geothermal energy is a clean, safe and plentiful energy source that
minimizes ecological impacts better than any other renewable source of power.
Useful quantitative measures of the
increasing ecological impacts are provided by the history of oil development in Alberta, Canada for production of both conventional oil and tar sands development.
Much of the tar sands bitumen is extracted through surface mining that removes the «overburden» (i.e., boreal forest ecosystems) and tar sand from large areas to a depth up to 100 m,
with ecological impacts downstream and in the mined area [154].
Chiu, Y., Suh, S., Pfister, S., Hellweg, S., Koehler, A. 2012:
Measuring ecological impact of water consumption by bioethanol using life cycle impact assessment.
Low ecological impact coupled with cost competitiveness are some of the key parameters which will embellish the mini hydropower market size.
In one paragraph, they may quote the dangerous banalities of a particular politician, or the self - justification of a well - connected plutocrat; in the next, the fine points of how non-linearity
in ecological impact assessments undermines current economic models.
In case you've been wondering lately if this whole tree - hugging nonsense has its priorities straight, wondering if those of us in the environmental movement are focusing on the right areas of
greatest ecological impact,
Our research shows that this strategy could be doubly beneficial, leading to smaller populations in the long run while also creating more male - biased populations in the short run with less
severe ecological impacts,» Palkovacs said.
The findings are relevant to assessing the
possible ecological impacts of seafloor mining — scientists must account for the uniqueness of local geology and chemistry and not assume that a common supply of animal larvae will colonize and restore neighboring habitats.
Environmental scientists and synthetic biologists have for the first time developed a set of key research areas to study the
potential ecological impacts of synthetic biology, a field that could push beyond incremental changes to create organisms that transcend common evolutionary pathways.
Much of the tar sands bitumen is extracted through surface mining that removes the «overburden» (i.e., boreal forest ecosystems) and tar sand from large areas to a depth up to 100 m, with
ecological impacts downstream and in the mined area [154].
Also, and even more importantly, we recognize that sliders represent a very real and
devastating ecological impact when they get into non-native habitats.
The Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA - ON) relies on international collaboration to share data and understand the
global ecological impacts of ocean acidification (OA).
While ecological impacts and their questionable reversibility appear as the primary concern throughout Samra's works, the concept of hostility towards our environment extends to the belligerent actions witnessed across the Middle East.
GMO Food Just Doesn't Make Sense Despite the failures of GMOs, it is clear that their developers have not failed at making huge profits in a system where farmers are forced to market on volume, and have no market rewards for nutritional quality or penalties
for ecological impact.
A widely contested project with potentially severe and in some cases uncertain socio -
ecological impacts gets approved in order to open new markets for bitumen, and we will sort out the difficulties later.
Ecologist Arian Wallach of Charles Darwin University in Darwin, Australia, was searching for dingo tracks in the Australian outback when she began to wonder why dingoes and foxes have such
different ecological impacts in Australia.
Losing a lot of corals has a
broader ecological impact: species that eat the corals lose their food source; fish that would hide in the corals become more susceptible to predation from sharks.
They have concerns about the
local ecological impact of these animals, and then there are also health issues if people interface and get close to them.»
«The study confirms the
dire ecological impacts of the widespread degradation of coral reefs globally, but particularly in the Caribbean,» says Alex Rogers, a marine biologist at the Institute of Zoology in London.
What Jim Carlton meant here was that despite
measurable ecological impacts, scientists must often invoke human health and economic impacts to get the public and politicians to care.
Data comes from the largest assessment of its kind, part of the
PLOS Ecological Impacts of Climate Change Collection.
· Renewable power sources have lower pollution - related human health and
ecological impacts per unit of power produced than coal - fired power plants or the current electricity mix, but require more metals and other minerals.
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