The phrase
"ecological problems" refers to issues or challenges related to the environment and nature. These problems often occur when human activities harm or disturb the delicate balance of ecosystems, leading to negative effects on plants, animals, and the overall environment. Some examples of
ecological problems include deforestation, pollution, climate change, and the extinction of species. Solving these problems requires taking actions to protect and preserve the environment for future generations.
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It goes without saying I don't agree with that (although it's certainly true that
many ecological problems do turn out to have technological solutions).
Rather than training to be the very best, you're
solving ecological problems and defeating criminals; really, you're much more of an obvious force for good in these games.
Perhaps you haven't, but soil erosion — the wearing away of soil by water, wind and other natural forces — can be a
major ecological problem.
When I started my PhD, I became interested in how new statistical modeling and simulation modeling techniques could shed new light on
old ecological problems.
Other
ecological problems in the Lakes and their surroundings have stemmed from urban sprawl, sewage disposal, and toxic industrial effluent.
Current methods often generate odors and greenhouse gases and can
cause ecological problems downstream, such as algae blooms and contaminated groundwater.
Following workshops co-sponsored by the Synthetic Biology Project at the Wilson Center, a cross-disciplinary team is calling for public discussion about a potential new way to solve longstanding global
ecological problems by using an emerging technology called «gene drives.»
Not only does this deforestation destroy habitat for birds and cause
other ecological problems, but it also releases a large amount of the carbon stored in mangrove soil — so much, in fact, that the shrimp end up having a sizable carbon footprint, according to calculations presented here today at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceNOW).
Unlike Playa del Carmen and Cancun, which have started to suffer
from ecological problems, this area of Tulum is dedicated to keeping the area just as it is for as long as possible.
«It's a
big ecological problem here,» says biologist Julien Grangier of Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.
According to Rubin, the framework that popularizers have established for
discussing ecological problems leads people to think of their solutions in wide - ranging terms.
The goals of the project include reconstructing extreme climate changes from the recent past (1894 - 2014), using historically referenced data to assess near - future global climate model projections, and to ultimately use this analysis to
investigate ecological problems in Chesapeake Bay, such as eelgrass diebacks.
In Isaac Asimov's short story «-- That Thou Art Mindful of Him,» engineers attempt to acclimate humans to robots by creating robots that look like birds and insects and also detect and
correct ecological problems.
As thrilling as this evidence is to archaeologists, it may also have very practical importance as a modern weapon against some of our
mosturgent ecological problems.
In his latest publication in the International Journal of Ecology, Dr Black argues that new insight
into ecological problems is needed to enable practitioners to devise how best to manage and improve situations for endangered species.
«Agriculture is the main driver of
most ecological problems on the planet,» said economist Jeffrey Sachs, Scientific American columnist and Earth Institute director.
Two degrees of warming marks the likely threshold for
widespread ecological problems, including coral reef collapse, markedly higher sea - level rise and crop failures, according to NASA.
Historical ecologists are a diverse community of scholars dedicated to bridging the gap between the natural and social sciences because as first author Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University explains «issues like climate change are not
just ecological problems — they are social ones.»
RNA - guided gene drives based on CRISPR / Cas9 have generated considerable excitement as a potential means of addressing otherwise
intractable ecological problems.
BRISBANE, Australia ---- Normally, if a major study discovers an
alleged ecological problem to be just 10 % as bad as was previously imagined, one might expect celebration to follow.
And
while ecological problems in the context of a vast coherent economy are not new — Rome knew them, IIRC — the scale is unprecedented.
The problem with the Kyoto process, critics say, is that it shifts the emphasis away from
genuine ecological problems, such as industrial, air and water pollution, to the wasteful fight against harmless gases.
Here I'll examine whether, notwithstanding that climate change is likely to be outranked by other factors when it comes to human well - being, whether it is likely to be the most important global
ecological problem if not today, at least in the foreseeable future.
«When we see steep declines in populations, as we have been documenting with both chinstrap and Adélie penguins, we know there's a much
larger ecological problem.»
So energy sources like wind or solar that do not emit greenhouse gases will not be free of environmental problems — wind power requires rather extensive land use and can be dangerous to birds, while solar panels may require the use of rare elements and the production of batteries for storing electricity that could pose their
own ecological problems.
RNA - guided gene drive elements could address many
ecological problems by altering the traits of wild organisms, but the likelihood of global spread tremendously complicates ethical development and use.
The drainage of moors, which has been practiced for centuries so as to gain arable land for farming and livestock, is in this respect a
big ecological problem.