Sentences with phrase «ecosystem damage»

Across the globe, billions of dollars are spent annually on repairing ecosystems damaged by people.

Every year, sulfur dioxide causes thousands of premature deaths, respiratory ailments, heart disease and a host of ecosystem damages.

This type of climbing has similar potential for ecosystem damage as roped rock climbing, they note, plus a couple of additional ones: Boulderers often clear the ground below of rocks and logs so that they can place crash pads in case of falls, and they may be more likely to trample anything at the top of a boulder or cliff, rather than coming directly down.

Introducing animal analogues of their extinct cousins might help repair otherwise irreparable ecosystem damage.

Marine scientist Don Boesch on the fight to restore ecosystems damaged by the Deepwater Horizon disaster

There is still time to mitigate unmanageable climate changes and repair ecosystem damages, provided we reorient our attitude toward nature and, thereby, toward ourselves.

Collateral ecosystem damage would do more harm than good.

The scientists describe naturally - occurring mercury levels similar to man - made contamination found today near smelters, where significant aquatic ecosystem damage has also been experienced.

«Temperature increases beyond 1.0 °C may elicit rapid, unpredictable, and non-linear responses that could lead to extensive ecosystem damage,» the report said, suggesting there is nothing necessarily «safe» about a two degree limit.

Similarly, Stilley deflected attention away from the notion of permanent ecosystem damage as a result of coal mining.

SRM may be expected to result in ecosystem damage and resulting human health effects through indirect mechanisms such as damage to, or contamination of, agricultural products and wildlife.

Pouring millions of gallons of oil and dispersants into an area already greatly stressed by upstream pollution, atmospheric fall - out, fifty years of industrial activity (44,000 wells, 33,000 miles of pipelines), shoreline trauma, and ecosystem damage by decades of large - scale fishing is a recipe for short and long - term disaster.

In a letter publishing Monday in Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment, Norma Fowler and Tim Keitt, both professors in the Department of Integrative Biology, examine what would happen if more of Texas» roughly 1,200 miles of border with Mexico were to be walled off, contributing to habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation and ecosystem damage.

Finally, we need to institute civil actions to force them to pay for pollution of the air and water, emissions of carbon dioxide, and resulting health and ecosystem damage.