Trends to Watch is WRI's annual forecast of emerging issues that will have major impacts on
environmental coverage in 2008.
Not exact matches
Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines
in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments
in new markets; breaches
in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes
in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance
coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions
in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility
in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions
in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations
in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity
in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays
in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases
in the price of, or major changes or reduction
in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations
in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments
in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and
environmental regulatory regimes
in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors»
in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The first feel encouraged at the way the two main parties have embraced the
environmental agenda and at the prevalence of
coverage in the media.
Telvock's
environmental coverage is underwritten
in part by the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo.
But because Aspen has such high name recognition and because having a ski resort involved
in the story is odd and unique, the press
coverage looked something like this: «12 states, three
environmental groups, even a ski resort, have weighed
in,
in support of this lawsuit.»
«There is not enough water to sustain a complete
coverage with continuous grass vegetation, which leads to the gap pattern,» explains Stephan Getzin, an ecologist at the Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research
in Leipzig, Germany, who was not involved with the new work.
In 2013 and 2014 the New England Newspaper and Press Association awarded her first place in environmental reporting and second place in investigative reporting, respectively, for her coverage of the New Bedford Harbor Superfund sit
In 2013 and 2014 the New England Newspaper and Press Association awarded her first place
in environmental reporting and second place in investigative reporting, respectively, for her coverage of the New Bedford Harbor Superfund sit
in environmental reporting and second place
in investigative reporting, respectively, for her coverage of the New Bedford Harbor Superfund sit
in investigative reporting, respectively, for her
coverage of the New Bedford Harbor Superfund site.
The new study, «Media
coverage of pediatric
environmental health risks and its effects on mothers» protective behaviors,» appeared
in the online version of Risk Analysis, a publication of the Society for Risk Analysis.
With the games set to begin Aug. 5
in Rio, IU experts
in economics, public health, media studies, cybersecurity, public and
environmental affairs, and business are available to discuss issues including Zika and other health concerns, how
coverage of the games might frame discussion on other topics, and Brazil's ability to pull off a worldwide event and its long - term future.
The second, featured
in * Science *, provides an initial assessment of potential
environmental and security effects, an analysis of regulatory
coverage and recommendations to ensure responsible development and testing prior to use.
Our news
coverage focuses on stories about genomics and human medicine, as well as the ways
in which scientists are using genomics to find biological solutions to energy needs and
environmental problems.
Santa Fe, NM About Blog The mission of Outside magazine is to inspire participation
in the world outside through award - winning
coverage of the sports, people, places, adventures, discoveries,
environmental issues, health and fitness, gear and apparel, style and culture that define the active lifestyle.
In CEQ's NEPA regulations, «' tiering» refers to the coverage of general matters in broader environmental impacts statements... with subsequent narrower statements or environmental analyses... incorporating by reference the general discussions and concentrating solely on the issues specific to the statement subsequently prepared» (40 CFR 1508.28
In CEQ's NEPA regulations, «' tiering» refers to the
coverage of general matters
in broader environmental impacts statements... with subsequent narrower statements or environmental analyses... incorporating by reference the general discussions and concentrating solely on the issues specific to the statement subsequently prepared» (40 CFR 1508.28
in broader
environmental impacts statements... with subsequent narrower statements or
environmental analyses... incorporating by reference the general discussions and concentrating solely on the issues specific to the statement subsequently prepared» (40 CFR 1508.28).
Timberland also received
coverage in Women's Wear Daily, Footwear Industry, Forbes.com, Off - Road, Rubber News,
Environmental Leader, Sustainablog, GreenBiz, the Winston - Salem Journal and the Traverse City Record - Eagle.
3Based on average of
Environmental, Social and Governance scores applied to the universe of ESG - ranked stocks
in the BofAML US
coverage universe Past performance does not guarantee future results.
With
coverage (and limited
environmental footprint)
in mind, we've asked a few bloggers about the best places they reached by bus, and the answers were just as varied as the many highways
in the region.
It is no secret that I am a critic of sensationalism
in the
coverage of
environmental issues and that I have a philosophical preference for reality - based policies over those based on the ideologically - based fantasies of those I critique.
Comedy Show Tackles Clean Energy From the Earth to America
environmental comedy show, through National Energy Wasting Day to our
coverage of The Onion's «Obligatory Green Issue», we TreeHuggers are not averse to the occasional joke
in our quest
To my satisfaction, the Times published my letter to the editor on this (responding to the «Eco-tecture» issue of the Magazine); to my dismay, they retained my criticism of one particularly egregious sentence (Mark Svenvold's «By installing a solar - hydrogen system, almost any house, it seems, could go seriously green — and without a whiff of the sacrifice or changes
in lifestyle that sometimes come from the more puritanical quarters of the
environmental movement») while removing my broader complaint about their
coverage (which regularly implies that even a «whiff» of sacrifice is indeed puritanical, by definition).
Below is a video clip from the 2006 Society of
Environmental Journalists conference
in which Mr. Morano and some journalists (including yours truly) explore
coverage of climate.
For example, there is no question
in my mind, that you have created one of the go - to sites for news
coverage of AGW and related
environmental issues.
«More work remains to be done to both address the lack of available information on
environmental policy issues and reduce serious shortcomings
in the quality, geographical
coverage, or timeliness of the available data.»
Joe Davis's valuable daily digest of
environmental coverage for the Society of Environmental Journalists includes links to several significant news stories (see below), and in the meantime I'm querying methane and Arctic specialists about the startling story from The Independent (UK) on Tuesday reporting on a «methane time bomb» discovered by an international expedition along the continental shelf
environmental coverage for the Society of
Environmental Journalists includes links to several significant news stories (see below), and in the meantime I'm querying methane and Arctic specialists about the startling story from The Independent (UK) on Tuesday reporting on a «methane time bomb» discovered by an international expedition along the continental shelf
Environmental Journalists includes links to several significant news stories (see below), and
in the meantime I'm querying methane and Arctic specialists about the startling story from The Independent (UK) on Tuesday reporting on a «methane time bomb» discovered by an international expedition along the continental shelf off Siberia.
The complete lack of any significant
coverage in the U.S. media of
environmental issues
in general, and global warming
in particular, is not surprising.
Curtis Brainard, who assesses
environmental coverage for the Columbia Journalism Review online,
in a comprehensive piece on the move, said: «[T] he decision to eliminate the positions seems particularly misguided at a time when world events would seem to warrant expanding science and
environmental staff.»
The crew at Journalism.org, which is run by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence
in Journalism, had already noted
in a year - end wrapup that
environmental coverage, including climate, was down somewhat from 2007 and 2008, representing 1.5 percent of overall
coverage.
In the piece, top Times editors insist that this move will not diminish or dilute the paper's commitment to sustained, effective
environmental coverage.
Liberalizing climate - friendly goods and technologies
in WTO
environmental goods negotiations: product
coverage, modalities, challenges and the way forward.
Through our global network of local writers, we are continuing our award - winning
coverage of global and local
environmental challenges, with a focus on the people for whom the ecosphere matters
in a direct way: rural dwellers who have little means to protect themselves against adverse conditions; communities that need to switch to sustainable development
in order to survive; poor women and children, who are the most vulnerable
in natural disasters.Sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and The World Bank (WB), IPS also maintains the award - winning Tierramérica, a specialised information service on environment and development.
The
Environmental Defense Fund's plan to send up a satellite
in two or three years to monitor methane emissions on earth from space generated headlines (some of the
coverage here and here) and at some point can add to the knowledge base useful
in advancing emissions goals.
Of course, neither federal agency pointed out
in its press releases about August that the continuous global
coverage area of its temperature records is «extremely small,» as the Science and
Environmental Policy Project (SEPP) put it.
When this research was published, it was tweeted by President Obama and received media
coverage all over the world, with the paper being awarded the «best article» prize by the journal
Environmental Research Letters
in 2013.
The «Impacts and Adaptation» chapter prompted press
coverage, including a prominent story
in the New York Times, on how the chapter suggested a new acknowledgement by the Administration of the science pointing to the reality of human - induced climate change and a range of likely adverse societal and
environmental consequences.
High - calibre chapter authors and extensive subject
coverage make it valuable to people with an interest
in weather and climate forecasting and
environmental science, from graduate students to researchers.
We continue our
coverage of this year's Goldman
Environmental Prize with two more winners: Manny Calonzo of the Philippines, who took on the use of the neurotoxin lead
in paint; and Claire Nouvian of France, who successfully campaigned to protect the European Union's deep sea from harmful fishing practices.
Despite recent press
coverage about the violence against international
environmental defenders, another prominent figure has been murdered
in cold blood.
The report
in question — «Post-Partisan Power» — received significant
coverage, primarily because of its sponsorship: a combination of a prominent Republican - oriented Washington think tank, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and an equally prominent Democratic - oriented Washington think tank, the Brooking Institution (and a third partner, the Breakthrough Institute, a California - based
environmental think tank).
Historically, media
coverage of climate change has followed international and domestic efforts to take action, starting
in the mid-1980s by the United National
Environmental Program and World Meteorological Organization.
Society of
Environmental Journalists The 2006 First Place Award for Reporting on the Environment for «Borderlands» by Molly Peterson
in recognition for outstanding
coverage, radio reporting: large market.
News that the New York Times is closing its
environmental desk comes just a week after The Daily Climate reported that worldwide
coverage of climate change continued a three - year slide
in 2012 — and that among the five largest U.S. dailies, the Times published the most stories and had the biggest increase
in coverage.
Terra - i, a real - time deforestation tracking system that combines satellite
coverage with on - the - ground processing and mapping has launched
in advance of the United Nation's
environmental conference
in Brazil.
For many journalists, especially those working
in developing countries,
coverage of sensitive
environmental issues is severely constrained by a lack of accessible information and data.
The new regulation is drafted
in line with China's Energy Conservation Law, which took effect on April 1 and has received good
coverage by China
Environmental Law Blog.
A May 15, 2007, posting
in the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) website featured an article titled, «Help Keep SEJ And The environment In The Spotlight,» lionizing Borenstein for his loyal service to the ideology espoused by Al Gore, Bill McKibben, and Ross Gelbspan: «Sensational, sordid or even silly stories always seem to crowd out serious coverage of important issues like climate change, environmental health and sustainabilit
in the Society of
Environmental Journalists (SEJ) website featured an article titled, «Help Keep SEJ And The environment In The Spotlight,» lionizing Borenstein for his loyal service to the ideology espoused by Al Gore, Bill McKibben, and Ross Gelbspan: «Sensational, sordid or even silly stories always seem to crowd out serious coverage of important issues like climate change, environmental health and su
Environmental Journalists (SEJ) website featured an article titled, «Help Keep SEJ And The environment
In The Spotlight,» lionizing Borenstein for his loyal service to the ideology espoused by Al Gore, Bill McKibben, and Ross Gelbspan: «Sensational, sordid or even silly stories always seem to crowd out serious coverage of important issues like climate change, environmental health and sustainabilit
In The Spotlight,» lionizing Borenstein for his loyal service to the ideology espoused by Al Gore, Bill McKibben, and Ross Gelbspan: «Sensational, sordid or even silly stories always seem to crowd out serious
coverage of important issues like climate change,
environmental health and su
environmental health and sustainability.
Diplomats should promote fossil fuels
in response to criticism Financial Post «Facing challenges about Canada's
environmental record from the foreign business community, Canadian diplomats were urged to continue touting fossil fuels
in messages crafted by the Alberta government to «temper negative
coverage» of the oil and gas industry, says a newly released internal government report.»
The Goldman
Environmental Prize may not get the same
coverage as some more famous awards, but its recipients are no less influential —
in fact, many of them go on to elected office (or to
More Clinton Global Initiative
coverage in TreeHugger Clinton Global Initiative 2007: Overall Impact Millions May Gain Access to Clean Water After Clinton Global Initiative «Mega-Commitment» Clinton Global Initiative Highlights: Strategies to Improve Maternal, Newborn & Child Health Bill Clinton on
Environmental Preservation and NGOs Highlights from the 1st day of the Clinton Global Initiative
That slight drop
in coverage comes despite the fact that the single biggest week of
environmental coverage (5.4 % of the newshole) since the NCI began
in January 2007 occurred from May 18 - 24, 2009, when President Obama announced new emission standards for cars.
The next biggest spikes
in coverage in the past three years included the week of April 1 - 6, 2007, (5.3 % of the newshole) when the Supreme Court ruled that the
Environmental Protection Agency had the authority to regulate car emissions, and the week of January 28 - February 2, 2007, when a UN climate report found that humans were very likely the cause of climate change (4.9 %).
Thus far
in 2009, only 1.5 % of the
coverage studied has been about
environmental issues.