Sentences with phrase «environmental disruption»

It should now top the list of all efforts to prevent further environmental disruption in the rich nations.

This topic has become particularly important as many environmental disruptions including climate change, habitat loss and species introductions act by radically altering species distributions.

Thus, homelessness can be understood as a result of a developmental trajectory defined by successive environmental disruptions, each of which places individuals at greater risk for homelessness and associated risk factors.

Here's a snippet (as you read, keep in mind that islands are particularly vulnerable to serious environmental disruption from introduced species):

That vulnerability puts them, and poor communities like theirs, in the crosshairs of environmental disruption expected from climate change.

This study showed that soldiers experiencing «ongoing environmental disruptions from gunfire and helicopter sounds» still had reduced anxiety and improved sleep from yoga practice, so it's much more likely to help us with our everyday challenges!

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In an effort to head off opposition from local communities, the paper contains plans to minimise environmental disruption.

At one extreme, he shows how environmental disruption from climate change, deforestation and increased...

The bottom line, of course, is the uncomfortable reality that adapting to climate change is and will be a prime priority while mitigating emissions remains, for most countries, a generations - spanning long - term goal — unless and until some epic environmental disruption forces it to the front of the line.

According to Essam El - Hinnawi definition form 1985 environmental refugees as — those people who have been forced to leave their traditional habitat, temporarily or permanently, because of a marked environmental disruption (natural or triggered by people) that jeopardised their existence and / or seriously affected the quality of their life.

Unlike the end - Cretaceous, the PETM was not a big extinction event but it generated enough environmental disruption to cause a high turnover of land animals, the evolution of ever smaller animals (the «Lilliput effect»), and a mass extinction of tiny shell - making creatures that live on the sea bed (benthic foraminifera).

The toxic byproducts in China etc. are beside the point, and the mass environmental disruption, destruction, and corruption are too.

Yes conservation is important, not least in ensuring that species can migrate to deal with climate changes and other environmental disruptions, but the scale of human activity is such that we are collectively making the future ecological conditions of the planet.

Key message: «Temperature rises above 2 °C -LSB-...] are likely to cause major societal and environmental disruptions through the rest of the century and beyond.

It was irresponsible of the mainstream media to talk about the Texas storm, Harvey, while essentially never mentioning its connection to climate change, let alone the strong connection of population growth to both global warming and environmental disruption in general.

This makes them vulnerable to pollution from their watersheds and good early warning indicators of environmental disruption.»

There are only 23 recognized species alive today, and of these 10 are considered to be endangered, according to the IUCN red list, due to ongoing environmental disruption and human activity.

Supporters say limiting heat - trapping gases is needed to protect human health and the environment; the state faces severe economic and environmental disruption from rising sea levels; increased risks of drought and wildfire, and other climate - change impacts.

Elders were taken on well - site tours, which is important, because the company's super pads reduce the environmental disruption compared with conventional sites.

Apr. 8, 2013 — At some point, scientists may be able to bring back extinct animals, and perhaps early humans, raising questions of ethics and environmental disruption.

Poor communities, such as East Boston, are on the front lines of the environmental disruptions expected as a result of global warming

A reminder that, when it comes to dangers from environmental disruption, it's often the least fortunate who are at the greatest risk.

«A healthy cat — or any healthy mammal — can feel the stress of environmental disruption and exhibit sickness behaviors as a result,» says researcher Tony Buffington, professor of veterinary clinical sciences at Ohio State University, in a news release.

I know that you have been deeply troubled by the environmental disruptions in China and the enormity of their consequences, in particular the Three Gorges hydroelectric dam project.

This has led to environmental disruption from the Amazon to the Arctic.

The films get behind the caricatured representations of cultural and environmental disruption that are all too common in ultra-compressed television reports.

We have a much harder time with less visible, and more incremental, environmental disruptions.