Sentences with phrase «environmental effects i found»

The cars themselves sound fine but the environmental effects I found to be a bit muted.

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The Panel found that, «the likelihood of significant adverse environmental effects resulting from project malfunctions or accidents is very low,» but they did allow that a spill would involve significant adverse environmental effects.

In one meta - analysis, 88 % of studies found that companies that adhered to social or environmental standards showed better operational performance, and 80 % of studies showed a positive effect on stock price performance.

A new report and campaign by the environmental group finds that slashing our meat intake by 50 per cent by 2050 is an important way to stop the worst effects of climate change, and the best way to alleviate a raft of health issues linked to eating too much meat.

Growing more interested in the effect of business on the environment, Katy worked as an environmental consultant and later a researcher on socially responsible investing, helping conscientious investors to find world - changing progressive companies and avoid corporations pushing profits above people.

It found virtually no difference between the environmental effects of cloth and disposable diapers.

A simple Google search (using the keywords: disposable diapers environmental effects) can lead you to finding the real poop about the environmental effects of disposable diapers.

Next year both the European Union Environmental Commission and the U.S. National Toxicology Program will establish panels to examine the health effects of BPA based on recent findings indicating that a new assessment of this ubiquitous chemical is now needed.

At present, not much is known about the health effects that occur from the levels of VOCs found in homes, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The Quinnipiac poll finds that by a narrow four point margin, New Yorkers surveyed believe that the economic benefits of natural gas drilling, including job creation, outweigh the potential harmful environmental effects.

Polis emphasized that these generalizations were sometimes found in combination, such as overcrowding and a lack of alternative forms of nutrition (a common cannibal - related cause and effect), both of which now fall under the broader umbrella of «stressful environmental conditions.»

«With environmental chemicals, the manufacturer puts out a product, and the onus is on the regulatory bodies, environmental groups and lay public to find problems and study the effects.»

That we found any [effect] suggests this is occurring at relatively low levels,» said Wright, an associate professor of pediatrics and environmental health at Harvard.

«There is no scientific body of national or international standing that rejects the findings of human - induced effects on climate,» Peter Gleick, a scientist and president of the Pacific Institute, an environmental group, said on a conference call on Wednesday.

«We found that vegetation change may have a greater impact on the amount of stream flow in the Sierra than the direct effects of climate warming,» said lead author Ryan Bart, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB's Bren School of Environmental Science & Management.

The trial also showed that the extract detoxifies environmental carcinogens and toxicants found in cigarette smoke, and that the effect is stronger in people who lack certain genes involved in processing carcinogens.

Now researchers at Linnaeus University in Sweden and from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have found an important finding to answer this question: Individual differences have a positive and stabilizing effect on the number of moths.

The work has highlighted a potential link to environmental contaminants, after they were able to demonstrate that chemicals found in the sperm and testes of adult dogs — and in some commercially available pet foods — had a detrimental effect on sperm function at the concentrations detected.

Bond, who led the most comprehensive study to date of black carbon's environmental effects, has found that the pollutant is second only to carbon dioxide in terms of its warming impact.

As microglia are very long - lived, the scientists were keen to find out whether environmental factors change these immune cells over time and what effect this can have on brain health.

The authors speculate that possible explanations for this finding is that reflex tearing might help flush PM from the ocular surface, or that environmental PM10 levels currently in Korea are not high enough to induce adverse effects on the ocular surface.

In an unpublished report to the US Environmental Protection Agency, the researchers say they found no acute or immediate impacts on human health, though they warn that the samples were small and that they could not say anything about possible long - term effects.

Levels of neonicotinoids that we found in this study fall into ranges that could lead to detrimental health effects in bees, including CCD,» said Chensheng (Alex) Lu, associate professor of environmental exposure biology in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard Chan School and lead author environmental exposure biology in the Department of Environmental Health at Harvard Chan School and lead author Environmental Health at Harvard Chan School and lead author of the study.

Earlier work by Skinner has found epigenetic effects from a host of environmental toxicants, connecting plastics, pesticides, fungicide, dioxin and hydrocarbons to diseases and abnormalities as many as three generations later.

«The findings also strengthen our understanding that environmental risk factors that predispose people to IBD may have a stronger effect in children than adults.»

The report finds that the current regulatory practices for assessing risks or potential environmental effects of field experiments or planned releases are inadequate for gene drives.

MIT civil and environmental engineer Elfatih Eltahir studied readings from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and found that — statistically at least — there is a seesaw effect in rainfall between the Amazon and the Congo river basins.

Adoptees with high - genetic risk for schizophrenia - spectrum disorders (see below) have been found to be more sensitive to environmental effects than adoptees with low - genetic risk for the disease.

Dr Shane Maloney, an animal researcher whose findings are published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters, said: «If environmental effects are the cause of the decline, then we can expect the proportion of dark coloured Soay sheep to decrease further.»

Recent research was reported in an article in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, which found that high levels of road salt can alter the sex ratios of frogs; an article in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, which documented the effects of road salt and a common insecticide on wetland food webs; and an article in Environmental Pollution, which examined potential interactions between road salt, predators, and competitors in wetland food webs.

«Many scientists have studied similar effects from exposure to pharmaceuticals and pesticides, but now we're seeing it from chemicals found in common road salt and leaf litter,» said Max Lambert, lead author of the paper and a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.

Water Pollution from Coal includes negative health and environmental effects from the mining, processing, burning, and waste storage of coal, including acid mine drainage, thermal pollution from coal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge, and coal waste.

Great Britain's ecosystems have become less resilient to the effects of environmental change over the past 40 years, finds a study in Nature Communications.

There are several key ingredients found in this serum that help reduce skin inflammation, lock in moisture and diminish the effects of free radicals and environmental pollutants.

The environmental sound effects are appropriately distributed through the various speakers and help immerse you in the settings if you find the visions cold and uninviting.

It suggested that exposure to the natural environment could lower the effects of various mental health issues that can make it difficult for students to pay attention in the classroom and found that childhood participation in «wild» and «domesticated» nature, such as picking flowers or produce, planting trees or seeds, and caring for plants in childhood, have a positive relationship to adult environmental attitudes.

Back in late 2009, in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Los Angeles — area bird advocacy groups against City of Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS), a Los Angeles Superior Court judge found in favor of the bird groups that LAAS programs in support of trap / neuter / return (TNR) as a community cat management strategy was in violation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming coEnvironmental Quality Act (CEQA) because the agency had not conducted an environmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming coenvironmental impact study regarding the effects on the environment of sterilizing free - roaming community cats.

Ride - hailing companies Uber and Lyft will be part of a first - ever environmental study to find the companies» effect on the climate.

California's new state environmental education program will distribute an energy booklet to 6th graders that is equivocal on the greenhouse effect, downplays the impacts of burning fossil fuels, and doesn't address climate change, Climate Science Watch has found.

-- Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this section, the Administrator, taking into consideration the public health and environmental impacts of black carbon emissions, including the effects on global and regional warming, the Arctic, and other snow and ice - covered surfaces, shall propose regulations under the existing authorities of this Act to reduce emissions of black carbon or propose a finding that existing regulations promulgated pursuant to this Act adequately regulate black carbon emissions.

«There are well - founded fears that the number of people fleeing untenable environmental conditions may grow exponentially as the world experiences the effects of climate change,» Dr Bogardi said.

The Benefits and Vulnerabilities of a Warming Europe Scientists evaluate the economic and environmental impacts of a warmer climate on European countries, finding a range of effects on tourism, electricity demand, and ecosystem production.

Generally speaking, we found that coal was somewhat «undertaxed,» gasoline was about neutral, and natural gas «overtaxed» compared to their adverse environmental effects.

On the basis of our results, a 1 °C rise in environmental temperature would account for over 100 000 new diabetes cases per year in the USA alone, given a population of nearly 322 million people in 2015.38 These findings emphasize the importance of future research into the effects of environmental temperature on glucose metabolism and the onset of diabetes, especially in view of the global rise in temperatures with a new record set for the warmest winter in the USA last year.39

Among other findings, the research did show that no harmful environmental effects were noted in creating an artificially generated iron induced plankton bloom, and that very large quantities of carbon dioxide are indeed sequestered from the atmosphere.

If economists can help us to find an efficient way to address environmental problems, including climate change, we will minimize adverse effects on growth, which is humanity's best way to reduce poverty and increase employment.

Another study detailing the negative environmental effects of continued tar sands development in Canada, and how independent review finds much greater impact that either the industry or government cares to

All too often we hear of off grid living as a form of isolationism, or a retreat from coming social and environmental challenges, but the fact is that we are all interconnected — and many of the back - to - the - land types will find themselves equally impacted by the effects of resource depletion or climate change.

Kevin Trenberth, the head of climate analysis at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), believes the new study's main finding is accurate, but thinks the effects of some of the environmental factors on hurricane intensity might have been underestimated.

The findings come a year after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) strengthened its National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ground - level ozone from an annual average of 80 ppb to 75 ppb to reflect growing evidence of the harmful health effects of ozone.