Sentences with phrase «environmental face of the earth»

This machinery still operates in the «Holocene mode,» which emerged ≈ 10 ka ago and is characterized by a distinctive distribution of ice sheets, wind regimes, ocean currents, biomes, and deserts, something that can be perceived as the environmental face of the Earth.

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Until then, Earth Angel faces a big challenge in convincing more of the $ 40 billion film industry to care about its environmental impact, especially when the potential savings aren't huge.
We stand at the threshold of Great Waves of environmental, economic and political upheaval and change which will alter the face of Earth.
Nor would we be concerned about extraterrestrial environmental terrorists scouring us from the face of the Earth, as the 2008 version of The Day the Earth Stood Still suggested.
Slated for release in 2013, the new SimCity invites players to grapple with tough choices about energy generation, environmental costs and the responsibilities shouldered by inhabitants of a planet with finite resources — choices faced by real policymakers on the very real planet Earth.
In addition to Boschi, those facing trial are: Franco Barberi, committee vice president; Bernardo De Bernardinis, at the time vice president of Italy's Civil Protection Department and now president of the country's Institute for Environmental Protection and Research; Giulio Selvaggi, director of the National Earthquake Centre; Gian Michele Calvi, director of the European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering; Claudio Eva, an earth scientist at the University of Genoa; and Mauro Dolce, director of the office of seismic risk at the Civil Protection Department.
Today, Saturday 22nd April, is Earth Day, a global campaign to raise awareness of the environmental and climate challenges that we all face as citizens of planet eEarth Day, a global campaign to raise awareness of the environmental and climate challenges that we all face as citizens of planet earthearth.
Write on a board or chart the following list of environmental issues or problems that Earth faces:
The Surge maintains the same core formula while fundamentally changing the setting, which is now a dystopian future where Earth nears the end of its life and overpopulated cities face environmental diseases among many other issues.
Our story on the punishment of a woman in Sudan who dared wear pants brings to mind a theme that has percolated on Dot Earth for a while: the relationship among the conditions facing women (and girls) in developing countries, progress toward prospering, stable populations and, in the end, societal and environmental stability.
[Andy Revkin — Here, Mr. Obama faces the hard reality that coal is not going away, and he — like coal companies, many environmental groups, and almost all politicians — embraces the prospect of having your coal and climate, too — by capturing the CO2 and pumping it into the earth.
Professor Michael Archer, AM, FAA, DistFRSN, FRZSNSW, FACE, FWAAS, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales
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In the face of mounting support for clean coal and the billions being invested in carbon capture and storage, or C.C.S., technology, a new assessment from the University of Toronto's Munk Center for International Studies has a stern warning for policy - makers: there could be dramatic unintended environmental consequences to sequestering huge amounts of carbon dioxide in the earth's mantle.
For Earth Day 2013, we'll bring our generation's biggest environmental challenge down to size — the size of an individual faced with the consequences.»
According to the 1989 article, «A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
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