Sentences with phrase «environmental monitoring threaten»

Present lack of access to space, the overall low priority of solar influences in global change research, and continued reductions of Earth environmental monitoring threaten the accomplishment of this task.

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Together with nineteen other sites, these are part of the Okinawa Environmental Observation Network Churamori Project which monitors the island's plants and animals — many of which are either endemic or threatened.

In a country where weak enforcement and a lack of public participation threatens environmental monitoring, corporate transparency — and the accountability to the public they promote — can play a crucial role in reducing local pollution.

Just last September, an acoustic monitoring program was established by the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in alliance with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for this very reason: to track whales» seasonal migration patterns and provide information to New York state policymakers who develop strategies and management plans to protect these threatened mammals.This listening system originated with the thirteen high - tech buoys deployed around Massachusetts Bay which sounds an alarm to ship captains warning them of the presence of whales so that they will reduce the sped of their vessels to 10 knots.