Sentences with phrase «environmental pressures»

Over the course of a few decades, if not sooner, hundreds of millions of people may be compelled to relocate because of environmental pressures.

I suppose this makes some sort of evolutionary sense, in that periods of sleep deprivation might be associated with environmental pressures on early humans and therefore pressure to eat to useful?

Studies by social psychiatrists emphasize the role played by environmental pressures on the development of personality illnesses.

Clearly smaller population reduces environmental pressures, and is likely to be non linear in benefits to a small degree as well.

This can be used to justify increased economic expansion, and hence likely increased environmental pressures, when it's not as aggressively needed.

Individual colleges and universities around the globe have been at the forefront of addressing climate change and other environmental pressures.

Only now does it concern itself about the use of plastic due to external environmental pressures.

There is need, however, to say a little more about particular environmental pressures.

What is more likely, however, is that the role will evolve as different environmental pressures increasingly find their way onto the business radar.

The best explanation for this turnover is that whenever environmental pressure increased dramatically, certain fauna went extinct while others evolved into new forms.

The exact environmental pressures that pushed humans toward higher intelligence also remain a matter of speculation.

Throughout their evolution, they have lived in nutrient - rich water, so they haven't experienced environmental pressure to form colonies near food sources.

Some so called climate skeptics are indeed politically and economically motivated; so are environmental pressure groups.

While awareness of environmental pressures is driving some of this change, government legislation is also playing a big part.

In short, a move to lower fertility rates will mean healthier children, a much faster growth in living standards and reduced environmental pressures.

But concern about the approach of Exxon Mobil has come not just from environmental pressure groups, but from bands of scientists, including the 350 - year - old Royal Society in Britain, which last September sent a letter of protest to Exxon Mobil.

In the United States, however, fighting parasitic trypanosomes isn't a significant concern, while lifestyle and environmental pressures such as obesity promote the rise in suPAR levels.

The Congressmen accused Schneiderman of secretly collaborating with environmental pressure groups since a two - day workshop in 2012.

Evolution only occurs when environmental pressures result in an alteration of gene frequency in a population.

To figure out what's really happening within an organism — or within a particular organ or cell — researchers are linking the genome with large - scale data about the output of those genes at specific times, in specific places, in response to specific environmental pressures.

At the same time, Kennedy has lashed out at local environmental pressure groups at the other end of the country that are trying to block a big solar energy development in the Mojave Desert that he has invested in.

Ultimately, both companies» dividend is likely to face environmental pressures over the next few years.

This amendment is supported by many environmental pressure groups, including Friends of the Earth's «Fix It or Ditch It» campaign.

To answer this question, we analyse the relationships between 7 indicators of national environmental pressure (relative to biophysical boundaries) and 11 indicators of social outcomes (relative to sufficiency thresholds) for over 150 countries.

The novel traces the wealthy Porters» time on the Point from the 1940s to the late 1990s, revealing issues of class difference, generational tensions, and environmental pressure along the way.

It's much more the fundamental economics,» said Simm of Impax, citingincreasing demand, advances in technology, and environmental pressures as the main drivers.

The theory is beautifully consistent with what is observed in the natural world though, and it is possible to observe species, including humans, continue to evolve in response to changing environmental pressures.

While discarding food, we are not only wasting calories and nutrients that could potentially nourish others but also wasting resources used for food production and exerting additional environmental pressure (e.g. greenhouse gas emissions) in vain, which can be avoiding by saving food.

«The available knowledge from life - cycle - assessments... seems limited, despite the fact that for those issues many biofuels cause higher environmental pressures than fossil fuels,» the report says.

«Salmon farming is a huge business in the UK, Norway and beyond, and while it does reduce the pressure on wild fish stocks, it can also create its own environmental pressures through genetic disruption.

Animals like Sclerocormus that lived just after a mass extinction also reveal how life responds to huge environmental pressures.

«Our theory explains specifically why primates developed super intelligence but dinosaurs — who faced many of the same environmental pressures and had more time to do so — did not.

Whales are also under slightly less environmental pressure to reproduce than terrestrial mammals because their young grow quickly, nourished by the abundant, high - protein diet available in the ocean.

Because the timing of those life - history milestones can be affected by various environmental pressures, the tusks provide a way to «look directly at how the animals themselves were impacted by, and responded to, changes in their environment,» Cherney said.

The study, which appears in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, offers new insights into these selective environmental pressures that guide butterfly eye evolution.

These multi-day mouse experiments involved sustained antibiotic dosing and demonstrated that the system is robust even when subjected to potentially significant environmental pressures,» said co-first author Benjamin Pruitt, a former Staff Research Scientist at the Wyss Institute and now Lead R&D Engineer at ReadCoor Inc..

Though the benefits of using grafted transplants are now fully recognized worldwide, understanding the rootstock - scion interactions under variable environmental pressures remains vital for grafting - mediated crop improvement.

From which we may deduce that an individual can be «modified» merely by the effect of environment, but that fresh characters will not be transmitted by heredity or will be transmitted only with difficulty and perhaps even then only because of some sustained environmental pressure repeatedly exerted upon a large number of generations.

Unfortunately, because of close proximity to human environs, they are also subject to abnormal environmental pressures.

Canada's oil sands (and the Keystone Pipeline that will bring their petroleum to the United States) must be evaluated on environmental and ethical grounds that compare them to real world alternatives to them — not to some utopian energy resource that exists only in the minds of idealists, ideologues and special interest environmental pressure groups.

But well - funded environmental pressure groups vilify, attack and stymie their use, callously causing needless tragedy and suffering.

I think we have three key problems of climate change, environmental pressures generally, and growing danger of resource scarcity, and they strongly interrelate, but knowing the appropriate individual response is hard, and not even the experts can say with any certainty.

CEI President Lawson Bader writes that their reasoning is to gain access to information they have failed to retrieve from theEPA including «cell phone and text message records that we believe will show the degree to which left - leaning environmental pressure groups have had unfettered, back - channel access to EPA leadership.»

After university, I joined Walhi [Indonesia's largest environmental pressure group] and became coordinator for forest investigations.