Sentences with phrase «environmental research totaled»
And only 0.2 percent of that R&D funding went to green building; all of energy, general science, natural resources, and environmental research totaled 8 percent.
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Perhaps the grimmest statistic in the entire book is that «over the last two decades the total global investment in agricultural environmental research and development has amounted to less than one percent of the total spent on armaments».
New York, NY — The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has provided a total of $ 5.2 million to the Australasian Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation (AGIRF) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) to study environmental factors that influence the development of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), which have been rising in Asia.
Up to 50 million Americans are estimated to have an autoimmune condition, * and annual direct healthcare treatment costs for these patients total $ 100 billion.1 Nearly 100 different diseases have been classified as autoimmune in nature, with 40 more suspected.1 IFM's 2018 Annual International Conference (AIC), «Solving the Puzzle of Autoimmunity: The Interplay of Gut, Genes, and Environment,» focuses on the exploding research and therapies around the interconnected roles of intestinal permeability, genetic disruptors, and various environmental triggers that coalesce to create autoimmune disease.
She is an environmental anthropologist currently researching how fishery systems are being remade by enclosure and privatization processes and the total environment of change facing Arctic Indigenous communities.
Arjun Makhijani, President of Institute for Environmental and Energy Research, Amory Lovins, co-founder and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and Rifkin have all demonstrated how a nuclear «renaissance» — to replace the 400 old reactors now rattling apart worldwide and get to the total of 1,600 that Rifkin says are needed for a minimum impact on climate disruption — would require that we build three new reactors every 30 days for 40 years.