Sentences with phrase «face of climate change»

Forget about polar bears — these communities are the new face of climate change.

«US national parks increasingly important for bird conservation in face of climate change: Projected average national park may have 29 percent more species in winter, 6 percent more in summer.»

Unless we act it will become the human face of climate change.»

As French politician, member of the French Green Party and Green MEP, Pascal Durand expressed in a conference exploring hunger as the other face of climate change,

Global Commission Charts Pathway For Achieving Food Security in Face of Climate Change.

As French politician, member of the French Green Party and Green MEP, Pascal Durand expressed in a conference exploring hunger as the other face of climate change, «comme on peut le mettre sur le même balance l'agriculture et la production d'énergie?»

There is a need for a massive re-think about how we build community, rural and urban communities that are resilient, healthy and work towards strengthening self - reliance in the face of climate change.

In the face of climate change — and the reduced emissions important to corralling rising temperatures — train is the one mode of transportation that has a future.

These liberties or lack thereof influenced my worldview and it wasn't until I removed myself from my home that I began to gain a better picture of the complexities that we are confronted with in the face of climate change.

The authors note that optimum cultivation requirements for arabica coffee will likely become harder to achieve in the face of climate change, productivity will probably be reduced, and more intense management (especially irrigation) will be needed.

You can learn more about Mass Audubon's efforts to identify areas that are critical for conservation in the face of climate change by reading our Losing Ground report.

An Op Ed by Mass Audubon's Jack Clarke discussing the importance of conserving critical landscapes in the face of climate change, as the report suggests, has been published in regional papers statewide (July 20, 2014).

Protecting this land and creating a wildlife sanctuary could lead to discoveries on how best to protect the nature of Massachusetts in the face of climate change.

This year's focus is «The Face of Climate Change.»

«In the face of climate change, the Adirondack Park, as a grand experiment in protecting an intact ecosystem while balancing the economic needs of its residents, is more important than ever before,» she said.

Many of the country's 19th century infrastructures may be inappropriate in the face of climate change, Mr Brown said.

«The science is really becoming quite clear into the effects of fossil fuel extraction and consumption, and so renewable energy development is important to make our state more resilient in the face of climate change and these challenges.

These variables and the relative intactedness of these ecosystems is likely to be a critical factor in maintaining the health of montane species in the face of climate change.»

The findings paint a bleak picture for the persistence of native flowering plants in the face of climate change and could serve as a herald for future species losses in mountain ecosystems over the next century.

While the study released by Washington shows that it will be one of the most resilient crops in the face of climate change, Claude Fauquet, director of the International Laboratory for Tropical Agricultural Biotechnology at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, believes that drier temperatures in West Africa will hurt yields, but cassava will see more productivity in central and southern Africa.

The capacity to cope with altered conditions is becoming increasingly important in the face of climate change.

Water shortages are being felt around the world yet impacts vary in different places, said Gleick, adding that the human, economic, and environmental costs of doing nothing, especially in the face of climate change and environmental security threats, are high and require «new thinking.»

Lisa Palmer is the author of Hot, Hungry Planet: The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change.

Reuber Brandão, an ecologist at the University of Brasília, says the Cerrado biome had been sorely neglected in conservation plans and the park is a critical part of a corridor to preserve that diversity in the face of climate change.

«We went in with the view that they were helpless in the face of climate change and they wrecked the landscape,» Simpson says.

«In the face of climate change, it's essential that we prioritise the protection of sites that produce males not only for local breeding success, but to help support potentially vulnerable populations further south,» says Godley.

Olga Gershenzon, who chairs the board of Russian nongovernmental organization Transparent World, said in a statement the analysis «should be a clear call to action to look closely at forest management in Russia and Canada in the face of climate change.»

Mountain glaciers around the world, from the Himalayas to the Andes, are shrinking in the face of climate change — and that could pose a major threat to water resources for nearby communities.

«In the face of climate change can our engineers keep the trains running on time?

Church says reviving an extinct species like the woolly mammoth might be more justified if it also addresses an issue like habitat preservation in the face of climate change.

The scat detection dogs helped biology PhD student Alex Filazzola discover not only scat, but the importance of shrubs in preserving lizard populations in the face of climate change.

Other studies have found that plants prove more resilient in the face of climate change than anticipated, so further field experiments will be needed to determine if this gloomy prognosis is correct.

A new study offers hope for cold - water species in the face of climate change.

With its habitats shrinking and food supplies dwindling, the fate of the polar bear looks grim in the face of climate change.

Above all, the new insights into the juvenile fish under the ice are important because it's still impossible to say how polar cod populations will change in the face of climate change.

It follows the release of his encyclical calling on people around the world to act morally in the face of climate change.

«The jury's out in terms of restoration and how much success we might have in the face of climate change,» says Ferrenberg.

This oversight from our well - intentioned ancestors is biting back now, he said, especially in the face of climate change.

As people get richer, the demand for protein gets stronger, says Molly Jahn, a former undersecretary at the US Department of Agriculture, and one of the authors of Achieving Food Security in the Face of Climate Change, commissioned by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

One of the key findings from the research expedition is that temperature shapes which species are present in a given plankton ecosystem, a fact that could take on increasing importance in the face of climate change.

If this winter finds you stressed out and fighting a sinus infection, then you know something of what coral will endure in the face of climate change.

The warming, melting and potential contributions to sea level rise from glaciers in Greenland and West Antarctica in the face of climate change has long since been a serious concern.

In the face of climate change, the authors note, such flexibility could soon become enormously important.

Red knots are one of many animals shrinking in the face of climate change.

National parks must also adapt in the face of climate change, he said.

The authors suggest that their findings reinforce the importance of the U.S. National Parks to the conservation of birds in the face of climate change and the value of monitoring species distribution to better inform conservation and management strategies.

U.S. National Parks could become even more important for the conservation of bird species in the face of climate change, according to a study published March 21, 2018 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Joanna Wu from the National Audubon Society, US, and colleagues.

And there isn't a sewer in the world that doesn't need periodic cleaning to keep it functioning reliably — especially in the face of climate change.