Sentences with phrase «few changes to the environment»

Not exact matches

Premier Alan Carpenter abandoned the economic tigers of India for leopards incapable of changing their spots when he returned home last Friday to deal with CCC findings against his Environment Minister of only a few months, who discussed his need for fundraising with lobbyist Julian Grill while saying he was considering overturning a decision detrimental to one of Mr Grill's clients.

«The political environment,» «uncertain tax policy,» «failure to address over-regulation, job creation, and keeping business in the US,» and «I see no major changes by our governing bodies to improve the situation at hand,» are just a few.

Ohanian would like to see a few changes made to reflect the current startup environment.

Although the interest rate environment has remained relatively consistent for the past few years, there is reason to believe that may be changing.

A few lines further on he adds that «every organism requires an environment of friends, partly to shield it from violent changes, and partly to supply it with its wants.»

On the other hand, it appeared that within those few millennia any object could be arbitrarily displaced and removed to another point without undergoing any change in its environment or in itself.

no one is entitled to think that they should win but the environment that you are put in makes a person weigh things better... this is the reason that a stoke fan wont even dream of winning the league but we are arsenal and we've been winning it and we feel that we are only inches away from winning it every season... change our stadium to britania, greatly reduce the ticket prices, sell the few wc players that we have, get a new amateur manager, reduce everything and no one will pressure you to win anything but because we are what we are we will continue craving for trophies

Not only have children's play environments dramatically changed in the last few decades, but also the time children have to play has decreased.

You may need to make a few changes to ensure the sleep environment is safe for a baby, but this rarely involves making a purchase.

Launching the campaign, environment secretary Hilary Benn said 40 per cent of the UK's emissions come from homes and travel, but too few people are making real changes to cut their energy use.

«The potential for the organisms to evolve in response to a rapidly changing environment is often downplayed, even though very few studies have examined the extent to which species might adapt,» said Michael Logan, who recently received a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the National Science Foundation.

But especially in such a rare coral species, a tiny boost of a few new individuals could make a big difference in their genetic diversity, allowing their populations to adapt and become more resilient to the changing environment in the oceans.»

«Species with smaller geographical ranges are naturally more sensitive to environmental change, and if the same community of species is also highly specialized to forage on few food resources, it will be less capable of adapting to a changing environment» says co-author and Assistant Professor Bo Dalsgaard from the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate.

To enact a fully fledged Delta Plan, says Saleemul Huq, a senior fellow in the climate - change group at the International Institute for Environment and Development in London, will require several billion dollars over the next few years.

But most initiatives share the goal of providing an immersive environment to equip participants with specific knowledge and skills over a few days or weeks — and hopefully offering a nice change of pace from the daily grind of research and some fun along the way.

Scientists used up - to - date fossil records and improved analytical tools to find that, in the few million years prior to the asteroid impact that created the Yucatan's Chicxulub crater in Mexico, Earth was experiencing a major transformation in its environment, including widespread volcanic activity, changing sea levels and varying temperatures.

The Sun is a pretty reliable part of our day, so having it gone for a few moments allows us to study the reaction of animals to an abrupt change in their environment.

Keep changing the milk and after a few batches they will micro-adapt to their new environment.

In this short article, I would like to suggest a few refinements to the original 2013 ATD Competency Model as the last 4 years brought about comprehensive changes to the profession altering Learning and Development work environment and required skill set.

We need to be powerful advocates for much - needed investment on the site, recognising that changes to the environment over the past few months have already brought many tangible gains for staff and students.

It's one of the only smartphones in the last few years I have ever seen that lacks this feature, and while it's not a show stopper, it's inconvenient to have to go into the device's setting to manually change the brightness level of the display in different lighting environments.

«The major changes in the lending environment over the last few years demanded that we take a different approach to building a score that will continue to perform consistently well in various situations,» said James Wehmann, executive vice president of scores at FICO, in a statement announcing the upgrade in March.

Relative to the radical changes any animal faces in a shelter or a new home — new people, rules, commands, environment and hostile pets, to mention only a few — a new name is the least of his concerns.

In this article, we are talking about other dogs but the behavior could be fear / anxiety with people, noises, touch, new surroundings or changes in the environment, to name a few.

A: Sometimes a few quick changes in the dog's environment and the owners» interactions with the dog are enough to create improvement.

I switched back to Tidy Cat because I wanted to eliminate the change in his environment which I suspected was the cause (as illogical as it seemed) and with a few days for the toxins to dissipate, he is back to not being bothered at all by the television.

These challenges range from anything like a mirrored world, having limited fuel, having to get a perfect shot streak, the environment reacting like a disco, with everything changing colors every few seconds and many more.

Over the past few decades, the military has struggled to create an effective urban camouflage uniform because the environment is constantly changing.

DR PETER COX: (Referring to the United Kingdom): «We're talking about a change from er a lush, moist climate, environment like this, to a North African climate in just a few decades or a hundred years.»

The share of the public saying climate change is due to human activity is about the same as when last asked in a 2009 Pew Research survey, but more now say there is no solid evidence of warming (25 % today, up from 11 % in 2009) and fewer say that warming is occurring due to natural patterns in the environment (23 % today, down from 36 % in 2009).

Earlier last year, following an article reviewing 6 (also alarmist) books on the environment including Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Nicholas Stern's report, and George Monbiot's Heat, we discovered that, inconveniently, May had taken a few liberties with the facts himself, citing a single study, referenced in the Stern Report to make the claim that» 15 — 40 per cent of species «were vulnerable to extinction at just 2 degrees of warming, and that oil companies were responsible for a conspiracy to spread misinformation, and prevent action on climate change.

If scientists can demonstrate to policymakers that we would see significantly fewer and less intense extreme weather events by putting the brakes on our emissions then it might lead to the necessary action to protect society and the environment from the worst outcomes of climate change.»

In part, they attribute this lack of coverage to a modern media environment where very few stories can survive more than a few 24 - hour news cycles, which is «prohibitive for raising awareness about slowly growing threats such as climate change.»

In the last few years we realised something important: there is a huge climate movement in Europe on the local and national levels, fighting for the environment, educating people on the environment, resisting dirty energy projects, promoting democratic clean energy... But there is very little cross-border connection between groups and movements, which allows decision makers and the media to water down the size and importance of our movements, and claim that there isn't enough public pressure for action on climate change.

Utilising the EU's Sentinel satellite network, thousands of land and marine based sensors, millions of readings every hour and a century long archive of data, it will generate the most up to date view of the global environment and predict future changes on timescales of just a few days to decades in advance.

Abstract: An evaluation of analyses sponsored by the predecessor to the U.K. Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) of the global impacts of climate change under various mitigation scenarios (including CO2 stabilization at 550 and 750 ppm) coupled with an examination of the relative costs associated with different schemes to either mitigate climate change or reduce vulnerability to various climate - sensitive hazards (namely, malaria, hunger, water shortage, coastal flooding, and losses of global forests and coastal wetlands) indicates that, at least for the next few decades, risks and / or threats associated with these hazards would be lowered much more effectively and economically by reducing current and future vulnerability to those hazards rather than through stabilization.

As I understand it, if (for me to push it to an extreme), El Nino increases to a «permanent» state because of (human) AGW - global warmingclimate change, climate distortion, etc., you will still have the potential for a few hurricanes even in an El - Nino environment.

It's one of the most demanding working environments; every few weeks or months you need to understand and account for new technologies changing the nature of IT.

The entry of more and more US - headquartered firms in the London legal market in the past few years has brought notable changes to the competitive environment in the City.

Continuing price escalation is the result of moderate construction and high investor interest in this sector, despite moderating demand for office space over the last few years due to changes in the workplace environment.

A few months ago, I wrote about some significant changes that three New York City - based companies made to their built environments as a direct result of Superstorm Sandy.