Sentences with phrase «for irreversible losses»

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Thompson and Lengyel are looking into the possibility of using the presence of HAP as an early warning signal for AMD risk with a hope that this will aid early intervention before patients have suffered irreversible vision loss.

«Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of irreversible blindness in the world, and in the early stages patients usually have no symptoms and are not aware they are developing permanent vision loss,» says Director of the UNSW Centre for Eye Health Professor Michael Kalloniatis.

For humans, the loss of limbs is almost always an irreversible catastrophe.

These results offer new hope for the millions of people suffering from, or at risk of developing, liver failure — an increasingly common condition that results in progressive and irreversible loss of liver function.

AMD, a major cause of irreversible vision loss in the elderly, results from death of cells critical for vision: RPE and photoreceptor cells.

If ice sheet disintegration reaches a point such that the dynamics and momentum of the process take over, at that point reducing greenhouse gases may be unable to prevent major ice sheet mass loss, sea level rise of many meters, and worldwide loss of coastal cities — a consequence that is irreversible for practical purposes.

Research has shown that the impact of summer learning loss, especially for at - risk students, is devastating and often irreversible.

The negative impact of summer learning loss — especially for lower - income youth — is devastating and often irreversible.

This means that affected dogs need to take exogenous insulin for the rest of their life to control their blood glucose levels after the irreversible destruction and functional loss of pancreas beta cells has occurred.

By the time your pet starts showing other obvious signs of illness, for example lack of appetite, weight loss or low energy level, significant irreversible kidney damage has occurred.

While methane is short - lived, all it has to do is shift the global energy balance for a while, to trigger irreversible loss of tundra methane, loss of Arctic sea ice cover and more calthrate loss, then loss of ice sheets and everything else Hansen et al promise.

Mining permits are being issued despite the preponderance of scientifi c evidence that impacts are pervasive and irreversible and that mitigation can not compensate for losses.

To longer follow an obsolete course of continuous, seemingly endless economic expansion will result in further biodiversity loss, even greater degradation of the environment and, perhaps, the irreversible destruction of the planet as a fit place for human habitation.

The commentary by Parry et al advises us to prepare to adapt to climate changes of at least 4 °C, even though they recognize that it may not be possible to buy our way out of most of the damage (to natural systems, for example, including the irreversible loss of many plant and animal species).

Given the enormous consequences and irreversible losses from global warming should the worst projections play out, the time for improving the flow of information on this subject is clearly now.

Thanks for all you are doing to prevent mass biodiversity loss and irreversible environmental degradation, to preserve the Earth from wanton dissipation, and to protect the human family from reckless endangerment.

Too often we read of the losing battles: local extinctions and irreversible biodiversity losses, often at the expense of shortsighted exploitation - for - profit schemes.

If ice sheet disintegration reaches a point such that the dynamics and momentum of the process take over, at that point reducing greenhouse gases may be unable to prevent major ice sheet mass loss, sea level rise of many meters, and worldwide loss of coastal cities — a consequence that is irreversible for practical purposes.

Jamie Gorman, campaigner for Young Friends of the Earth Europe said: «Communities are suffering irreversible losses due to climate breakdown, now.

This could also entail sudden shifts of ecosystems to less desired states (Scheffer et al., 2001; Folke et al., 2004; e.g., Chapin et al., 2004) through, for example, the exeedance of critical temperature thresholds, possibly resulting in the irreversible loss of ecosystem services, which were dependent on the previous state (Reid et al., 2005).

You say that allowing for alternative business structures would lead to «anti-competitive consolidations, loss of very hard - won independence of the legal profession as lawyers become the puppets of outside profit seekers, an irreversible compromising of legal ethics, and so on».

The preamble to SARA states «the Government of Canada is committed to conserving biological diversity and to the principle that, if there are threats of serious or irreversible damage to a wildlife species, cost - effective measures to prevent the reduction or loss of the species should not be postponed for a lack of full scientific certainty».