Sentences with phrase «fragile region»

So such a project would increase the conflict in an already fragile region.

In years or decades, conditions of life may become dire in several fragile regions of the world.

The company is particularly focused on the Kubuqi Desert in Inner Mongolia and other ecologically fragile regions along the Silk Road Economy Belt in China.

We found that the map of fragile regions differs markedly between cell types although a limited reservoir of 49 loci accounts for all CFSs we observed.

McNeill can discuss the Zika virus and its vectors in historical context, and discuss how, if not controlled, the virus could affect politically fragile regions in the Americas.

OSLO An architect of the Paris climate agreement urged governments on Tuesday to halt oil exploration in the Arctic, saying drilling was not economical and warming threatened the environmentally fragile region.

But lignite is a reliable source of cheap energy and provides lots of jobs in economically fragile regions.

«If we are going to do resource extraction in the Arctic, which seems to be something that we're told is going to happen, then we really ought to know what's going on in detail, because the Arctic is an extremely fragile region.»

The study, National Security and the Threat of Climate Change, explores ways projected climate change is a «threat multiplier» in already fragile regions of the world, exacerbating conditions that lead to failed states — the breeding grounds for extremism and terrorism.

A spill beneath the ice could be catastrophic for the ecologically fragile region.

Arctic sea ice melt fueled by ever - rising global temperatures is also opening the already fragile region to increased shipping traffic and may be affecting weather patterns over Europe, Asia and North America.

My team has recently demonstrated that this delay is due to a specific replication program combining late replication with failure to activate origins along the fragile region.

The industrialization of the Arctic, according to Duarte, may only accelerate impacts on the fragile region and push tipping points.

While nature reserves protect many of its natural habitats, they have not entirely dissuaded both public and private enterprises from developing in this fragile region.

The opening of the Arctic has also led to more shipping and commercial activity in an already fragile region.

In 2007, CNA Corporation, a defense analysis operation, wrote, «climate change is a threat multiplier in already fragile regions, exacerbating conditions that lead to failed states — the breeding grounds for extremism and terrorism.»