Sentences with phrase «fragile regions of»

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The affect of falling commodity costs and easing international growth are very likely to be tackled, together with the development of a huge stimulus plan introduced by the bank this yr to revive the region's fragile financial system.

Tart cherries are primarily harvested in the sunny, gorgeous state of Michigan (and also in New York, Utah, Washington and Pennsylvania), and because they are more fragile than their sweet counterpart, they rarely make it out of the region fresh, which explains why I was completely unaware of their existence.

This network remains the fragile guarantee of Rwanda's interests in the region, and it has never given up its recourse to violence.

The Executive Director of the Centre for Natural Resources and Environmental management Koshi Kwawu Kumi told Joy News» Volta Region correspondent Ivy Setordzie «oil exploration in the fragile ecosystem will not in any way benefit the citizens of Anlo land.»

Turnout at last year's metro mayor elections in neighbouring city regions (Greater Manchester, 28.6 %; Liverpool City Region, 25.9 %; Tees Valley, 21 %) was far from stellar — and a turnout considerably lower than that could hamper the already fragile mandate of new SCRCA mayor.

Security and science in this increasingly volatile, fragile area are of paramount importance, not only to practice stewardship of the region itself, but also to maintain peaceful relationships and to practice diplomatic measures that could benefit the globe.

In her new book Melting Away, Seaman collects the photographs and essays that resulted from this exploration of our increasingly fragile polar regions.

Despite some degree of protection due to their inherent inaccessibility, mountain regions are still fragile ecosystems threatened by human - related impacts such as logging and erosion, acid deposition, and climate change.

The supply of climate change knowledge is biased towards richer countries — those that pollute the most and are least vulnerable to climate change — and skewed away from the poorer, fragile and more vulnerable regions of the world.

Chromosome fragile sites are regions of DNA double strand breaks on human chromosomes.

The study also suggested that the Fragile X cells had delayed development in formation of neuronal synapses, the connections that neurons make between regions of the brain to send messages.

If the plan is put into place, it would change the state's system for water delivery from the region, which currently involves pumping it from the delta itself in a practice that harms the fragile ecosystem and leaves farmers and residents with widely varying amounts of water from year to year.

After a series of mining exploration licenses had been issued for the region, local communities teamed up with our Mongolia partner, the Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation, to save this fragile ecosystem.

However, some regions of the genome, notably common fragile sites (CFSs), raise specific problems.

Hotspots of ocean acidification have been found in the waters that wash onto the shores of the West Coast, a major concern for the region's billion dollar fishing industry as well as the region's potentially fragile coastal ecosystems.

Mapping of XMRV integration sites has revealed a strong preference for structurally open transcription regulatory regions of chromosomes that are associated with cancer breakpoints, common fragile sites, microRNA and cancer - related genes [5].

We construct a statistical model that separates fragile sites from regions showing signatures of positive selection for homozygous deletions and identify candidate tumour suppressors within those regions.

Whereas the full impact of this year is yet to manifest itself in the city and its surrounding region, the geopolitical outcomes of the Western centric order's fading power on the position of China and Hong Kong in the world are beginning to mark the debates in the city's fragile public space.

-LSB-...] Home to 108 million people, the Loess Plateau in Northern China is one of the world's most eroded regions, as a result of thousands of years of over-exploitation over its fragile ecosystems built on dry powdery wind - blown soil9.

Before the press conference, campers joined a cave tour at Crystal Grottoes to view the region's fragile karst geology, which is characterized by underground drainage systems with sinkholes and caves and is easily susceptible to transmission of pollutants through connected underground aquifers.

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

Somalia's fragile environmental resources and the survival of thousands now are threatened by a severe drought in the eastern region of the country.

Recently published research by Barber and colleagues shows that the ice cover was even more fragile at the end of the melt season than satellite data indicated, with regions of the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas covered by small, rotten ice floes.

Times News Network: Himachal Pradesh has embarked on the path of green growth and sustainable development, keeping in view its location in the fragile western Himalayan region and the need to undertake development without disturbing the delicate ecological balance.This was stated by Himachal Pradesh chief secretary P Mitra while addressing a brainstorming session on «Green growth [continue reading...]

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.

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

Other dimensions of vulnerability include general regional vulnerabilities to impacts (e.g., in polar regions), lack of economic diversification and fragile urban infrastructures.

But power means very little in the face of weakness: fragile states, regions, and even cities.