Sentences with phrase «from environmental»

In this article, the term refers to the removal of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment, or surface water for the general protection of human health and the environment or from a brownfield site intended for redevelopment.

Handsome, hardy and diverse, beetles are supremely successful critters with a lot to teach us — but they're suffering from our environmental waywardness

Apart from the environmental pressures on the lions, the dominant maneater also had severe wounds in his mouth and jaw, potentially driving him to prey on humans.

The court's 5 - 4 ruling said the Bush administration did not adequately assess the threats from global warming when it rejected a petition from environmental groups and 12 states that sought to force federal greenhouse gas limits on motor vehicles.

Their results indicate that exchange rates are variable within and among different sized ponds and were not well predicted from environmental variables such as wind, rainfall, and temperature.

A protein that normally protects cells from environmental stresses has been shown to interact Marburg virus VP24, allowing the deadly Marburg virus to live longer and replicate better, according to a cell culture study led by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Strangely, this is now possible, using a device that converts the tongue into a «display» for output from environmental sensors.

«We would like to investigate the physiological role of human skin archaea and how they differ from environmental archaea,» she said.

The vote came a day after the bill's sponsors made changes to the original measure to resolve some concerns from environmental groups and Democrats.

Poll, head of technology for the British government — funded Omega Project, a division of Manchester Metropolitan University that partners with industry to study the environmental impact of aviation and offer possible solutions, pointed out the need for nonkerosene - powered aircraft «I think nuclear - powered airplanes are the answer beyond 2050,» he said, concluding, «If we want to continue to enjoy the benefits of air travel without hindrance from environmental concerns, we need to explore nuclear power.

Also they may need intensive agriculture, so they are not necessarily the best from all environmental aspects.»

Biotechnology from A to Z (Oxford University Press, pp 358, Pounds Sterling 12.50 pbk) does just that, and should be on the shelves of anyone with an interest in biotechnology, from environmental activists and bench scientists of all disciplines to chief executives of multinational corporations and leading politicians.

«That is not a record that is likely to inspire confidence from the environmental community,» said Mark Squillace, a natural resources law professor at the University of Colorado - Boulder.

Many junior government toxicology jobs also are integrative, requiring a big - picture view of data from environmental sampling, epidemiological studies, clinical trials, and animal and cell - based research.

According to the thesis, apart from its environmental benefits, a rainwater harvesting system would allow an average saving of 119 Euros per year in the city of Barcelona, with savings ranging from 80 Euros and 158 Euros per year depending on the type of district (greater or lower population density in relation to the type of buildings).

Grinath's work was funded by the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory and the STAR Fellowship from the Environmental Protection Agency.

«Green public housing may reduce health risks from environmental pollutants.»

Fracking has already drawn considerable scrutiny from environmental groups, unhappy homeowners, and teams of lawyers who blame the drilling method for polluting pristine rivers, turning bucolic farmlands into noisy industrial zones, and leaking enough methane to make ordinary tap water as flammable as lighter fluid.

That solves nothing from an environmental point of view.

She has led the opposition to S. 697, which has drawn criticism from some environmental and public health groups.

«From an environmental point of view, any use of natural gas is preferable to flaring,» notes chemical engineer James Miller of Sandia National Laboratories.

A new study, which estimates the carbon footprint of burglary prevention measures, has found that the best options from both an environmental and security point of view are door and window locks.

Scientists and engineers tend to understand the difference between «long - term versus short - term thinking,» which is needed to confront everything from environmental problems to federal retirement funds.

The Special Issue Section of the current Technology and Innovation — Journal of the National Academy of Inventors focuses on challenges to fresh water from environmental changes and from the human population.

Despite these reports, in 2009, the MMS granted BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling operation a «categorical exclusion» from all environmental reviews under the US National Environmental Policy Act.

For example, earlier research suggested that Neanderthal DNA influenced skin cells known as keratinocytes that help protect the skin from environmental damage such as ultraviolet radiation and germs.

The EPA has yet to issue its «endangerment finding,» despite pressure from environmental groups who first sued the agency to start the rulemaking process in 2010.

It's time to give up discussing whether the electric cars of today are good or bad, and start working together step - by - step to make them as good as possible from an environmental perspective,» he says.

While antibiotic resistance genes are not harmful in themselves, they limit the use of antibiotics for treating bacterial infections and pose a serious threat to global public health if they get transmitted to humans from environmental sources, such as compost.

But issuing carbon offset credits to projects that emit enormous quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere has attracted near universal opposition from environmental organizations, which call the practice absurd.

However, the proposal, which promoted fossil fuel development in parts of the region and allowed motorized recreation, met with stiff opposition from both environmental and tribal groups, as well as from the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service.

The study was largely funded by a combination of fellowships from the Environmental Protection Agency and the UW NASA Space Grant Consortium, and grant support from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

A recent study, led by Mark McNeill from AgResearch's Biosecurity and Biocontrol team at Lincoln, New Zealand, and published in the open access journal NeoBiota, shows that biosecurity risks from soil organisms are to increase with declining transport duration and increasing protection from environmental extremes.

To get around these challenges, the Columbia University team created indices derived from environmental conditions such as wind shear, temperature and moisture.

The new method, first developed for automated food safety testing and then adapted by Cornell scientists for a wider range of sample types, can detect the bacteria from environmental and clinical samples, including swabs, feces, milk and blood.

It covers all activities concerned with the management of land as a resource both from an environmental and from an economic perspective.

Mutant strains of bacteria — the yellow colonies here — can acquire drug resistance from environmental changes.

And what we are seeing is a massive departure from the environmental stability civilization has enjoyed during the last 10,000 years of its development.»

The team anticipates future studies could leverage data from the Environmental Protection Agency and other sources to identify links between specific environmental causes and increased rates of autism and ID.

«From an environmental perspective, it is true that timber is more sustainable than concrete and steel.

After the German Environment Ministry came under pressure from environmental groups, the German Research Ministry ordered that the experiment be put on hold while independent scientific reviews by non-German scientists were done.

The second encompasses the uncultivated organisms from environmental samples known only by their molecular signatures.

Efficiency standards for cars, light trucks, and most SUVs, also coming from the Environmental Protection Agency, could yield another 300 or so million metric tons by then.

We are also able to access the scale of the most successful renewable platform in the world — from an environmental and cost perspective — Brazilian sugarcane.

Scientists also expressed concern about the project being exempt from environmental review requirements.

The study — which integrates new maps from the Environmental Protection Agency that more precisely estimate where people live now and where future population growth is expected — predicts that under potential population growth and development projections, more than 60 million Americans may be vulnerable to a 100 - year flood by 2050.

The findings are from The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in Youth consortium, or TEDDY.

Over a three - month period, Ram and her team collected air quality data from environmental sensors in the vicinity of the Dallas hospital.

It was developed by four teachers in the Wicomico County Public Schools» gifted and talented program with help from environmental educator Carrie Samis of the Maryland Coastal Bays Program.

«The human skin protects the body and internal cells from environmental stresses.