Sentences with phrase «from global lands»

The findings are expected to bolster efforts to ensure that large - scale protection, restoration, and improved land management practices needed to stabilize climate change are achieved while meeting the demand for food and fiber from global lands.

Not exact matches

They are uniquely positioned to feed and benefit from global economic growth via their relative commodity advantages, yet at the same time they have massive domestic market expansion opportunities due to a surplus of under - utilized land or people.

Three billion people depend on protein from fish, but global ocean biodiversity is suffering due to pollution from land and ocean activities.

The Province of B.C. is willing to make significant environmental sacrifices for projects that will bring economic benefits to the Province of B.C.. On the other hand, they will block a project needed by a land - locked sister province, a project that would benefit all of Canada, claiming that they are doing so because they must protect the environment, protect the land from damage and reduce global warming.

Global Coin Report and / or the affiliates, employees, writers, and subcontractors are cryptocurrency investors and from time to time might or might not have land in some of the coins or tokens they cover.

More importantly a relatively fast global flood as described in Genesis would have left fairly unmistakable indicators in the geologic records, e.g. a single layer of a massive world - wide die - off of the entire land - base plant and animal life in existence followed by a common period of re-expansion of land - based life from a single location.

He contends, first, that liberation theology should free its social analysis from a preoccupation with global «dependent capitalism» and move toward more specific analyses of land reform and of other pressing needs which would help popular Christian movements be «more politically effective at a national level.»

There's no evidence of a global flood in the geological record, the logistics of getting animals from and returning them to the then - unknown Americas and Australia, there is not enough water to cover all land (i.e. Everest) and if there were where did it go, the flood would have killed all life on earth that was not in the Ark, the issue of food for all animals, the issue of predation.

in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

From the student YMCA, through John Randolph Mott (1865 - 1955), came the World's Student Christian Federation (1896), which united on a global scale similar movements in other lands.

Cargill, one of the largest global agricultural companies, has joined Bill Gates and other business giants to invest in a nascent technology to make meat from self - producing animal cells amid rising consumer demand for protein that's less reliant on feed, land and water.

Less prominent clubs, but also Machester United, entered deals with casinos from such faraway lands as Philippines and Kenya, each of the foreign betting firms seeking to build their own brands by basking in the global glamour of showing off their logos on UK matches televised back home.

Environmental groups that vowed to fight President Donald Trump's efforts to roll back his predecessor's plans to curb global warming made good on their promise, teaming up with an American Indian tribe to ask a federal court to block an order that lifts restrictions on coal sales from federal lands.

In a review article recently published online in the journal Nature, researchers arrived at a new estimate for total usable global offshore groundwater: 500,000 cubic kilometers — a quantity 100 times greater than the amount of water extracted from land aquifers since 1900, the study states.

From hikers navigating with handheld locators to pilots landing in zero - visibility conditions, the Global Positioning System now serves more than 30 million users.

Kargel is the international coordinator of Global Land Ice Measurements From Space, a satellite program dedicated to photographing each glacier on Earth every year.

The very well - being of the northern food chain is coming under threat from global warming, land development, and industrial pollutants in the marine environment.

The researchers also used data from global climate monitoring stations to calculate CO2 emissions from tropical lands over the same time period.

This global biological recordbased on daily observations of ocean algae and land plants from NASAs Sea - viewing Wide Field - of - View Sensor (SeaWiFS) missionwill enable scientists to study the fate of atmospheric carbon, terrestrial plant productivity and the health of the oceans food web.

According to the study, soot from hydrocarbon - rich areas caused global cooling of 8 - 11 °C and cooling on land of 13 - 17 °C.

In other words, what happens when you pluck BECCS from the idealized realm of global carbon accounting and plop it into a real place, with patchwork lands, messy politics, and interconnected ecological, physical, and economic systems?

They range from LANDSAT images of land use in the Chesapeake Basin, to fish catches off California since the 1920s, to 400,000 years of global temperature estimates from antarctic ice cores.

Deltas are highly sensitive to increasing risks arising from local human activities, land subsidence, regional water management, global sea - level rise, and climate extremes.

The case stems from two 2004 federal lawsuits brought by seven states and several land - trust groups alleging that emissions from five major power companies could cause harm by contributing to global warming.

That size cutoff is standard practice,» says Bruce Raup of the University of Colorado in Boulder, who is also director of the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space project, an international glacier monitoring project.

He and UA geologist Gregory Leonard called on colleagues in the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) network that Kargel led to help identify affected areas by using satellite imagery.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

The authors caution that Amazonian forests and reserves still face a barrage of threats, from dam construction and mining to wildfires and droughts intensified by global warming, and direct invasions of indigenous lands.

«Restoring populations of animals to their former bounty could help to recycle phosphorus from the sea to land, increasing global stocks of available phosphorus in the future.»

This has great potential to improve our global data - driven estimates of photosynthesis and other fluxes between land and atmosphere that are relevant for the Earth System» says Martin Jung from MPI - BGC.

The investigators looked at data from 1,055 river basins covering 80 percent of the earth's land and found six «global invasion hotspots,» where more than 25 percent of freshwater fish are nonnative migrants.

These same clouds are vital in the movement of large amounts of sulfur from the oceans to land, making the production of DMSP and DMS a critical step in the global sulfur cycle.

Now biodiesel entrepreneurs in tropical zones in Africa and India are buying up land, starting plantations and looking forward to making fuel from the seeds, which, they argue, will be better for the global environment and economy than conventional biofuel crops grown in temperate climates.

«The implications for the global carbon sink are profound,» said Dr Andrew Marshall from the University's Environment Department and Director of Conservation Science at Flamingo Land.

Greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and land degradation accounted for 12 percent of global emissions between 2000 and 2005, according to a report by the Congressional Budget Office.

«As global population continues to grow, biocontrol bacteria may be an important key for farmers to overcome crop losses due to plant disease and to produce more food from the same acre of land.»

The close agreement of land - based measurements also help confirm the accuracy of those made from space, a point that will be important for better global understanding of water stored in a high - altitude environment.

«What we didn't realize until now is that over the past decade, changes in the global water cycle more than offset the losses that occurred from groundwater pumping, causing the land to act like a sponge.

The WHO insists that stopping flights from west Africa would not work: people would travel over land to fly from other countries, says Isabelle Nuttall, head of Global Capacities Alert and Response at the WHO.

«However, it is the bringing together of observations by ecologists, theory from biologists, physics from land surface modellers and climate science in the global modeling, that is revolutionary.»

At least two - thirds of this is rain falling onto the grabbed land, but the rest is extracted from rivers or aquifers for irrigation — around 5 per cent of total global extractions for irrigation.

-- The Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall conduct a joint scientific review, within 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act, to evaluate how sources of biomass from Federal lands could contribute to the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

The jist of this is that we must NOT suddenly switch off carbon / sulphur producing industries over the planet but instead we must first dramatically reduce CO2 emissions from every conceivable source, then gradually tackle coal / fossil fuel sources to smoothly remove the soot from the air to prevent a sudden leap in average global temps which if it is indeed 2.75 C as the UNEP predicts will permanently destroy the climates ability to regulate itself and lead to catastrophic changes on the land and sea.

Nonetheless, with rising sea level and environmental refugeeism compounding the increased demand on water, food, and land of a growing population (albeit one likely to level out mid 21st century), the combined impacts of climate change and global population increase could potentially yield a world that doesn't look that different from the one portrayed in the movie — indeed, as Jim Hansen puts it, «a different planet» — by century's end.

«The global spread of plants and their adaptations to life on land, led to an increase in continental weathering rates that ultimately resulted in a dramatic decrease the levels of the «greenhouse gas» carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and global cooling,» said co-author Dr. Jennifer Morris, from the University of Bristol.

Global mean temperatures averaged over land and ocean surfaces, from three different estimates, each of which has been independently adjusted for various homogeneity issues, are consistent within uncertainty estimates over the period 1901 to 2005 and show similar rates of increase in recent decades.

Figure 2: Global land and ocean surface temperature from GISS (red) and the Hadley Centre / Climatic Research Unit (blue) up to 2006.

Forests and other land vegetation currently remove up to 30 percent of human carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere during photosynthesis, but thanks to this latest study, experts now know that we have tropical forests to thank for a great deal of this work - absorbing a whopping 1.4 billion metric tons of CO2 out of a total total global absorption of 2.5 billion metric tons.

Methods: A global collaboration of scientists responded to a request from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and generated a set of four scenarios to represent future greenhouse gas emissions and land use change.

Bonn, 14 December 2017 — French President Emmanuel Macron announced in his closing statement Tuesday that the Land Degradation Neutrality Fund is one of the 12 global initiatives that will be supported under the One Planet Summit, stating that protecting land and water resources from the effects of climate change would the second of the Summit's 12 engagemeLand Degradation Neutrality Fund is one of the 12 global initiatives that will be supported under the One Planet Summit, stating that protecting land and water resources from the effects of climate change would the second of the Summit's 12 engagemeland and water resources from the effects of climate change would the second of the Summit's 12 engagements.