Sentences with phrase «great damage to the environment»

For those countries, which have suffered through wars and the Ebola epidemics, kimberlite mining could offer revenue without great damage to the environment, Shirey says.

Cover is destructible, which keeps you on the move, but I would have liked to see greater damage to the environment.

Not exact matches

In order to stop a new highway, a dam or canal, or a power plant, litigants must establish not simply that the environment will be damaged, but that the ultimate injury to human welfare will be greater than the proposed benefit of the project.

«The new Park Nanoscience Center at SUNY Polytechnic Institute provides researchers with greater access to Park Systems» cutting - edge AFM nanoscopic tools, featuring reliable and repeatable high - resolution imaging of nanoscale cell structures in any environment without damage to the sample.»

His hope is to remedy humanity's greatest problem: over-population (and the subsequent damage we are causing to the environment).

They have undertaken a self imposed Marine Environmental Plan to ensure their day cruises program does not damage the Great Barrier Reef's fragile environment.

There's a lot I could talk about here: the undulating rhythm of this fight, composed of brief openings in which we could deal meaningful damage and long stretches where every attack we tried required great precision, lest we be devastated by Nergigante's powerful claws; the wins afforded to us by our use of the environment, which in one instance let us crush the dragon under loose hanging crystal stalactites; our use of items like flash pods, bombs, and healing powders — things that only 5 hours of play before we'd only seen as curiosities, but now felt like necessities.

The pattern seems to be that the greater the overshoot, the more precipitous the fall, the more damage the environment sustains, and the longer the recovery period.

Our great intelligence, our propensity to fashion new things out of what we find in our environment (be it wood, metal, or elements in the atomic and subatomic layers) would not have allowed us to do so much damage to the earth were there not so many riches in the environment out there to be exploited.

Our ability to come together to stop or limit damage to the world's environment will be perhaps the greatest test of how far we can act as a world community.

Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late, human fertility reduced, human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)

The greater efficiencies meant an exponentially increasing ability to produce for our species and as a by - product do damage to our fragile environment — least of all save the world!

Torok / CSIRO: -LSB-...] idea of looking at the implications of climate change for what he termed «global icons» -LSB-...] One of these suggested icons was the Great Barrier Reef -LSB-...] It also became apparent that there was always a local «reason» for the destruction — cyclones, starfish, fertilizers -LSB-...] A perception of an «unchanging» environment leads people to generate local explanations for coral loss based on transient phenomena, while not acknowledging the possibility of systematic damage from long - term climatic / environmental change -LSB-...] Such a project could do a lot to raise awareness of threats to the reef from climate change

«Oh well, collateral damage in for the greater good for the environment», some might say... but I'm not willing to.

Although an earthquake - fueled disaster poses the greatest risk to the plant, Diablo Canyon damages the environment of Central Coastal California each day.

Hydroelectric dams have caused great damage to indigenous and traditional communities and the environment, but they are only one of many serious Amazon threats — new roads, railways, waterways, mines and other infrastructure all result in great destruction.

The increase in traffic congestion has done a great deal of damage to the environment and health of the island.