Sentences with phrase «health of forests in»

«Great apes are extremely important for the health of forests in Africa and Asia, and even the loss of 10 or 20 at a time can have a deep impact on biodiversity.»

Appalachian Woodlands Alliance (U.S.) Rainforest Alliance is partnering with forest products leaders Avery Dennison, Columbia Forest Products, Domtar, Evergreen Packaging, Kimberly - Clark, Staples, and the US Forest Service to work with private landowners in this three - year project aiming to improve the productivity and health of forests in the southeastern US, an area historically dependent upon the coal industry, by fostering sustainable practices.

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What's more, despite the fact that «many executives see it as a badge of honor,» Jolly says, hurry sickness can also damage your career even before it wrecks your health, because being in an incessant hurry has a way of making people miss the forest for the trees.

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Smith points to the threats the pipeline poses to British Columbia's tourism industry, rising floodwaters in Bangladesh and the Maldives, drought in sub-Saharan Africa and Mexico, the homes that will be lost in future forest fires, respiratory health impacts in communities from Vancouver to Kamloops and Quesnel, and future hurricanes in the Caribbean and Gulf states as climate impacts that are left out of the narrative about the project.

If you've ever dreamed of owning your own beachside retreat, a private coastal hideaway with lush ocean views... or a lakeside home on a pristine tropical mountain lakeside surrounded by rolling hills of cool pine forests and fertile pastures... in a country with world - class health care, and affordable daily living... then you should turn your attention now to Costa Rica.

Yet in order to sustain the long - term health of the forests they depend on, they need sustainable economic opportunities that provide alternatives to agricultural conversion or irresponsible timber harvesting.

The cycle of poverty and deforestation harms critically important ecosystems and imperils the public health and cultural traditions of communities that live in and near forests — not to mention the future development of potentially life - saving medicines.

Sometimes the easiest way for companies or smallholders to clear forests in order to grow palm oil is to burn them, creating smoke and haze that also threatens the health of animals and people across the region.

Our farmers limit the number of taps they use in their forests to help sustain the health of the trees.

I wonder if this isn't a forest - for - the - trees issue, in this case the overall health of the child being the big picture and the micromanagement of meal content being the details.

Nocerino, who lives in Forest Hills and heads up the girl's softball league, recently dropped out of the race for Katz's seat due to health concerns.

The Department of Health could not confirm Tuesday which hospitals will be affected, but last week state Sen. Toby Stavisky (D - Whitestone) said she expected to see the state hold on to funds promised to Flushing Hospital, Jamaica Hospital, Elmhurst Hospital, Mt. Sinai Hospital in Astoria and Forest Hills Hospital.

Upon winning a coveted Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Adams took a nontenure - track assistant professor position at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston - Salem, North Carolina.

The results suggest biomass burning of polluted forest fuels may exacerbate poor air quality — and related health concerns — in some of the world's most heavily polluted areas, among them, the Los Angeles metropolitan area, which is expected to suffer from more wildfires as drought conditions continue.

The organic (carbon - containing) compounds they studied in that patch of Colorado forest play a key role in atmospheric chemical processes that can affect air quality, the health of the ecosystem, and the climate itself.

Interviews with scientists and other experts to assess the relative health of some 60 protected areas of tropical forest in 36 different nations reveal that roughly half are continuing to lose unique species of plants and animals.

The paper, «Unproven Stem Cell - based Interventions and Achieving a Compromise Policy Among the Multiple Stakeholders,» was co-authored by Kirstin Matthews, a lecturer in natural sciences at Rice and fellow in science and technology policy at the Baker Institute, and Ana Iltis, a professor of philosophy and director of Wake Forest's Center for Bioethics, Health and Society.

They include some of the most conspicuous forest mushrooms, including the iconic, flaming red «fly agaric,» Amanita muscaria, and are of interest to bioenergy researchers, because they play roles in maintaining the health of candidate feedstock crop trees.

Their Environmental Services and Sustainable Use of Forests section looks into improving forest management, and carries out research in biodiversity, forest ecosystems and human health, and climate change and fForests section looks into improving forest management, and carries out research in biodiversity, forest ecosystems and human health, and climate change and forestsforests.

Because of the growing concerns about mercury exposure, Fernandez is leading a project at Wake Forest University in Winston - Salem, North Carolina, to study the metal's effects on human and environmental health in the Amazon.

Deep in the rain forest, where people are cut off from transportation and cellular networks, mortality is the highest, access to health care is the most limited and quality of care is the worst.

SENTINELS OF FOREST HEALTH Aptly named «fairy barf» lichen (Icmadophila ericetorum) clings to bark in the Great Smoky Mountains of TennesseOF FOREST HEALTH Aptly named «fairy barf» lichen (Icmadophila ericetorum) clings to bark in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennesseof Tennessee.

Regulated deer hunts in Indiana state parks have helped restore the health of forests suffering from decades of damage caused by overabundant populations of white - tailed deer, a Purdue study shows.

The ultimate goal is to restore what ecologists called the fire regime, a cycle of fire that aids in the dispersal of seeds and the renewal of soil and makes other important contributions to the health of forests.

The first U.S. State of the Birds report came out in 2009 and established the precedent of using birds that are confined to specific habitats as indicators of the health of those habitats: oceans, coasts, wetlands, arctic, forests, grasslands, and aridlands.

Earthworms contribute to soil health in farm fields and gardens through their digging, fertile excrement and other ways, but they can also damage the chemical composition of forest ecosystems.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Forest Service officials are seriously hampered not only by short - term budgets passed by Congress, but also a broken budget for the Forest Service that sees an increasing amount of resources going to firefighting while less is invested in restoration and forest health, said ViForest Service officials are seriously hampered not only by short - term budgets passed by Congress, but also a broken budget for the Forest Service that sees an increasing amount of resources going to firefighting while less is invested in restoration and forest health, said ViForest Service that sees an increasing amount of resources going to firefighting while less is invested in restoration and forest health, said Viforest health, said Vilsack.

A Special Section in Science this week examines forest health from the tropics to the boreal forests of the north.

In the National Institutes of Health - funded study, researchers at Wake Forest Baptist identified and evaluated six rare gene variants within the beta2 - adrenergic receptor gene, the gene that may influence the response to beta agonist drugs.

But while FUNAI and Ministry of Health officials tried to organize and fly in a medical team, the Xinane melted back into the forest, raising concerns that they would carry disease back to their home village.

Dr Newton - Fisher, based in the School of Anthropology and Conservation (SAC) at Kent, and Stefano Kaburu, from the Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine, UC Davis, University of California and formerly of SAC, observed grooming interactions between members of a community of chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest Reserve in Western Uganda.

The researchers traveled by canoe upriver into the Amazon to study the diet and health of the Matses community, who are among the last hunter - gatherers in the world; they still hunt monkey, sloth, alligator, and other game, as well as gather wild tubers in the forest and fish in the rivers.

After completing her Ph.D. in 1993, Eden began a postdoc at the intramural program at the National Institute of Health's Fogarty International Center and learned more about brain imaging, which she had been first exposed to at Wake Forest.

Finally, the team quantified impacts at scales useful for decision - making in eight sectors of the state's economy: hydrology and water resources, energy, agriculture, salmon, forests, coasts, infrastructure, and human health.

Wake Forest Baptist Health is proud to be the presenting sponsor of the 2015 Tanglewood Heart and Stroke Walk, Saturday, Oct. 17, at Tanglewood Park in Clemmons, NC

A new NIH - funded consortium in North Carolina will offer Early Check, a free newborn screening done in partnership with the N.C. State Laboratory of Public Health, UNC, Duke University, and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

Additional Authors: Huiyong Zheng and Siobán D. Harlow of the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, MI; Nancy E. Avis of Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston - Salem, NC; and Gail A. Greendale of Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles.

These climate changes have measurable effects, like reductions in ground and surface water resources due to changing timing of precipitation and snowmelt, and measurable impacts like declining forest health and more wildfires, to altered crop seasons and greater irrigation demand.

Focused on the treatment of cancers and blood disorders, as well as directing chemotherapy care, the hematologists and oncologists at Wake Forest Baptist Health work as part of a team of specialists to provide the best possible care in North Carolina.

In the face of changing climate, forest managers can best maintain stable forest health and product yield by understanding past trends and planning for a range of climate scenarios.

However, the indirect effects of climate change on forests, such as changing wildfire and beetle outbreak severity, are already having a large impact on the health of Montana's forests and in some instances these impacts are easier to predict.

Brenner FIT, a pediatric obesity program of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center» sBrenner Children's Hospital, was awarded a two - year grant by the department store chain Kohl's, through its Kohl's Cares program, to continue its ongoing support of children's health and education initiatives in the local community.

The official agreement between Wake Forest Innovations and CHA Health Systems is expected to be in place the end of September.

«There's a lot of research on how different kinds of environmental disasters — such as forest fires, hurricanes, air pollution, or heat waves — impact human health, but the most widespread natural disaster is drought,» said lead author Jesse Berman, a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale FE&S, in a press release.

In the face of changing climate, forest managers can best maintain forest health and stable product yield by understanding past trends and planning for a range of climate scenarios.

The first piece of Mildrexler and colleagues» effort was the creation of a forest vulnerability index that, in effect, relates climatic drivers of vulnerability, such as extreme temperature and low precipitation, directly to physiological stress factors, which reduce photosynthesis and deteriorate forest health.

Since then, he has overseen the expansion of Wake Forest Baptist Health and Wake Forest School of Medicine with new programs and facilities, the advancement of Wake Forest Baptist's Comprehensive Cancer Center to the highest ranked cancer center in the Southeast as determined by US News & World Report, and the development of regional partnerships that have made the Medical Center a leader in population health managHealth and Wake Forest School of Medicine with new programs and facilities, the advancement of Wake Forest Baptist's Comprehensive Cancer Center to the highest ranked cancer center in the Southeast as determined by US News & World Report, and the development of regional partnerships that have made the Medical Center a leader in population health managhealth management.

Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center today announced that it has entered into a first - of - its - kind strategic affiliation agreement in the Triad with Cornerstone Health Care, P.A. through its wholly - owned management services organization Cornerstone Health Enablement Strategic Solutions, LLC (CHESS).

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