Sentences with phrase «heavily affected regions»

A study published in the US last week found that iodine - 131 from Chernobyl is still causing new cases of thyroid cancer to appear at an undiminished rate in the most heavily affected regions of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

Not exact matches

One of its aspects is soil salination, which affects in particular dry regions of Earth, where farmers are forced to irrigate their fields heavily.

And it's quite clear that regions already heavily affected by other human activities (coastal pollution, overfishing, etc.) are — no surprise — likely to feel more stress from acidification.

The black crosses and the grey diamonds lie in the same region of figure 5e, which suggests that the peak rate of warming is not heavily affected by the emissions after the emissions peak.

To date, air affected by the record - breaking ozone loss has hovered over Canada, eastern Russia and Scandinavia but has not extended down to the heavily - populated regions of Germany and central Europe, although this situation could change.

While the US, Europe and Russia were heavily affected from cooling sulfate aerosols between the 1950s - 80s, those very same regions have brightened thereafter (less pronounced in many parts of Eastern Europe).