Sentences with phrase «heavy economic toll»
YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories, Canada, Oct 16 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- C limate change is taking a heavy economic toll on Canada's far north, with buildings collapsing as melting permafrost destroys foundations, rivers running low and wildfires all a drain on the region's limited finances, senior government officials said.
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A slowdown in China's economic growth is exacting a heavy toll on resource - based economies like Canada's.
«El Nino directly affects the climate of more than half the planet, often exacting a heavy toll in human life and economic wellbeing,» says Cane.
From the heavy rains that sent the Seine into the streets of Paris last year to a parade of storms that left southern England waterlogged during the winter of 2013 - 2014, there have been startling examples in recent years of the heavy toll that flooding can levy in both human and economic terms.
The economic, social, and emotional tolls of these deaths are substantial, but some parts of the US are bearing heavier burdens than others.
It's top - heavy and badly listing, and sooner or later economic pressures are going to take their toll.
Yet this tremendous socio - economic progress is taking a heavy toll on the Earth's natural systems.