Sentences with phrase «impacts plant communities»
To the extent that herbivory impacts plant communities, these results suggest that deer promote the spread of some plant invaders by avoiding them.»
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We can expect NDP cabinet ministers to boast about achieving the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans - Mountain Pipeline expansion and Environment & Parks Minister Shannon Phillips to release further details of the plan to address Climate Change, including government support for communities impacted by the phase out of dirty coal - fired power plants.
The entire Nutriati team is excited to be a part of this community, working to positively impact social and environmental food issues while building a profitable and sustainable business focused on plant - based foods.
They are aiming to significantly reduce the impact of the processing plant on the local community, including a major reduction of odors and truck traffic currently present and at the same time making the company more energy self - sufficent
Nicholas Meat's new facilities will be designed to recover both energy and water from waste products generated on site and significantly reduce the impact of the beef and veal processing plant on the local community.
LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.
Mass Audubon, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy and LandVest, has developed a web - based interactive map to assist the Massachusetts land conservation community and state and municipal environmental planners in identifying parcels best suited to meet land protection goals as birds, other animals and plants, and the habitats they depend upon are impacted by climate change.
New York City: The Illuminators projected a protest message to Governor Cuomo upon the Harvard Club in Manhattan on Thursday night during his fundraising event there, on behalf of frontline communities impacted by a growing number of fracked - gas infrastructure projects in NY such as pipelines and power plants, (Pictures attached).
«While some of your work may be national in scope,» said the first lady in her opening remarks, «ultimately your most powerful impact is local... For example, The New York Botanical Garden started the Bronx Green - Up revitalization program, and they helped plant hundreds of school and community gardens in struggling neighborhoods so that families could grow their own fresh produce.»
Look at this map for all the EJ communities impacted by this plant.
At noon, residents impacted by the CPV Valley Energy Plant currently under investigation by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara will hold a press conference and then deliver a letter to the governor signed by over 300 community organizations and individuals, LCA Pressroom (130), LOB, Albany.
While many county Democrats have lauded the deal as a win for the environment and public health — the plant, situated atop two fault lines, has been cited for 40 safety and operational «events» since 2012 alone — Republicans and other local community leaders have been quick to raise concerns over the economic impact of its decommissioning.
«Previous studies of the impacts of drought on flowers and bees have looked at individual species, often in the laboratory, but we used an experiment with rain shelters to examine the effects on real communities of plant species living in chalk grassland,» said Dr Ellen Fry from the University of Manchester, who set up the experiment.
When coal - fired power plants close communities can face painful transitions, and the debate over one Massachusetts facility shows the local impacts of a national shift to cleaner power
Such changes in plant community structures also have long - term impacts on forest regeneration, Averill said.
Selfa thought that had these communities been aware of ethanol production's impact on the local water supply, support for the plants may not have been as strong.
«We've got lots of international partnerships, and we want it to make an impact across the global plant breeding community.»
«It's a less obvious impact than losing all the birds because the change in the plant community is gradual, but Guam is becoming an increasingly different forest now that it has lost all of its frugivores,» Rogers said.
Applying biomechanical formulae to a treasure trove of thousands of fossilized leaves of angiosperms — flowering plants excluding conifers — the team was able to reconstruct the ecology of a diverse plant community thriving during a 2.2 million - year period spanning the cataclysmic impact event, believed to have wiped out more than half of plant species living at the time.
ASPB's public affairs unit will provide updates on policy developments in Washington and other plant biology news impacting the ASPB community.
To determine the possible water flow changes and the impact on the plant community, the team installed access tubes into the ground to measure the changes in soil water in storage.
Results of regular monitoring of the species diversity and structure of plant communities is used by conservation biologists to help understand impacts of perturbations caused by humans and other environmental factors on ecosystems worldwide.
The book is aimed at any graduate students and researchers with a strong interest in plant biodiversity monitoring and assessment, plant community ecology, biodiversity conservation, and the environmental impacts of human activities on ecosystems.
I've worked with a number of systems, including plants and invertebrates, recently focusing on the impact of climate change on ant communities.
Blake's contributions to the plant biology community and ASPB span more than 20 years, including extensive editorial service (e.g., as an editorial board member for The Plant Cell), high - impact organizational and service activities, and training and instruction both in and out of the classplant biology community and ASPB span more than 20 years, including extensive editorial service (e.g., as an editorial board member for The Plant Cell), high - impact organizational and service activities, and training and instruction both in and out of the classPlant Cell), high - impact organizational and service activities, and training and instruction both in and out of the classroom.
Healthy church that has impacted its local community through innovative programs and multiplied itself through church planting both locally and overseas.
Students explore the impact of a plan to locate a new industry in a low - income neighborhood, then take on the roles of community members, business executives, and city officials as they advocate for and against building a power plant in a low - income minority neighborhood.
Tree Planting and Water Harvesting: Using GBM's Watershed Based Approach, communities help to conserve biodiversity, restore ecosystems, and reduce the impact of climate change.
GBM's approach empowers communities to take action against climate change, the impacts of which are already being witnessed across Africa, through food security and water harvesting activities (adaptation) and planting the appropriate trees in appropriate places (mitigation).
Katmai has relatively few invasive plants in the park and the Exotic Plant Management Team aims to control the spread and minimize the negative impacts that invasive species can have on native plant communiPlant Management Team aims to control the spread and minimize the negative impacts that invasive species can have on native plant communiplant communities.
My back - of - the - envelope takes on warming suggest to me that it can be managed without economic hardship or a serious impact on our way of life, but that the changes required are so massive — new transportation fuels, new power plants, and so forth — that they are far beyond what an individual or local community can achieve, however laudable their intent.
As part of the solar installation agreement, Chevron will use 30 acres of the plant as a pilot demonstration site to evaluate different soil depths suitable for use at the closure of the mine in an attempt to show that shallower depths of one or two feet will still ensure no adverse impacts to the health of the local community and the environment.
The American Lung Association supports regular, thorough assessments of the impacts to nearby communities of sources of dangerous air pollutants, including highways, ports, industrial boilers, power plants, and other sources of air pollution.
Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts.
In terms of community impact, BNP has been directly involved in the funding of a four giga - watt coal power plant in India, the Tata Mundra plant, which affects the livelihood of thousands of fish workers by dumping gallons and gallons of warm water from the plant into the naturally colder water of the coastal area.
The report is a joint production of NAACP, Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), the Indigenous Environmental Network and lead author and researcher Adrian Wilson, and will serve as a launching point for NAACP's campaign to address the issue of the pollution from coal fired power plants and disparate impacts on communities of color.
concentrated on reducing its environmental impact through its own operations, including «virtually paperless» internal and customer transactions, and through engaging with local communities to support urban reforestation projects, helping to plant more than 100,000 trees around the country.
«We are pleased that the parties considered the impact of this agreement on the plant employees and the nearby community,» said Pica.
«What happens to the remainder of the coal fleet could have significant implications not only for the millions of people still living in communities near coal - fired power plants, but also for people living further away who will still feel the impacts of pollution from these plants,» said Julie McNamara, energy analyst at UCS and report co-author.
These equity concerns include: the regressive impact of potential energy price increases on low - income households; the potential for carbon pricing policies to allow some fossil fuel - fired power plants or refineries to continue to operate and emit air and water pollutants in neighborhoods already burdened by pollution; and the economic hardship to workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel industries for livelihoods or for their tax base as we transition away from these resources.
The results of a comprehensive study investigating the impacts of living near 378 coal plants in the United States have found that people of color and low - income communities are disproportionately more burdened by this pollution than any other segment of the population.
Increased temperatures, shifting species distributions, increased drought stress for plant communities and aquatic systems and amplified pest and disease outbreaks are among the potential impacts of climate change.
The CEED workshop on the Clean Power Plan provided community members with a deeper understanding of what this rule means for power plants in environmental justice communities.This toolkit describes key elements of the CPP within the context of the power system, pathways for implementation, and challenges to maximize environmental justice for locally impacted communities.
Apparently the University has just finished a 50,000 sq. ft. LEED certified building, features an off - grid living community, an on - site biodiesel plant and many low impact technologies (see our previous post here).
Focus on the health impacts; better inform the public about the severe health problems that plague communities near coal plants.
This dependence on vast amounts of coal - fired power, on top of adding to our climate woes and air pollution issues, also has an impact on the communities surrounding coal plants, thanks to the insidious effects of coal ash (the leftover material from burning coal as a fuel) in disposal ponds, which often leak slowly into groundwater or which can «spill» into nearby rivers or lakes, polluting a natural resource that we all rely on.
The group enjoyed planting trees together with the community members and discussing the social, economic and environmental impact of GBM and GBS with them.
Tree Planting and Water Harvesting: Using GBM's Watershed Based Approach, communities help to conserve biodiversity, restore ecosystems, and reduce the impact of climate change.