Sentences with phrase «important environmental events»

This work has confirmed the strong influence two important environmental events had in mammal communities: the Vallesian crisis, ten million years ago and, more remarkably the Messinian crisis, six million years ago, where nearly the whole Mediterraean basin was completely drained.

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There are a number of important factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from those indicated by such forward - looking statements, including, but not limited to: uncertainties involving interpretation of drilling results, environmental matters, lack of ability to obtain required permitting, equipment breakdown or disruptions, and the other factors described in Paramount's disclosures as filed with the SEC.

«The abrupt appearance of dozens of animal groups during this time is arguably the most important evolutionary event after the origin of life,» says lead author Associate Professor Michael Lee of the University of Adelaide's School of Earth and Environmental Sciences and the South Australian Museum.

The event will be part of the GreenLight Exhibition Series, which aims to showcase photography projects which highlight important environmental issues.

The most important take - home point, which I focused on in my blog post, is the reality that natural variability — when moving things temporarily in the cooling direction — could pose a challenge to environmental activists who have sought to portray real - time events as the reason for action on emissions curbs.

The Goldman Environmental Prize provides support to former Prize winners seeking to broaden their networks though their attendance at conferences, meetings and other events important to their work.

We review the extensive record of plant fossils before, at, and after the Cretaceous - Paleogene event horizons, recognizing that key differences between plants and other organisms have important implications for understanding the patterns of environmental change associated with the Cretaceous - Paleogene event.

For nearly two decades, our multi-day Katoomba Events have also provided a high - level forum for exchanging ideas, bringing together important players — from businesses, to policymakers, to community leaders, and civil society organizations — and catalyzing new initiatives around environmental markets.

Non-climatic environmental factors will certainly have been important for individual trees at different times, but these factors are regarded as haphazard events with random distribution over space and time and, hence, they can be regarded as part of the random error variable (ε t) in the conceptual linear aggregate equation (Eq.