Sentences with phrase «in a changing climate»

«We discovered new and important glaciers and we learned a lot on the complex interaction of the ice sheet, ice shelf and the ocean in a changing climate».

To maintain food security, wheat breeders are working to develop plants that offer more nutritional value, have greater yields, and can thrive in a changing climate.

And marginal improvements may be too little and too late to make a big dent in the changing climate.

They want to discern the role humans play in a changing climate.

As the dormant eggs remain viable for a long time researchers can use resurrection ecology to examine the evolution of water fleas in a changing climate.

The study uses climate modelling to predict three possible futures - the low, medium and high impact scenarios, which describe the severity of outcomes that could be expected in a changed climate.

A review of estimates of future carbon dioxide emissions in Changing climate: Report of the carbon dioxide assessment committee [external link].

Managers and policymakers will need to manage trade - offs among food, energy, and water demands in a changing climate while minimizing risks.

It can contribute to our understanding of the everyday challenges of growing old in a changing climate and how we can achieve the «longevity dividend».

Doing so we'll have a far better chance of preserving food producing in a changing climate and thereby reduce global food insecurity.

We now know the bottom half is also playing important roles in our changing climate.

No doubt something to do with your walls not being square, or room needed for expansion in the changing climate.

Others focus on social or technical approaches to boosting the ability of societies to thrive in a changing climate.

He served as lead author for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program report Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate.

Science's Special Issue on Natural Systems in Changing Climates includes news and reviews on the response of ecosystems, global food security, and lessons from past climate records.

In addition to the partnership of 14 institutions, BIOACID closely cooperates with other national and international research projects such as the UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme (UKOA) and the European project Mediterranean Sea Acidification in a Changing Climate (MedSeA), stakeholders such as the International Ocean Acidification Reference User Group (IOA - RUG) and the newly founded Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA - ICC).

Milner - Gulland sees the results as a cautionary note on saigas» future in a changing climate.

But even if we fail to make much of a dent in our established ways, our meeting may be one more step in changing the climate in which we work, and, if so, it will be worth the time and effort that has been expended.

Before joining the Food Program, Brian previously worked at WRI on the 2010 - 2011 edition of the World Resources Report, titled Decision Making in a Changing Climate.

Arcadia Educator Brittany Gutermuth teaching the Life in a Changing Climate program.

That's especially important since many decisions that will affect how communities fare in a changing climate will be made locally, said Rosina Bierbaum, dean of University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment.

Multi Regional About Blog Animal Agriculture in a Changing Climate fosters animal production practices that are: environmentally sound and economically viable, and that create resiliency for animal producers and their partners.

The Expert Review of the First Order Draft of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) will take place from 4 May until 29 June 2018.

Plant biologist José Dinneny probes the very beginnings of root development, which may have important implications for growing food in a changing climate.

When most people think about wildlife in a changing climate, they think of polar bears clinging to melting ice, but even species who have adapted to tropical weather are being impacted by the changes to their environment.

Higher resolution fluorescence mapping could one day be used to help assess crop yields and how they respond to drought and heat in a changing climate.

Showy ornaments used by the male of the species in competition for mates, such as the long tail of a peacock or shaggy mane of a lion, could indicate a species» risk of decline in a changing climate, according to a new study from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

These polymorphic zones, underrepresented by existing global protected area networks, indicate hot spots for evolutionary rescue in a changing climate.

Prior research has largely focused on the negative impacts of ocean acidification on reef growth, but new research this week from scientists at the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), based at the University of Hawai'i — Mānoa (UHM), demonstrates that lower ocean pH also enhances reef breakdown: a double - whammy for coral reefs in a changing climate.

Atmospheric «loss to space was a significant, if not dominant, process in changing the climate,» says MAVEN principal investigator Bruce Jakosky of the University of Colorado Boulder.

As Gore sees it, homeowners in a changing climate are soon going to find it so cheap and easy to generate and store their own electricity that they'll be able to treat their electric utility like Ma Bell and go totally off - grid, cutting the power cord forever.

Extreme heat and cold in a changing climate affect the stability of railroad tracks and can make them prone to buckling and lead to an increase in future derailments, said Andrew Kish, an independent railroad track stability consultant and rail buckling expert who is retired from the Volpe National Transportation System Center at the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Are brown trout replacing or displacing bull trout populations in a changing climate?

In 100 characters: PNNL scientists developed a new capability to simulate streamflow of global rivers in a changing climate.

Van Oldenborgh, G.J., S.Y. Philip, and M. Collins, 2005: El Nino in a changing climate: a multi-model study.

DC School Reform Now was founded in 2008 with a desire to support new education reforms in the changing climate of public education in the District.

The elicitation sought to examine the range of opinions within the climatic research community about the physical processes that determine the current strength of the AMOC, its future evolution in a changing climate and the consequences of potential AMOC changes.

4:52 p.m. Updated The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, convening in Kampala, Uganda, has produced a valuable summary of science on the influence of human - driven warming on extreme weather and strategies for limiting risks to societies in a changing climate.

Land managers have realized that static protected areas will not be sufficient to conserve biodiversity in a changing climate, requiring an emphasis on landscape - scale conservation, connectivity among protected habitats, and sustaining ecological functioning of working lands and waters.

Session 2: «Keeping the Taps Running in a Changing Climate» — How to Mainstream Climate Change Adaptation in Water Resources

For example, current models are highly inconsistent in the way they treat the response of Net Primary Production (NPP) to climate variability and climate change even though this response is fundamental to predictions of the total terrestrial carbon balance in a changing climate.