Sentences with phrase «increasing number of plants»

An increasing number of plants are being retired, while many intended projects are failing to go beyond the planning stage.

J.Hohn, if you lower corporate taxes on natural resources, it won't increase the number of plants that decomposed on Canada 300M yrs ago, nor will it induce a meteor shower of iron meteorites, over Canada.

The result for many multinationals is the decision to move increasing numbers of their plants overseas or to the largely nonunion South, where much cheaper labor assures greater profitability.

There was also a trend of increased number of plants flowering in response to elevated CO2 further increasing pollen production up to 200 percent.

EP is doing this because we want to prevent nuclear plants from closing and increase the number of plants opening.

It's worth noting that you can also increase the number of plants you're growing by taking cuttings — tomatoes, for example, can be grown from the side - shoots you normally pinch off during pruning.

Not exact matches

Closures of a significant number of coal - fired power plants (for which compliance is too costly) will undermine reliability of the electrical grid and increase the risk of brownouts and blackouts.

In addition to the increasing use of coal internationally, there is a large number of coal - fired power plants coming online in the next few years.

As a GFI Campus Fellow, your primary goal is to increase the number of students at your university that pursue entrepreneurship in plant - based and cellular agriculture alternatives to factory - farmed foods.

Using a processor makes a plant based diet way more versatile as it really increases the number of things that you can make at home with fresh, natural ingredients.

«Dairy consumption per capita has declined in recent years, but the number of products and choices available to the consumer has not, so we're looking at shorter production runs,» Graziani says, adding that the company is increasing its focus on lean manufacturing and Six Sigma programs in its plants.

Additionally, the manufacturing plant has grown from one to three production lines to accommodate its increasing number of clients.

Production of cotton has ramped up in Australia with the number of bales rising to 3.8 million in 2016 - 17 from 2.7 million and the area of land planted to cotton increased 80 per cent to 473,000 hectares over that time, according to Cotton Australia.

Aside from basic fruit and vegetable consumption, on the rise thanks to an increase in farmers markets and efforts to whittle down the number of food deserts in the U.S., nondairy milk is the leading plant - based category, and it's taking a toll on conventional dairy.

A government where energy performance is measured by the power in our homes, offices and not by the increase in the number of plants with no crude or gas to fuel.

The other side of the «green» argument against nuclear power is the fear by some climate scientists that carbon emissions in New York could increase by more than 31 million metric tons during the next two years, if a number of nuclear power plants close.

«Because of the number of recent unplanned outages, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's requirements will result in increased inspections and scrutiny of the plant,» Cuomo said in a statement.

In a recent review of the literature, Winfree and her colleagues concluded that land - use changes such as urbanization and deforestation can affect native pollinators differently, depending on whether they increase or reduce the numbers and diversity of flowering plants.

To help save this water, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new silica filter for power plant cooling waters that decreases the amount of freshwater power plants consume by increasing the number of times cooling tower water can be reused and recycled.

«This is because plant and animal pest numbers and vigour could increase under changed climatic conditions and at the same time impact on the persistence of native species.»

The new version will have a wide audience: the National Gardening Association estimates 82 million U.S. households do some form of gardening, a number expected to increase as more Americans plant vegetable gardens to cut food costs.

For plants, mammals, and fishes, the proportion of newly emerging alien species has remained constant during the last 150 years but the total number of alien species has increased.

The number of plant - eating green turtles and manatees has also increased.

«Increases in the number of plant - eating tropical fish can profoundly alter ecosystems and lead to barren reefs, affecting the biodiversity of these regions, with significant economic and management impacts.»

• Previous research by Zak and his colleagues suggests that because estrogen increases the number of oxytocin receptors, in countries where people consume larger amounts of plant - based estrogens (found in foods such as nuts, soy products, and legumes), average trust levels are higher.

Analysis of the surfaces of the leaves revealed that the number of plant pathogens as well as of necrotic plant tissues increased considerably when mutualistic Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus ants were absent.

«We found that the warming increased the number of species in plots that were grazed, because it enabled small tundra plants to appear and grow there.

Plant growth occurs by increasing the number of cells by cell division followed by enlargement of the cells.

Between 1996 and 2011, the number of acres planted with genetically modified crops worldwide went from 4 million to 395 million, a 9,000 percent increase in the space of 15 years.

An increasing number of sewage treatment plants were built and the use of fertilizers in agriculture declined.

While the number of plant samples has gone up in 66 % of countries, budgets for gene banks have increased in only 33 %, and a quarter have seen their budgets fall.

«After aquatic plants were mowed in the basins, we saw a large increase in the number of Culex pipiens mosquito larvae in the basins, which had relatively few before mowing,» Mackay said.

This means that the number of sagebrush plants will increase still further as older plants die off and are replaced by new seedlings.

Using a digital terrain model of the landscape and a hydrological model simulation the scientists found that planting trees on the floodplain and increasing the number of logjams, across 10 - 15 per cent of the total river length could reduce the peak height of a potential flood in the town by 6 per cent once the trees had grown for 25 years.

This past year — 2016 — we took steps in a number of crucial areas to increase access to care through the expansion of our physical plant in Belmont, Massachusetts, as well as to focus efforts on emerging uses of technology to improve delivery of care.

What's Next: The genomes of most living organisms including all animals, plants and bacteria encode a large number of RNA - binding proteins with increasing evidence pointing to their extensive involvement in post-transcriptional regulatory events.

A slowly increasing number of experimental, field and modeling studies has suggested that plant leaves can also directly take up gaseous elemental mercury from the atmosphere.

Now that naturals are going mainstream and oils in particular have enjoyed a resurgence, companies like Biossance, who built an entire range from squalane oil, as well as an increasing number of indie beauty companies are introducing a plant - derived version to consumers.

The study also shows an increase in the number of mitochondria (membrane bound organelle found in cells that make up tissue in animals and plants) in the body during a regular consumption of BCAA.

Plant costs are fixed, but they are proportionately and increasingly offset as the number of copies printed increases.

A Green Diet The natural diet for almost all small pets other than ferrets would include some fresh plants, and increasing numbers of pet retailers are selling fresh sprouts of wheatgrass to fill this need.

Although the authors do mention «the extinction of many native animal species on islands» [11] briefly in their introduction, the purpose of the paper is, as the authors state plainly enough, to «show that the number of naturalized plant species has increased linearly over time on many individual islands.»

An increasing number of pet parents today are concerned about the impact of harsh chemicals and medications on their four - legged friends, so they're turning to more plant - based products.

A Green Diet The natural diet for almost all small pets would include some fresh plants, and increasing numbers of pet retailers are selling fresh sprouts of wheatgrass.

As the number and variety of non-native plants increase on the nearby mainland and as the park visitation and operations increase, the chance of accidental introductions of plants also increases.

The popularity of free - to - play online and mobile games from Kim Kardashian: Hollywood to Candy Crush Saga to Plants vs. Zombies has helped the number of female gamers age 50 and older increase by 32 % from 2012 to 2013, according to the ESA.

Inside the ultra-clean and modern factory, employees and a variety of impressive piece of machinery are working together to build 500 Model S electric sedans every week, and according to Gilbert Passin, Tesla's VP of manufacturing, that number will keep increasing until the whole plant, which is about as big as 88 football fields, is full of production lines.

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Others plants show different developmental strategies, increasing size (stomatal index), number (density) or epidermal cells size of stomatas.

The greater number of deaths in winter (in the UK) compared to the summer, better crops due to a longer season and increased «plant» food are two obvious areas of debate, as are the economic benefits by having lower priced energy than will be the case with renewables.