Sentences with phrase «less vulnerable areas»

Widder thought the intent might be to draw a predator's attention to a less vulnerable area.

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Now, we're going to make a little flap to cover the zipper seam entirely, allowing less moisture to pass through this vulnerable area.

«Unfortunately for broadcast journalism, Paxman is more or less gone from the news studios, and the new breed of anchors seem to have an increasing inability to ask simple, direct questions or press hard on the most vulnerable areas.

However, the potential impact is less clear at regional scales, but it is likely that climate variability and change will exacerbate food insecurity in areas currently vulnerable to hunger and undernutrition.

Should capital - intensive businesses be located in flood risk areas and increase flood protection, or should they be (re) located to areas that are less vulnerable to flooding?

They found that 10 to 28 per cent of the world is located in potential refugia or areas less vulnerable to future climate change and biome shift.

David — In my earlier comment, I pointed out that we don't know whether future tropical cyclones will be more or less damaging than previous ones, particularly since adaptive measures are being undertaken in some vulnerable areas (e.g., Bangladesh).

She noted that in some ways Tucson could be seen as more vulnerable to dengue because mosquito control campaigns in the area are far less intensive than what one finds in Key West.

And all animals, even those with thick coats, have areas with less or light fur that are more vulnerable to the sun's damaging rays.

The problem is serious because up to 10 percent of the world's population lives in vulnerable areas less than 10 meters (about 30 feet) above sea level.

For these areas that have experienced more degradation and are more vulnerable to climate change, the researchers suggest that «attempting historical restoration may be less useful because the future climate is expected to be very different than the past.»

Awareness, capabilities and access to resources that facilitate adaptation are likely to be much less widely available in less developed contexts, where industrial production often takes place in areas vulnerable to flooding, coastal erosion and land slips.

On the lesser - known side are figures like Douglas Domenech, the Department of the Interior's assistant secretary for Insular Areas, who oversees Pacific islands particularly vulnerable to ocean acidification.

In July 2005, the Moroccan government, responding to severe drought, announced that it was allocating $ 778 million to canceling farmers» debts and converting cereal - planted areas into less vulnerable olive and fruit orchards.

It is quite striking that blue, less - polluting regions in the CO2 emissions map correspond to the red, highly vulnerable areas in the vulnerability map.

In this case, the change taking place is the reshuffling under way in large law firms «as they move lawyers out of faltering practice areas into those that are less vulnerable — or even thriving — during the economic slump.»

But the traditional small - town local lawyer is under the gun: many communities that size are declining, and the lawyers there are older, less likely to have juniors to whom to pass on the practice, and generally work in areas (real estate, wills, document creation) most vulnerable to new competitors from outside the profession.