Sentences with phrase «like global forest»

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Nearly 50 years later, problems like rising global temperatures, melting Arctic sea ice, and the demographics putting pressure on food production and resources like forests, can make you want to scream or bury your head in the sand.

Global warming, the ozone hole, overpopulation, starvation and malnutrition, war, unemployment, the destruction of species and the rain forests, pollution of water and air, pesticide and herbicide poisoning, errors in genetic engineering, erosion of topsoil, overfishing, anarchy and crime, the possibility of a nuclear mishap, chemical warfare or all - out nuclear war: together, or in some cases singly, these dangers threaten to «catch us unexpectedly, like a trap.»

Absent specific strategies like these, current global targets addressing climate change, poverty, and biodiversity may fall short, including the United Nations» Sustainable Development Goals to sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

«With land use sector emissions accounting for 25 percent of all global warming pollution, it is essential that countries with the potential to reduce emissions in this sector — like the U.S., EU, and Mexico — clearly commit to doing so in their INDCs,» said Doug Boucher, director of UCS's Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative.

Global warming won't just melt ice caps; it could create whole new biomes — major ecosystem types like forest, desert, grassland, and tundra — say climatologists led by John Williams at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

That molecule — released by the gigaton from human activities like fossil fuel burning and clearing forests — causes the bulk of global warming.

The FSC ™ label on our packaging is a guarantee that it is sourced from responsible forest management and other controlled sources, and it is supported by global environmental organizations like WWF and Greenpeace.

When Mckibben mentioined: «We might even have to consider currently far - fetched schemes to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere», I can only hope the next administration won't listen to people like «Wired» magazine that had a recent article on how ancient forests are contributing to global warming.

After many interviews with biologists and climate scientists focused on the Amazon, as well as people like Bruce Babbitt, the former United States secretary of the interior who has spent a lot of time crisscrossing the Amazon, I remain convinced that there is a path to development for Brazil — even with the growing global appetite for soy and biofuels and roads to the Pacific — that can preserve a large fraction of the vast forest region.

Now we'd like to see the UK translate these words into action by showing some leadership in the EU that will ensure restoration of the essential safeguard provision against the conversion of natural forests,» said Dr. Rosalind Reeve of Global Witness.

Processes like increasing UHI would appear as growing «peaks» on the global surface; regional changes (increasing or decreasing forest, conversion to agricultural use etc.) would appear as local or regional «topographic» patterns that impose a change in to the local topography and then stabilize.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

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22 October 2013 Just over two weeks ago, the Skoll Foundation and Huffington Post launched the «Skoll Social Entrepreneurs» Challenge,» a global fundraising effort for innovative enterprises like Forest Trends that seek to promote sustainable solutions to the world's problems.

To be sure, there is a lot of complexity in the way the change in average global temperature will play out regionally, or in the occurrence of phenomena like hurricanes or forest fires.

28 May 2014 Washington, D.C. In a bid to reduce their contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions, corporate leaders like Chevrolet, Marks & Spencer, and Allianz continued to voluntarily purchase carbon offsets in 2013, locking 76 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, according to the annual State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets report, previewed by Forest Trends» Ecosystem Marketplace this week in Cologne, Germany.

Recent research found that natural solutions like improved management of forests, wetlands, grasslands and agricultural lands can remove about 5.6 GtCO2e of carbon per year by 2030 — a figure equivalent to total global emissions from agriculture in 2014 — at a cost of less than $ 100 per tonne of carbon.

Global research going back to 1824 in fields ranging through physics, oceanography, biology and geology have confirmed human activity — mainly burning fossil fuels, raising livestock and destroying carbon sinks like forests and wetlands — is increasing greenhouse gas emissions and causing global temperatures to rise rapidly, putting humanity atGlobal research going back to 1824 in fields ranging through physics, oceanography, biology and geology have confirmed human activity — mainly burning fossil fuels, raising livestock and destroying carbon sinks like forests and wetlands — is increasing greenhouse gas emissions and causing global temperatures to rise rapidly, putting humanity atglobal temperatures to rise rapidly, putting humanity at risk.

Just yesterday, in a speech to the Society of American Foresters U.S. Forest Service chief Gail Kimbell says the nation can expect more wildfires like the ones raging through Southern California as global climate change heats up the world's forests.

The NRDC is concerned about destruction of Canada's boreal forest — a vital ecosystem that's home to hundreds of species, including songbirds and large carnivores like wolves and bears, and is also a massive storehouse for carbon dioxide (the forest keeps the CO2 out of the atmosphere, where it would contribute to global warming).

«What we are doing in these tropical forests is really a massive problem,» said Kurz.Bruce McCarl, an agricultural economist at Texas A&M; University, argues that simple changes in forest management and agricultural practices could lower the risk of severe global warming much more rapidly than proposed technological solutions like carbon sequestration.

Bills, notes, shopping lists, receipts; the list goes on, and though paperless options for bank statements and the like are becoming more prevalent (and you can get wind - powered paper now), FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) Canada reports that global paper consumption has more than tripled over the past three decades, and is expected to increase by another 50 per cent by 2010.

Without studying the principles of highly - organized functioning of ecological communities, including their genetically encoded ability to respond to environmental perturbations in a non-random compensatory way, the perspectives drawn from global circulation models with respect to the climatic effects of land cover change (e.g., statements like cutting all boreal forests will ease global warming) will continue to lack any resemblance to reality.

As global demand for products like wood, paper, beef and palm oil continues to rise, companies are encroaching ever deeper into the world's dwindling forests.