Sentences with phrase «like desertification»

«If there are no while zones on top of the volcanoes, the solar radiation is absorbed, which generated an increase in temperature and local climate change, like desertification or the inhibition of pluvial precipitation,» Degaldo told SciDev.net in an interview.

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This would help us to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, like dying oceans and widespread desertification, which will harm people around the world, especially the poor.

In northwest Africa, where what Werz has called an «arc of tension» runs through Nigeria, Niger, Algeria and Morocco, he said the projected massive population growth combined with small - onset changes brought about by climate change — like sea - level rise along the Niger Delta, the loss of hundreds of villages through desertification and the virtual disappearance of Lake Chad — is bad enough.

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.

Allan Savory's project, titled «Operation Hope,» is an ongoing effort to reverse the desertification that is spreading across the world's savannas and grasslands like a disease.

«Environmental challenges like climate change; biodiversity loss; desertification; air, water, soil, and ocean pollution; and natural disasters rarely honor human - made borders, so now is the time to start building mechanisms to create environmental wins.

On this WDCD, we would like to remind everyone that threat to soil security unleashed by desertification, land degradation and the effects of drought constitute a peril to securing our common future.

The women entrepreneurs of wPOWER, as with the women tree - planters of the GBM networks and millions of others like them, know all too well the consequences of very non-metaphorical forest fires: drought, desertification, hunger, and water and fuel - wood scarcity.

But I hope we remember that this is what animals, plants, forests and oceans experience on a daily basis from the human induced unnatural disasters like deforestation, desalination, desertification, etc..

While it may not sound like much, the impact on our planet's climate would be catastrophic, potentially leading to extreme weather events, droughts, desertification, and famine.

I think the appeal in engaging with SebastianH is that he actually believes that CO2 functions like a «blanket» in the atmosphere and thus warms the oceans, melts glaciers at their base, raises sea levels to catastrophic heights, acidifies the oceans, kills off 30,000 species per year, browns the Earth (desertification), etc., and that he is so convinced of the «rightness» of his beliefs that he thinks anyone who disagrees must be insane, stupid, mathematically challenged, a conspiracy theorist, etc..

The new extremes of wind and rain are part of a larger pattern that also includes rapidly melting glaciers worldwide, increasing desertification, a global extinction crisis, the ravaging of ocean fisheries, and a growing range for disease «vectors» like mosquitoes, ticks and many other carriers of viruses and bacteria harmful to people.»

Although the report card has been released to coincide with the United Nation's Rio +20 Summit, few observers are holding out any hope for an ambitious agreement that tackles issues like climate change, biodiversity, and desertification.

An expert of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification said that the green roof has a good many practical strongpoints, like strengthening the buildings» anti-mechanocaloric effect ability, releasing the effect of acute temperature change in winter and summer, absorbing and minishing urban noise, as well as creating new eco-environment for the species of animals and plants in cities.

If this happens, it will be like the arrival of the Messiah, to lead the charge to end global warming which is leading us all to desertification of our home, Planet Earth which will lead to fighting over the remaining fresh water and soil and nuclear world war III which will have no survivors and leave the planet earth our home permanently radioactive and uninhabitable.