Sentences with phrase «local environmental effects»

As science begins to understand more clearly how global warming creates local environmental effects, so we may begin to see the growth of direct climate change litigation.

The local environmental effects are difficult to predict and measure.

What is now Alabama was on the margin of that sea where local environmental effects likely did significantly impact carbon cycling.

Not exact matches

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The idea being raising cattle produces so much methane (which is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2) that the primary contribution to greenhouse gases is actually the cow itself, not shipping, so eating local beef vs generic feed lot beef has little effect on the environmental impact.

At 11 a.m., Rep. Nita Lowey and environmental leaders host a news conference on local effects of President Trump's climate change agenda, Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, Gary C. Comer Geochemistry Building, 61 Route 9W, Palisades.

According to the United Nations, the meat industry is «one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global», and the UN has concluded that a global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to saving the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst effects of climate change.

State Senator Espaillat led a visit by local residents and environmental activists, including Vera Scruggins (left), to Pennsylvania to learn about effects of hydro - fracking.

Road salt poses the biggest environmental threat to the Adirondack Park since acid rain, say a coalition of environmental groups, citing emerging scientific data detailing the effects on local watersheds.

Environmental Advocates of New York, local legislators and Judith Enck address the Trump administration's effect on the environment

A staunch proponent for environmental protection and how it directly effects the health of local residents Stratton's most recent advocacy for the residents of his district has been investigating lead concentrations in drinking water due to aging infrastructure and widespread use of lead in plumbing, even in newer homes.

«If you only consider local birds in an environmental assessment, you're not really evaluating the effect that facility may have on the entire population,» Katzner said.

«Carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is entering the ocean almost everywhere, but local environmental conditions can magnify its effects,» said Sarah Cooley, a marine chemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts.

The methods established in the new study can be used in future for applied purposes — for example for local protection measures, for environmental assessments by authorities, or to integrate the long - term effects of road building into scenarios of the World Bank regarding global biodiversity changes.

The researchers call for a need to move beyond a sole focus on mitigating the effects of climate change to reach solutions that consider global carbon reduction targets as well as local energy and environmental contexts.

Biologists, chemists, psychologists and a range of other scientists wanted to study the environmental, economic and mental health consequences of the disaster; local scientists wanted to study the effects of the spill on their communities; and leaders at the local and federal government needed guidance on how to respond.

«It is important to consider the effects of a combination of global and local environmental factors on entire ecosystems,» Dr. Franziska Julie Werner stresses.

The experiment of the Kiel marine biologists shows how local environmental factors such as eutrophication may amplify the effects of global factors such as rising temperatures and ocean acidification.

The co-authors were «amazed» at this anatomy of the giant sequoia leaf that «indicates an ability to respond to local environmental signals» and furthers inquiry into the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems.

According to the lecturer Emilia Gutiérrez, from the Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences of the UB, «the data from these trees that grow in heights over 2,000 metres represents the global changes, since their growth is not influenced by the effects of the local human activity (wood cutting, industry).»

Illegal environmental damage caused by clothing production can often have catastrophic effects on local communities.

It is important to note that any potential effects will be spatially and temporally variable, depending on current forest conditions, local site characteristics, environmental influences, and annual and decadal patterns of climate variability, such as the El Niño - Southern Oscillation cycle, which can drive regional weather and climate conditions.

The asymmetric effect of beliefs about global warming on perceptions of local seasonal climate conditions in the U.S.» Global Environmental Change 23:1488 - 1500.

Some courts are taking laws written more than 30 years ago — to primarily address local and regional environmental effects — and applying them to global climate change.

Some local and global environmental impacts of how we use resources, and how our actions and choices can change our effect on the world for the better, are considered.

Some courts are taking laws written more than 30 years ago to primarily address local and regional environmental effects, and applying them to global climate change.

By saying «Some courts are taking laws written more than 30 years ago to primarily address local and regional environmental effects, and applying them to global climate change.

The potential effects that aviation has had in the past and may have in the future on both stratospheric ozone depletion and global climate change are covered; environmental impacts of aviation at the local scale, however, are not addressed.

«For a given wind farm, the inhibiting effect should be quantified by fully considering local background environmental factors (e.g., temperature and soil moisture) and the recovery of vegetation with different vegetation conditions.

Many cities identify zones where certain types of urban agriculture are allowed (often defining required management practices) and other types are excluded (due to expected negative effects in the given local circumstances) in order to reduce health and environmental risks.

Local and state governments in the Northeast have been leaders and incubators in utilizing legal and regulatory opportunities to foster climate change policies.103 The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) was the first market - based regulatory program in the U.S. aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions; it is a cooperative effort among nine northeastern states.104 Massachusetts became the first state to officially incorporate climate change impacts into its environmental review procedures by adopting legislation that directs agencies to «consider reasonably foreseeable climate change impacts, including additional greenhouse gas emissions, and effects, such as predicted sea level rise.»

The analysis of the pattern of environmental degradation presented in Slow Violence might have been further enriched through the historical examination of some of the parts of the world that have successfully transitioned from highly environmentally destructive modes of economic development to modes that are far more benign, at least in their local effects.

Evidence exists in recorded local observational accounts as well as in the peer - reviewed scientific literature of the cumulative effects of climate - related environmental change on Native communities in Alaska; these effects combine with other socioeconomic stressors to strain rural Native communities (Ch.

Augment the Renewable Energy Guidelines by, for instance, requiring wind energy developers to comply with more rigorous criteria including scientific research on setback allowances, noise, wind velocity, human health issues, property values, agricultural animal productivity and welfare, air traffic flight paths (commercial passenger and cargo plus light aircraft including air ambulance), environmental and ecological impact, health and safety issues for domestic animals, longterm adverse effect of cement pedestals on ground water, depletion of finite local aggregate supply and induced seismic activity on faults.

Due to the terminal's unprecedented risks to the health, safety, local economies and natural resources of Northwest communities, the Washington State Department of Ecology and Whatcom County planned to consider the project's broad impacts in the environmental impact statement, including coal dust around the terminal, rail traffic and coal dust along rail lines and waterways in Montana, Idaho and Washington; and the effects of burning coal overseas on the Northwest, particularly regarding climate pollution and mercury contamination.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

«A proposal for the first oil and gas drilling in federal offshore waters of the Arctic took a step forward Thursday as regulators released a draft environmental impact statement, which reflects concerns about the effects of the project on marine life and local communities.»

Their emissions interact in the atmosphere and, separately or jointly, they cause a variety of environmental effects at the local, regional and global scales.

Administrative appeals ask a court or other reviewing body to overturn, alter, or delay the legal effect of an underlying administrative decision, such as the decision of a local zoning or planning authority, the decision of a state environmental agency on a permit application, or an administrative agency's enforcement order alleging a regulatory violation.