Sentences with phrase «main environmental force»
A small but growing body of evidence is finally pointing to rising temperatures — and not headline - grabbing natural disasters — as the main environmental force permanently ousting people from their homes.
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• From Ecumenical News International: «For the first time in history, Swiss churches, including the Roman Catholic Church and Switzerland's main Protestant churches, have joined forces with environmental groups to launch a petition calling on the Swiss government to take urgent action to combat global warming.»
Thus, rather than a multiplication of ecological roles, the new results point to external factors, such as increasing environmental heterogeneity, as the main evolutionary force.
The path of the Nicaragua Interoceanic Grand Canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will cut through Lake Cocibolca (aka Lake Nicaragua), Central America's main freshwater reservoir and the largest tropical freshwater lake of the Americas; this plan will force the relocation of indigenous populations and impact a fragile ecosystem, including species at risk of extinction, according to Rice University environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez and other members of the consortium.
That's a nice gesture but completely unnecessary; the lack of environmentals really forces the main sound to come from the forward speakers, cheapening the experience until a blast of music erupts to remind you that the surrounds are still there.