Equally important, wind and solar substitutes for fossil fuels have their own
major ecological impacts — which few environmentalists ever acknowledge.
Nearly half of all papers in the database that reported a P value, for example, did not appear to include other statistics that would clarify for readers whether the result had
a major ecological impact.
Not exact matches
An international team of scientists investigating the effects of six planned or potential Andean dams on the Amazon river system has found that
major negative
ecological impacts can be expected both above the dams and throughout the lowland floodplains and the Amazon Delta, according to WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, and other groups.
Zebra mussel
impacts are only one more in a series of
major ecological transformations brought about by humans.
Modern human - driven forces, like climate change and pollution, are «orders of magnitude more destructive than what early humans were doing,» Lyons said, but even at the dawn of human civilizations, people were certainly having
major — and unprecedented —
ecological impacts, she said.
Their work has been a
major influence on Rick's thinking about how we might reduce the
ecological impact of toads at the invasion front.
While we are moving towards establishing a few
major storage dam projects, even the extent to which we should do that — considering
ecological impact and disaster preparedness — is worth discussing at the highest level.
At present, as I discussed in my analysis article on Tuesday, evidence for widespread
ecological damage is thin; so we have to presume that as of now, the significant volume of oil that remains (even a quarter of 4.9 milion barrels is still far more than released by the Exxon Valdez) is not hitting enough of those key zones to be having a
major impact.
Scenarios represent many of the
major driving forces - including processes,
impacts (physical,
ecological, and socioeconomic), and potential responses that are important for informing climate change policy.
That is the central finding of the
Ecological Footprint (EF), a widely cited global sustainability indicator used by the United Nations and
major NGOs around the world to estimate the
impact of human activity on the biosphere.
Even local extinctions of keystone species may have
major ecological and economic
impacts.
The main points arising from the regional assessment were that the Arctic is extremely vulnerable to projected climate change —
major physical,
ecological, sociological, and economic
impacts are expected.