Sentences with phrase «major water changes»

Very few people with fish tanks have the equipment necessary to undertake major water changes.

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As a major part of the movie is how Watney survives on Mars, including the Mars water in the story would have vastly changed «The Martian.»

In addition to climate change, animal agriculture is a major contributor to air and water pollution, water use, land degradation and deforestation, biodiversity decline, and ocean degradation.

For a change I made no major substitutions (although I was sorely tempted to use chicken broth in place of the water), although I did have to use pink lentils since that's what I had, and it was a lovely soup!

It also requires increasingly unsustainable levels of precious resources (land, water and energy) and is a major contributor towards global environmental degradation and climate change.

«Industrial meat and dairy has an outsized impact on the environment — it's a major contributor to deforestation, climate change and water pollution, and it harms our health,» said Dawn Bickett, Greenpeace International's global engagement lead for the Less Is More campaign.

It requires increasingly unsustainable levels of precious resources including land, water and energy, and is a major contributor towards global environmental degradation and climate change.

Meanwhile, environmental and population changes have major implications for issues including food and nutrition security, access to clean water and sanitation, and natural disasters.

Dr Paschalis added: «Understanding the responses of plants to elevated concentrations of CO2 is of major importance with potential implications on the global economy and water and food security under a changing climate.»

The two major dams, the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas and the Glen Canyon Dam below Lake Powell in Utah, have had major effects on wildlife and fish in the Colorado River, altering their natural ecosystems, drowning their habitat, and changing the temperatures of the waters in which they evolved.

Second, genetic evidence shows a change in Methanosarcina at that time, allowing it to become a major producer of methane from an accumulation of carbon dioxide in the water.

Ongoing changes in ocean circulation patterns, which are helping to drive warm water from other parts of the sea closer to the Antarctic continent, are also believed to be a major factor.

The growing scarcity of freshwater due to rising water demands and a changing climate is increasingly seen as a major risk for the global economy.

Brooks says that researchers have known that a changing climate could have major impacts on snowmelt - derived water resources.

Climate change may cause major changes in rainfall patterns and river flows in the coming decades, bringing more pressure for water - transfer schemes.

And overall, climate change now affects agriculture, human health, ecosystems, water supplies and the livelihoods of people, according to a major 2014 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cchange now affects agriculture, human health, ecosystems, water supplies and the livelihoods of people, according to a major 2014 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeChange.

He found major changes in baby coral caused by these chemical additions to the water, both during the lifetime of the organisms and beyond.

«This model is a major step forward in our effort to improve the prediction of regional climate change, particularly involving water resources.»

«We saw major changes in the algae consistent with the water warming that indicates changes in the physical structure of the water column.»

The UCLA team's conclusions about temperature changes in the region also imply that there have been major fluctuations in the volume of water vapor in the atmosphere there.

i.WET includes solutions for three major challenges of water infrastructure in Germany: demographic change, climate change and energy policy.

«Climate change, energy, distribution and supply of water, and agriculture — these are the major challenges of the 21st century, and we'll have a leader at the national academy who understands these.»

Because such deep seawater circulates from the coast of Antarctica, this deep - water warming implies that the Southern Ocean drove the last major climate change.

The Pentagon itself has described climate change as an «immediate» risk and major threat multiplier, one that could cause crops to fail, spark mass migrations and increase conflict for dwindling water resources (to say nothing of the threat sea level rise poses to U.S. naval bases around the world).

For example there is a major controversy over whether or not humans are changing the weather»), for Grade 6 on water resources and weather systems, and so on.

While climate change was found to make drought in East Africa both more likely and stronger, it wasn't found to be a major influence on the drought that has caused severe water shortages in Brazil.

Reasoning that, because it fluctuated daily, water vapour was continually recycling itself in and out of the atmosphere, he turned his attention to carbon dioxide, a gas resident for a long time in the atmosphere whose concentration was only (at that time) dramatically changed by major sources such as volcanoes or major drawdowns such as unusual and massive episodes of mineral weathering or the evolution of photosynthetic plants: events that occur on very long, geological timescales.

Projected changes in temperature will have large effects on how water enters Montana (e.g., as rain or snow), how it is distributed among major storage pools, and how it moves or changes from one component of the water cycle to another.

A major source of water, such changes could affect the people living there.

To avoid this, you should ease into the detox water plan as you would any major change in diet, lifestyle or fitness routine.

While people are still mourning for the loss of a talented artist, some started The director for The Bride of Habaek (Bride of the Water God) revealed he had to make major script changes because of tvN's Goblin.

The changing tide of film distribution has admittedly watered down the horror options for us (I've sat through some major clunkers recently), but it has also opened up our options for finding new films we might not have been able to find in a post video store world.

Taking account of economic growth, social equity and environmental sustainability, the report's forward - looking narrative describes how major challenges and change factors in the modern world will affect — and can be affected by — water resources, services and related benefits.

Most citizens do not see their added value, and feel that it is a waste of economic and political resources, but in this age of globalization, and given the internationalization of major situations and problems, such as water, energy, migration, trade, employment, professionalization of careers, pollution / climate change, and sustainability in particular, such bodies are important and must fulfill their charge the sooner the better.

We have given the car a major service (with spark plugs), fitted two new Continental tyres, changed the brake fluid, fitted a new water pump, refurbished the alternator, replaced the coolant pipes, replaced the main drive belt, regased the air - conditioning system, aligned the wheels, plus undertaken a myriad of minor jobs.

A full major service was performed in January 2017 and included a full synthetic oil change, new timing belt, timing tensioner, water pump, coolant reservoir sensor, ABS relay sensor, fuel pump relay, fuel filter, distributor caps with rotors, spark plugs and wires, battery, hatch struts and new Hancook tires.

Recent Services and Repairs New Timing Belt, New Water Pump, New Front Brakes, Tuneup, Oil and Filter Change, New Air Filter, New Wiper Blades, Major Service, New Battery, Vehicle Inspection, 40 - Point Checkover, Completely Serviced Powerful, luxurious ride.

It's been 17 years since the 911 switched from air - cooled to water - cooled engines, and the iconic sports car has received yet another major change that sets it further apart from the original concept «Butzi» Porsche conceived in the early 1960s.

According to Science editor David Grimm, the fact that many people died in the floods because they wouldn't leave their animals behind — as well as the sight of hundreds of abandoned cats and dogs after the flood waters receded — prompted major changes to state and federal laws regarding the evacuation of pets during disasters.

We've got a lot to announce, from changes in Tulsa's drinking water treatment, to major shifts coming in the way adoptions are handled at our city shelter.

[62] With respect to kelp forests, major issues of concern include marine pollution and water quality, kelp harvesting and fisheries, invasive species, and climate change.

The most recent report concluded both, that global temperatures are rising, that this is caused largely by human activities and, in addition, that for increases in global average temperature, there are projected to be major changes in ecosystem structure and function with predominantly negative consequences for biodiversity and ecosystems, e.g. water and food supply.

The Anthropocene is the new epoch in which humanity, through its technological prowess and population of 7 billion, has become the major driver of changes of the Earth's physical systems, including the climate, the carbon cycle, the water cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and biodiversity.

But overfishing, pollution, the water intakes of power plants, non-native species and, in the long run, climate change are major contributors, as well.

It's great to see San Francisco and Oakland California stepping up and suing major oil companies, demanding accountability for water levels rising from Climate Change.

In fact, the I.P.C.C. WGII report, in the chapter on North America says «Research since the [last IPCC report] supports the conclusion that moderate climate change will likely increase yields on North American rain fed agriculture... Most studies project likely climate - related yield increases of 5 - 20 % over the first decades of the century... Major challenges are projected for crops that are near the warm end of their suitable range or depend on highly utilized water resources.»

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On decadal and longer time scales, global mean sea level change results from two major processes, mostly related to recent climate change, that alter the volume of water in the global ocean: i) thermal expansion (Section 5.5.3), and ii) the exchange of water between oceans and other reservoirs (glaciers and ice caps, ice sheets, other land water reservoirs - including through anthropogenic change in land hydrology, and the atmosphere; Section 5.5.5).

Do some averaging and extrapolating, and all the no - change series water down the 2 C to about a bit under 1 C. That's something we could argue about, but it probably wouldn't raise any major fuss.

The time has come to begin pushing for major changes in how agriculture and the food industry can use water more efficiently.