Sentences with phrase «many ecological effects»
After hearing evidence and considering submissions for 180 days, the Board arrived on 209 conditions it deemed necessary to mitigate the risks and adverse socio - ecological effects associated with the pipeline and its associated infrastructure to ensure the project is in the public interest.
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My concern is that this project was given the green light despite so many uncertainties concerning these socio - ecological effects.
Every day we read about some real or contrived environmental or ecological effect «proven» to arise from global warming.
Examining the actual social and ecological effects of the institution upon its environment proved to be an important contribution to the education of the students as well as to the improvement of the institution.
Walker, Milwaukee County executive, said the Wisconsin Department of Transportation has not held a meeting on the project's ecological effects since 2001.
The Trump Administration budget would eliminate funding for research on ecological effects of unconventional oil and gas development.
Climate change has many ecological effects, such as altering flowering phenology, or the blooming time of wildflowers, across the world.
This shift results in significant changes in forest species composition with their accompanying ecological effects and, moreover, affects the capacity of forest biomass (the mass of living trees) to store carbon.
«The ecological effect can be much greater much quicker.»
«This study gives us a whole other avenue to understand the ecological effects of wolves on landscapes and animal communities,» said Ripple.
This sample of recent environmental films includes looks at the ecological effects of roads and top predators, the impact of climate change on a native village in the Arctic, a search for seeds of wild relatives of staple foods, and the fate of solar panels from Jimmy Carter's White House.
A seminal 2002 study of the ecological effects of a busy four - lane highway in Massachusetts found impacts — varying from wetland drainage to noise — across a broad 600 - metre corridor.
«If I as a university professor approached my institutional review board and said I want to experiment on entire populations by introducing wavelengths of light most associated with harmful biological and ecological effects, they would laugh me out the door, down the street and out of my office,» Longcore says.
«These ecological effects need to be considered alongside the practical, societal and economic issues in developing a sustainable policy.»
«Many chemicals banned in the U.S. are still being widely used elsewhere, despite the fact that in many cases we know little about their long - term ecological effects.»
The continuing study will yield useful information on ecological effects, although not necessarily on fire risk, as it will not study wildfire directly, according to forest scientist Philip Omi of Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
Foresters have used both mechanical removal and intentional burning to prevent massive conflagrations, but the relative costs and ecological effects of these two practices are unknown.
Those die - offs, which occurred about 252 million years ago, killed off more than 90 % of all species on Earth, and their ecological effects were long - lasting.
It also suggests that the sudden drop in the local population had dramatic ecological effects, including an increase in forest fires.
«It's such an amazing approach,» agrees Richard Nevle, an environmental scientist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, who has studied the ecological effects of the American Indian population crash.
The researchers looked at the pattern of extinctions for 177 species of mammals weighing 10 kilograms or more between 132,000 years ago (the height of the next - to - last ice age to strike the Northern Hemisphere) and 1000 years ago (a time at which the ecological effects of human exploration and expansion became unquestionable).
She said there are numerous examples of groundbreaking studies that are not replicable, such as human health studies after the dropping of atomic bombs in Hiroshima or the ecological effects of the BP PLC Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Even after two decades, experiments to study the ecological effects of climate change continue to yield instructive results.
These unfolding discoveries suggest that complex biology is at work, leading the EPA's advisors to say that the «potential scale» of RNA used in agriculture «warrants exploration of the potential for unintended ecological effects.»
However, ecological effects would not necessarily be reversed.
Konza Prairie scientists pioneered the use of long - term, large - scale fire and grazing experiments to understand the ecological effects of fire and grazing in grasslands.
Organisation and dynamics of biocoenosis; biodiversity patterns at various scales; hydrobiology of running and standing waters and wetlands; ecological effects of climate and land use changes; conservation biology and restoration ecology; new plant resources; natural vegetation in Hungary; maintenance of the Botanical Garden.
Re # 31 and others I have wondered about the ecological effects of anthropogenic climate change (ACC) also.
This focus on the potential ecological effects from pharmaceuticals largely began as a result of a growing number of technical papers published from the late 1990s until the present that have reported the detection of low levels of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plant effluent, manufacturing plant effluent and surface water and, to a more limited extent, groundwater, drinking water, soils, and sediment.
This December 2012 workshop sought to determine the data needs and testing methods for the environmental release of synthetically designed algae and to assess the ecological effects and risks of synthetic organisms.
I would like to see a post from Realclimate about current ecological effects of anthropogenic climate change.
Inevitably these debates raise questions of the past ecological effects of Aboriginal fire usage.
While invasive predatory freshwater fishes have caused devastating damage to native freshwater species, ref marine invasive fishes are relatively uncommon and their ecological effects are largely unknown.
Dr Green is the lead author on a paper just published in Environmental Science and Technology, which describes the worrying ecological effects of discarded plastic carrier bags.
Sustained melt has also opened the region to more ship traffic and oil exploration, which pits economic opportunity against potential ecological effects.
Oyster companies are already feeling the effects of the dropping pH, and if we continue to acidify the oceans at our current rate, the ecological effects could be tremendous.
Flowering times are well - documented indicators of the ecological effects of climate change and are linked to numerous ecosystem processes and trophic interactions.
«This was a huge undertaking,» said Thomas Davies, who studies the ecological effects of light pollution at Exeter University and was not involved with the study.
Though the ecological effects of these climate oscillations have been described in various settings, the influence of decadal indices to long - term marine turtle population trends is largely unexplored.
Ripple has led international collaborations to analyze the status and ecological effects of large animals.
Biography: Sue - Ann's research focuses on key ecological effects of global change, particularly ocean acidification, on marine organisms including invertebrates and fishes.
I recently completed a global review on the ecological effects of providing resource subsidies to predators.
To combat the ecological effect that time has eroded on this Indian Ocean surf spot since the film release, top - notch artificial reefs are being introduced to produce an awesome barrelling wave.
An installation drawing upon the ecological effects of vibration and the history of sonic warfare.
(In climate, distribution of pollen reveals temperature and precipiation trends due to the ecological effects — the Younger Dryas, 12800 - 11500 years ago, is the name of a flower whose pollen was widespread at the time).
I would like to see a post from Realclimate about current ecological effects of anthropogenic climate change.
For example, many mechanistic models used to simulate the ecological effects of climate change operate at spatial resolutions varying from a single plant to a few hectares.
Sections on the ecological effects of global warming and its impact on human health were removed.
What are the ecological effects of future warming?
The second reason is the possibility that the ecological effects of climate change (the portion that is already manifesting itself) are currently already larger than thought — something that can be masked by looking at individual species and is better assessed when looking at ecosystems or entire biomes.