Sentences with phrase «many environmental pressure»

The Congressmen accused Schneiderman of secretly collaborating with environmental pressure groups since a two - day workshop in 2012.

While there is obvious environmental pressure on miners and utilities in the coal business, the number one coal killer is an unlikely source: hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

Is it an outworking of the evolutionary process in which the creature is responding to environmental pressures?

The theory is beautifully consistent with what is observed in the natural world though, and it is possible to observe species, including humans, continue to evolve in response to changing environmental pressures.

Actually their is some evidence that hom.os.exual behavior is partially a response to environmental pressures, particularly overcrowding.

«some evidence that hom.os.exual behavior is partially a response to environmental pressures, particularly overcrowding.»

Studies by social psychiatrists emphasize the role played by environmental pressures on the development of personality illnesses.

Only now does it concern itself about the use of plastic due to external environmental pressures.

Daren Bakst, a research fellow in agricultural policy at the Heritage Foundation think tank, said sue and settle has led to «egregious antics» that have «effectively handed over the setting of agency priorities to environmental pressure groups,» and has led to rushed rulemaking by the agency.

The environmental pressure group is calling for the legislation to be improved by calling for amendments ensuring a strategy to insulate more warm homes and a legal minimum standard of energy efficiencies in rented properties.

It would be good if they did so in a way which involved Greens, environmental pressure groups, etc..

And so you're going to see development of mega cities all across this country and the environmental pressure is on the land there are only going to be intensified because of that.

While awareness of environmental pressures is driving some of this change, government legislation is also playing a big part.

What is more likely, however, is that the role will evolve as different environmental pressures increasingly find their way onto the business radar.

The antibiotic action is an environmental pressure; those bacteria which have a mutation allowing them to survive will live on to reproduce.

«There is an underlying demand for something better than $ 90 per barrel oil, that has better domestic supply and can help cope with increasing environmental pressure,» ATA's Heimlich says.

The best explanation for this turnover is that whenever environmental pressure increased dramatically, certain fauna went extinct while others evolved into new forms.

This was true across the entire island, suggesting laterality is hardwired in the birds» brains and not a product of local social traditions or environmental pressures, the researchers say.

The exact environmental pressures that pushed humans toward higher intelligence also remain a matter of speculation.

To figure out what's really happening within an organism — or within a particular organ or cell — researchers are linking the genome with large - scale data about the output of those genes at specific times, in specific places, in response to specific environmental pressures.

«Salmon farming is a huge business in the UK, Norway and beyond, and while it does reduce the pressure on wild fish stocks, it can also create its own environmental pressures through genetic disruption.

«This similarity in growth rates suggests that prehistoric humans effectively adapted to their surroundings such that region - specific environmental pressure was not the primary mechanism regulating long - term population growth.»

«But we can now say that evolvability can be the object of selection in the face of environmental pressure.»

In the United States, however, fighting parasitic trypanosomes isn't a significant concern, while lifestyle and environmental pressures such as obesity promote the rise in suPAR levels.

Particularly in Africa and the Middle East, high fertility rates are leading to profound local environmental pressures - water stress, land degradation, over-hunting and fishing, falling farm sizes, deforestation and other habitat destruction - thereby worsening the grave economic challenges these countries face.

Over the course of a few decades, if not sooner, hundreds of millions of people may be compelled to relocate because of environmental pressures.

Animals like Sclerocormus that lived just after a mass extinction also reveal how life responds to huge environmental pressures.

«A sense of ourselves as ecological creatures is needed, planning as families and communities to reduce environmental pressure, and maintain and renew ecosystems,» he said.

«Our theory explains specifically why primates developed super intelligence but dinosaurs — who faced many of the same environmental pressures and had more time to do so — did not.

Because the timing of those life - history milestones can be affected by various environmental pressures, the tusks provide a way to «look directly at how the animals themselves were impacted by, and responded to, changes in their environment,» Cherney said.

Their findings shed light on a fascinating way that environmental pressure can give rise to the origins of a new visual receptor.

«Look at it specific to the environmental pressures.

U.S. domestic production is increasing, as is the geographic diversity of global oil supply, and environmental pressures are encouraging greater efficiency and adoption of substitute technologies.

The study, which appears in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution, offers new insights into these selective environmental pressures that guide butterfly eye evolution.

Along with scientists from the National University of Tucuman in Argentina and the governments of Paraguay and Argentina, he found that populations of tegu are resilient to environmental pressures such as drought.

In the case of the Sumatran rhino, however, some conservationists worry that without a long - term strategy for reversing the environmental pressures that are killing them off, captive breeding alone can never restore the wild population.

Apart from the environmental pressures on the lions, the dominant maneater also had severe wounds in his mouth and jaw, potentially driving him to prey on humans.

Might the match result, instead, from the migration of the then «northern German» cod to the north - east Arctic, over the intervening centuries, in response to environmental pressures?

Environmental pressure groups such as the Genetics Forum are not satisfied that BST is safe and say that more research is needed to demonstrate that milk from BST - treated herds is safe to drink.

As long as they understand that there is pressure, environmental pressure, on organisms to adapt — antibiotic resistance by bacteria represent a form of evolution — but let's not call it evolution because that buzz word turns people off.

«This suggests that some other environmental pressure — possibly drought - caused these plants to evolve this way, and it happened to work really well for freezing tolerance too,» said co-author Amy Zanne at the George Washington University.

I develop quantitative methods to elucidate recent population histories, and interpret these histories in the context of demographic, cultural, and environmental pressures.

Some so called climate skeptics are indeed politically and economically motivated; so are environmental pressure groups.

The Portal is an online platform including summaries of the state of knowledge on CEP priority issues, the management of those issues and environmental pressures.

Patterns of disease, tissue loss and bleaching have been described on coral reefs worldwide and are increasing under increased environmental pressures.

Published in Nature, this review looks into the values of different pollinators on issues including food secutiry and biodiversity, their status and trends, risks from environmental pressures and the consequent management and policy response options to safeguard pollinators.

Though the benefits of using grafted transplants are now fully recognized worldwide, understanding the rootstock - scion interactions under variable environmental pressures remains vital for grafting - mediated crop improvement.

Environmental pressures have long been assumed to play a key role in hominin speciation and adaptation [6].

A pressure of 5000hPa (difference to environmental pressure of 1013 hPa) will apply a force of 2500N (or 560lbf) onto the piston and push it down.

From which we may deduce that an individual can be «modified» merely by the effect of environment, but that fresh characters will not be transmitted by heredity or will be transmitted only with difficulty and perhaps even then only because of some sustained environmental pressure repeatedly exerted upon a large number of generations.