Sentences with phrase «migration events in»

Hurricane Maria's destruction on Puerto Rico could spawn one of the largest mass migration events in the United States» recent history, experts say, as tens of thousands of storm victims flee the island territory to rebuild their lives on the U.S. mainland.

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Specifically, Commonwealth environmental water was released from Hume Dam to support in - channel, wetland and low elevation floodplain habitat along the length of the River Murray to improve the condition and promote the migration of native fish species; support waterbird habitat and breeding events; and, mobilise and export salts from the River Murray system.

I mentioned this a few months back — some of you might remember — but in a series of nightmarish events my hosting company lost about 75 % of my images during a migration gone wrong.

Many thanks go to all who participated in this important fund raising event and to the hundreds of birders who enjoyed the pleasure of spring migration on behalf of Mass Audubon.

«These forecasts don't take into account actual policy changes on migration — such as the possibility of stricter immigration rules in the event of leaving the EU — but instead just consider how migration tends to fall when unemployment rises.

But with Cameron powerless to act in the event of a larger - than - expected migration (EU law guarantees the free movement of people), UKIP has every incentive to maximise the PM's discomfort.

He further called for adoption of effective measures to streamline migration rather than exploiting such unfortunate events to put Libya's name into disrepute in order to cover up inability to deal with the phenomenon so as to achieve gains that are imaginary contrary to the truth.

The transition from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages in Europe is marked by two key events in European history, i.e., the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the migration into this Empire by various barbarian tribes such as the Goths, Alemanni, Franks, and Lombards.

«If climate were causing this, we would expect to see these extinction events either sometimes (diverging from) human migration across the globe or always lining up with clear climate events in the record,» said Lyons, assistant professor of biology at Nebraska.

Food shortage, drought, migration and human security are issues in a society that can later unfold to big issues between states, Slaughter said at the event.

The shallow tremors had similar migration properties to deep low - frequency tremors that occur at the deep subducting plate interface, and that they also occurred synchronized in time and space with shallow very - low - frequency tremors that also thought to be triggered by slow slip events.

To see if the same chain of events happens in rheumatoid arthritis, Smith's team tested whether various kinds of fibroblasts would spur T cell migration in test tubes.

By comparing the ancient genome to DNA from modern Africans, the team have been able to show that not only do East African populations today have as much as 25 % Eurasian ancestry from this event, but that African populations in all corners of the continent — from the far West to the South — have at least 5 % of their genome traceable to the Eurasian migration.

The genome analysis also questions previous findings that modern humans populated Asia in two waves from their origin in Africa, finding instead a common origin for all populations in the Asia - Pacific region, dating back to a single out - of - Africa migration event.

If the migration from Indonesia to Madagascar was «a limited event» which brought only a small number of colonizers in a few voyages, then why does the human population of the island have such a high diversity of maternal and paternal lineages with Indonesian origin?

Meanwhile, disastrous events like floods, volcanos, landslides and earthquakes — the four events posing the highest risks in the provinces — led to «no large, consistent or significant effects on migration.»

«There's a tradeoff between saving energy to successfully survive the additional migration event and putting all of their eggs in one basket.»

Additional migrations and other demographic events occurring after the Neolithic Age in Europe then partially replaced G2a with other lineages, except in geographically isolated areas such as Sardinia.

These migration events were driven by climate change connected to variations in Earth's orbit.

Historical events that influenced the patterns of migration and mating among our ancestors are reflected in our DNA — in our genetic relationships with each other and in our genetic risks for disease.

Timeline of events leading up to the civil uprising in March 2011, along with a graph showing the net migration of displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees into urban areas (in millions) since 2005.

Table S2 Alternative scenarios for hominin migration events based on putative timings in the literature.

Secondly, the existence of SE - NW clinal patterns in Europe may reflect the accumulation of small migrations entering the continent rather than a single migratory event [17].

- Synthesis of specific inhibitors of beta - catenin The progressive accumulation of nuclear beta - catenin, which deregulates cellular proliferation, differentiation, and migration, is an initial event in the development of colonic tumorigenes.

We reveal the distinct and datable expansion routes of populations from these three refugia throughout Southwest Asia and into Europe and North Africa and discuss the possible correlations of these migrations to various cultural and climatic events evident in the archaeological record of the past 15,000 years.

To this end, his work often relies on anthropology and human history as much as it does on genome sequencing and computation, in order to decipher the subtle genetic signatures that appear when species undergo major events such as population bottlenecks, large - scale migration or dispersal events, or the development of resistance to disease.

These events include the death of Lim's grandfather at the hands of Japanese soldiers as well as the grandfather's possible involvement in wartime collaborations with the enemy, a lost love lurking in the jungles of that stricken Malaysian village, and the story of the eventual migration of the family, via Australia and Hong Kong, to Vancouver, British Columbia.

Featuring exhibitions, a residency, curated events, and a publication, the project seeks to explore possibilities for a critical aesthetics and poetics of diaspora, approaching «nostalgia» as a vehicle for negotiating «place» in migration (against the «nostalgic» as a mode of representation); and spatial, oral and aural forms of «leisure» as processes of inscribing, translating and performing identity, memory, and territory.

The eloquence of their work in reflecting on the nature of the societies from which they departed, and the character of those in which they came to be rooted anew, will give us much to consider against the backdrop of the cataclysmic global events that have caused massive human migrations in our own time.

In this complex scenario, Teresa Margolles deals with material fragments of buildings, transporting them across borders and reassembling them remotely in large format sculptures, as a call to read these traces as part of larger processes, events and social relations, such as migration, international drug trade, or human traffickinIn this complex scenario, Teresa Margolles deals with material fragments of buildings, transporting them across borders and reassembling them remotely in large format sculptures, as a call to read these traces as part of larger processes, events and social relations, such as migration, international drug trade, or human traffickinin large format sculptures, as a call to read these traces as part of larger processes, events and social relations, such as migration, international drug trade, or human trafficking.

You may, however want to plan out your day because spending more than several hours at a time at a huge event like this is problematic not only because of the sprawl of the various studios (and those of you who are not familiar with the neighborhood, it is, as a friend described to me after 5 hours of our own migrations, «what SoHo used to look like in the» 70's).

This exhibition is rooted in contemporary events that deal with a current humanitarian crisis of migration in the Middle East, but Peters» work captures the unspoken side of this narrative.

Inspired by personal experiences growing up in the south as well as distinct events in American history like the migration of African - Americans from south to north and the Watts uprising of 1965, Outterbridge's works are as rooted in folk and African art as they are in dialogue with twentieth century art movements such as Dada, assemblage, and the readymade.

Related topics: Palestinian artists, gallery shows, migration, nationalism, identity art, events in London

From 2008 to 2012 as a curator at Tate Britain he directed the pioneering Cross Cultural Programme that explored questions of migration and globalisation in contemporary British art through a programme of international conferences, workshops, talks and live art events.

Literature and global events, such as the migration crisis, have also fueled works in the exhibition.

A series of lectures and special events will address current political questions on themes such as neo-colonialism, the causes for flight and migration, and the new rise in nationalism in Europe, posited from within the context of cultural and artistic positions.

Isaac Julien on His Film Installation PLAYTIME Artforum Exploring the premise that migration is driven by the pursuit of capital, Isaac Julien's seven - screen film installation focuses on six characters, archetypes based in three cities defined by major financial events and trends — London, Dubai and Reykjavik, Iceland.

Displacement risk increases when populations that lack the resources for planned migration experience higher exposure to extreme weather events, in both rural and urban areas, particularly in developing countries with low income.

As the Migration Policy Institute elaborates in an article examining the complexities of climate change and migration, a weather - related event — whether it's gradual glacial melting or a sudden superstorm like Sandy — can increase pressures on land, food, and water resources.

The fall in temperatures that accompanied the 8.2 ka event also corresponded with abrupt migrations of human populations and abandonment of sites ranging from Spain to Greece and in the Middle East (Gonzalez - Samperiz et al., 2009)....

In South Asia, distress migration owing to climate events and particularly droughts is high, as over three - quarters of the population is dependent on agriculture, out of which more than half are subsistence farmers depending on rains for irrigation.

Brigadier General (ret) Chris King, chief academic officer for the United States Army's Command and General Staff College, warned that failed states, extreme weather events and mass migration could be «debilitating» and represented real dangers to global stability in the coming years.

Around the globe, extreme events such as floods, droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, and heat waves increasingly result in forced migration and loss of life, property, and security.

If we don't curb our carbon - emitting ways, the alarmists warn, we face «increasingly radical temperature changes, a worldwide upsurge in violent weather events, widespread drought, flooding, wildfires, famine, species extinction, rising sea levels, mass migration, and epidemic disease that will leave no country untouched.»

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

There are numerous studies of phenology (study of the timing of periodic biological / ecological events) that demonstrate damage to specific species and ecosystems, because of changes in the timing of migration, reproduction, and arrival of prey species.

Their numbers could increase, and so could the likelihood of their migration becoming permanent, if such events increase in frequency.

The devastating effects of sea level rise and extreme weather events have the potential to result in migration, humanitarian crises and international conflict.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).