Sentences with phrase «more ecological damage»

This is a wake - up call for cat owners and communities to get serious about this problem before even more ecological damage occurs,» Fenwick said.

Not exact matches

It is even more difficult to provide convincing evidence of the dangers to life caused by the rapid extinction of species and by other forms of ecological damage.

«It is also believed that the damage of using chemicals to deal with the problems may do more ecological harm than zebra mussels themselves.

The same increase in carbon dioxide that caused the ocean to become more acidic might also have sparked major ecological damage on land.

More heat - resistant zooxanthellae may come with ecological costs, such as reduced growth and reduced reproductive ability, and hence lower recovery following damage.

However, he's been more concerned about their damaging ecological impact rather than the health consequences they might present, I think.

Another is ecological damage, like the loss of mangroves in Myanmar that appears to have allowed the flood surge there to propagate inland more readily.

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.

The scope and impacts of climate change — including rising seas, more damaging extreme weather events, and severe ecological disruption — demand that we consider all possible options for limiting heat - trapping gas emissions — including their respective costs and timelines for implementation.

Large dam building flourished during the third quarter of the last century, but then slowed as the remaining good sites for dam building dwindled and as the costs of displacing people, ecological damage, and land inundation became more visible.

(02/27/2008) More than half the Amazon rainforest will be damaged or destroyed within 20 years if deforestation, forest fires, and climate trends continue apace, warns a study published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Reviewing recent trends in economic, ecological and climatic processes in Amazonia, Daniel Nepstad and colleagues forecast that 55 percent of Amazon forests will be «cleared, logged, damaged by drought, or burned» in the next 20 years.

First, it's a goal — a society in which capitalism no longer dominates and which places a high priority on repairing the ecological damage that has been done and ensuring that we don't do any more.

«Sheep farming in this country is a slow - burning ecological disaster which has done more damage to the living systems of this country than either climate change or industrial pollution,» he writes.