Sentences with phrase «new face of climate change»

Forget about polar bears — these communities are the new face of climate change.

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The news was a sobering new data point supporting the long - accepted thesis that a rapidly changing climate is transforming the face of the earth.

As we face future known threats like war and climate change, and unknown threats like an asteroid impact or new disease, Downey said that that's the kind of knowledge we should want to have.

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

The changing climate will present new risks and new opportunities as we face the very complex task of producing enough food, feed, and fuel for a world on its way to nine billion increasingly prosperous people.

Panel discussion will feature climate policy experts and leading vintners at Vinexpo Bordeaux 2017, Sunday, June 18 NEW YORK — April 20, 2017 — The impact of climate change on viticulture and wine quality is among the most critical issues facing the global wine community today, as it prepares to converge on Bordeaux, France, this -LSB-...]

NEW YORK — April 20, 2017 — The impact of climate change on viticulture and wine quality is among the most critical issues facing the global wine community today, as it prepares to converge on Bordeaux, France, this June for Vinexpo Bordeaux 2017.

«From combating climate change and reducing carbon emissions to safeguarding our coastal communities and strengthening resiliency in the face of extreme weather — New York must continue to lead the way forward,» Cuomo said in the statement.

In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....

It flies in the face of science, fairness, common sense and the Governor's own greenhouse gas reduction targets to build new fracked gas power plants at a time when climate change is the most pressing issue facing our nation and the world.

Citing The Economist, Roseman said that one of the reasons why the new THSB curriculum is so critical for students is that the majority of the problems faced today, such as climate change, are fundamentally biological in nature.

New technology and research platforms are making it possible for researchers to identify those individuals and populations that will survive in the climates of the future and in the face of the myriad cascading effects of climate change.

Water shortages are being felt around the world yet impacts vary in different places, said Gleick, adding that the human, economic, and environmental costs of doing nothing, especially in the face of climate change and environmental security threats, are high and require «new thinking.»

A new study points to the risk that China and India will be facing severe water shortages by 2050 due to a perfect storm of economic growth, climate change, and fast growing populations.

«The concept of planetary health offers a new way of thinking about the health of our planet and its resilience in the face of pressures like climate change, urbanization and globalization, to name just a few,» said Helen Clark, administrator of the U.N. Development Programme, by video statement.

Due to climate change, she said, the world faces «one of the most daunting crossroads in the evolution of human history, we are at the point where we must decide: are we going to ignore science or are we going to rise to the call of history and forge a new life on Earth paradigm... where nature and humanity support each other.»

A new study offers hope for cold - water species in the face of climate change.

Above all, the new insights into the juvenile fish under the ice are important because it's still impossible to say how polar cod populations will change in the face of climate change.

After decades of fighting to keep creationism out of the classroom, US science education advocates are steeling themselves to face a new foe: climate change sceptics.

A new MIT study, published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reports that as climate change progresses, the city of Houston, and Texas in general, will face an increasing risk of devastating, Harvey - scale rainfall.

But for the regions that are faced with increasingly stressful weather patterns, «there's a great deal that could be done to offset the impacts of climate change through adaptation, farming with new technology and government policies that are conducive to promoting small - holder agriculture,» he said.

New research has identified areas of Earth that are high priorities for conservation in the face of climate change.

A new review paper emphasizes the crucial role birds play in helping trees colonize new habitats — especially in the face of a changing climate.

Many fishermen here feel threatened by a sweeping new set of fishing limits imposed this spring by authorities trying to rebuild fish stocks they say are depleted by overfishing and facing pressures that include climate change.

In the face of climate change, preserving Australia and New Guinea's bandicoot species will require more than just roadway vigilance.

A new study of amphibians argues that growing smaller to take up less resources won't always help a species avoid extinction in the face of a shrinking habitat, climate change, and disease.

Exhibitions and Productions Bow Arts (2017), «Rhino», London (solo show) Bow Arts (2016), «Desire Caught by the Tail», London (solo show) Wimbledon Space (2016), «The Golden Face Lift» (solo show) Dyson Gallery (2016), «Act Natural», London (exhibiting artist) Riverlight Gallery (2015), duo exhibition, London (exhibiting artist) The Rag Factory (2014), «Love Kills», London (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) The Chelsea Theatre (2014), «Love Kills», London (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) Floating Island Gallery (2014), group show, (exhibiting artist) Spill Festival (2013), «PORN», Ipswich (exhibiting artist) Departure Foundation (2013), group show, «Unperforming» (exhibiting artist) Testbed Gallery (2013), group show, «acts of 2», (exhibiting artist and curator) Testbed Gallery (2012), group show, «acts of», (exhibiting artist and curator) Freud Museum (2011), group show, Objects of Desire, London (exhibiting artist) Battersea Arts Centre (2010), Accidental Festival, London (exhibiting artist) Blue Print (2010), group show, In Time, London (exhibiting artist) perFORM (2009), group show, Triangle Space, London (exhibiting artist) Live Art Lectures (2009), group show, London (exhibiting artist) Disconnected (2009), web - based group show, created and uploaded in London (exhibiting artist) Tate Modern (2008), The Living Currency, London (live performance) Home Sweet Home (2008), various locales, London (co-founder and exhibiting artist, group show) Blackout (2008), group show, Chelsea Art, London (exhibiting artist) Press Play (2008), group show, Chelsea Art, London (exhibiting artist) Climate of Change (2007), group show, Southwark Art (exhibiting artist) Heiner Müller Programme (2001), Access Theatre, New York (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) Vengeance, Bloodlust & Afternoon Tea: Armageddon, Cupcakes & the Poisonous Love of Heiner Müller's «Quartet», «Heartpiece» & «Medeamaterial» (2005) Theatro Technis, London (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) EH JOE (1998), The Kraine, New York (as Artistic Director of LUXE / performer) Meditation JoJo (1996), Mabou Mines Suite, New York (director and solo performer for video) Dixon Place Funereal (1995),» Funereal», New York, (director and performer) Mabou Mines / Suite (1994), «Funereal», New York (director and performer) H.E.R.E. (1994), «HOME», New York (director and performer) Glendale Studio (1993), «HOME», Arizona (director and performer)

There are hints that new approaches will be taken by the academies, in finding better ways of conveying its findings and in reaching out to constituencies like cities that are facing sea - level change and farmers that are facing new normal climate zones.

Against this backdrop, new and ongoing work to help the greater Cleveland area become more resilient in the face of climate change can also address ongoing social justice problems, according to advocates, planners and local leaders.

17 In a world facing almost daily new evidence of climate change and its consequences, a quick and decisive victory is needed in the battle to cut carbon emissions and stabilize climate.

Asia Sentinel: The world faces another 17 years of potentially growing emissions from China's industries Despite having become the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases nearly two years ago, China is at least another 17 years away from peak emissions, according to a new report by the HSBC Climate Change Team, issued late last year.

Another frequently mentioned option is for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of New York to invoke the state's powerful stock - fraud statute, the Martin Act, as the state has done in recent years to force other fossil fuel companies to disclose more about the financial risks they face from climate change.

A clear but declining majority of Americans say climate change is a serious problem facing the United States in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, with giant partisan disagreement on all aspects of the issue.

Times of India: World climate change negotiators faced warnings on Thursday that a string of extreme weather events around the globe show urgent action on emission cuts is needed as they opened new talks in Bangkok.

Faced with this double whammy of climate change impacts and abandoned partially - built dams that have channelled rivers in new directions, residents of many Uttarakhand villages are now stuck behind multiple landslides, with food running out and their homes in danger of being washed away or buried under yet another landslide.

In the face of climate change tropical forests are rapidly declining, but soon they may be getting some help from space, according to new research.

Three new studies highlight the value of the world's unregarded forests — and the dangers they face as the climate changes.

Listing new challenges facing the humanitarian community, this technical document emphasizes that «climate change, population growth, rapid and unplanned urbanization, and food and water insecurity are leaving more and more people at risk of crisis.»

-- Excerpt: «In the face of ever mounting evidence that CO2 is incapable of causing the level of global devastation prophesied by climate change catastrophists a new villain is being sought.

See also: Laughing Gas Knocks Out CO2 — By Doug Hoffman — Oct. 30, 2009 — Excerpt: «In the face of ever mounting evidence that CO2 is incapable of causing the level of global devastation prophesied by climate change catastrophists a new villain is being sought.

The new NRC report, among many other findings, continues to chronicle the collapse of the ecosystem for polar bears in the face of climate change.

WASHINGTON — A sobering new report warns that the oceans face a «fundamental and irreversible ecological transformation» not seen in millions of years as greenhouse gases and climate change already have affected temperature, acidity, sea and oxygen levels, the food chain and possibly major currents that could alter global weather.

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In this commentary, broadcast on midhudsonnews.com in late July 2016, Scenic Hudson President Ned Sullivan updates listeners on Scenic Hudson's new Hudson Valley Conservation Strategy and how it can help protect the region's wildlife and working farms in the face of global climate change.

If firm action is not taken at the forthcoming climate change talks in Paris and the Earth's temperature warms by a further 5 degrees C then investors are facing losses of almost $ 7T at today's prices, new research shows.

Teachers stand on the front lines against dismissive attitudes toward climate change, and have had varying degrees of success in Idaho and Ohio classrooms in bringing students face - to - face with discomforting evidence, even when challenged by a new crop of deniers - in - training.

In recent years, New Yorkers, like people all over the world, have faced the realities of human - made climate change: extreme storms, rising sea levels, summer heat waves, massive winter nor'easter s, and a $ 20 billion plan to reduce future flooding.

Our response to climate change is uncannily similar to an even more universal disavowal: unwillingness to face our own mortality, says neuroscientist Janis Dickinson of Cornell University in New York.

The face of American forests is changing, thanks to climate change - induced shifts in rainfall and temperature that are causing shifts in the abundance of numerous tree species, according to a new paper by University of Florida...

Brazil's setting aside of more than 500,000 square miles (1.25 million square kilometers) of rainforest in protected areas over the past decade may effectively buffer the Amazon from the effects of climate change, preventing Earth's largest rainforest from tipping towards arid savanna in the face of ongoing deforestation and rising temperatures, argues a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).