Sentences with phrase «new plant resources»

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.

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MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has approved a request to pull millions of gallons of water daily from Lake Michigan to serve a new Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing plant, helping the Taiwanese electronics giant clear a major regulatory hurdle.

DESPITE difficulties in the resources sector the industry is still spinning off benefits for Perth with the opening of the $ 5 million Nilos Australia conveyor belt reconditioning plant and a new $ 6 million mineral ore pilot testing plant at Kewdale.

TCPL wished to construct two new pipelines to deliver synthetic crude from Canadian Natural Resources Limited's Horizon processing plant to a pipeline terminal in the area close to Fort MacKay.

Therefore, the plants with genes for superhot chiles had more offspring than the chiles with other parents.The mutation was discovered in 2016 by Dr. Peter Cooke of the New Mexico State University Core University Research Resources Laboratory.

«Rice genetics is all about understanding the genes of rice so that we can develop new and improved rice varieties to help farmers produce more rice, with fewer resources and despite challenges like climate change,» said event convener, Dr. Eero Nissila, head of the Plant Breeding, Genetics, and Biotechnology Division at IRRI.

«Over a decade ago, building new plants in New York City was easier because Con Edison was in the business of both generating and distributing power, and could build new plants whenever they were needed, said Ashok Gupta, director of energy policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.&raqnew plants in New York City was easier because Con Edison was in the business of both generating and distributing power, and could build new plants whenever they were needed, said Ashok Gupta, director of energy policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.&raqNew York City was easier because Con Edison was in the business of both generating and distributing power, and could build new plants whenever they were needed, said Ashok Gupta, director of energy policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.&raqnew plants whenever they were needed, said Ashok Gupta, director of energy policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.»

«The experts testified that New York has the resources to replace these nuclear plants; now the decision makers need the will to make it happen,» said Assemblymember James Brennan, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions.

Even with the caveat of building a new generation of nuclear plants in «limited» circumstances, this was a big policy U-turn for the party, which has long preferred to favour renewable energy resources.

My campaign is calling for 100 % Clean Energy in New York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grNew York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grnew fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grid.

The Saratoga County Prosperity Partnership's strategic plan, The Saratoga Strategy, outlines our efforts to secure new jobs and capital investment by engaging existing business owners, fostering the growth of early stage companies and planting the seeds and providing resources for new start - up ventures in Saratoga County.

The new deal between the Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency and the company that runs its waste - to - energy plant in Jamesville calls for burning more trash, but OCRRA officials say that isn't a problem.

«Orchids, almost alone among flowering plants, have a large number of species that lure pollinators by mimicking a mate, or a nesting site or food resources — «lies all for the sake of love» — but such deceit seems to have played no role in accelerating the formation of new orchid species.»

The rapid expansion of the North Slope's snow - free season has had consequences for water resources, wildlife behavior, the plant growing season and more, the research team reported in the new paper.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersnew policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New JersNew Jersey.

Axel Diederichsen, curator of Plant Gene Resources of Canada in Saskatoon, says the new study's effort to document and map missing wild diversity is valuable.

That remarkable turnaround was accomplished through national campaigns to conserve and reuse Israel's meager water resources, but the biggest impact came from a new wave of desalination plants.

Plant breeding research elsewhere in the world has benefited from advances in genomics and molecular markers, but plant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in CPlant breeding research elsewhere in the world has benefited from advances in genomics and molecular markers, but plant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in Cplant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in China.

The Department of Energy, meanwhile, is working with governors and transmission officials in Texas and the western United States on a multi-year computer project to find the best locations for new power plants faced with growing scarcity in nearby water resources to cool down their operations.

«New tools will drive greater understanding of wheat genes: Vast genetic resource will aid development of wheat plants with improved traits.»

A report by Western Resource Advocates notes that «thermoelectric power plants in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah consumed an estimated 292 million gallons of water a day in 2005 - approximately equal to the water consumed by Denver, Phoenix, and Albuquerque, combined.»

Transplanting wild microbes from healthy related plants can make a native Hawaiian plant healthier and likelier to survive in wild according to new research from The Amend Laboratory in the University of Hawai'i at M?noa (UHM) Botany Department and the O'ahu Army Natural Resources Program (OANRP).

A recent study by the World Resources Institute think tank in Washington, D.C., found that capacity is expected to more than double to 519 GW with the construction of 455 proposed new plants.

PEER is a new program created to elevate interest in plant science and agriculture for K - 12 students in a region that has almost no programming or resources in this area of science education.

It might seem that for a rain forest the more trees the merrier, but a new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution warns that non-native trees invading a rain forest can change its basic ecological structure — rendering it less hospitable to the myriad plant and animal species that depend on its resources.

Whether you're new to plant - based eating or have fully adopted the lifestyle, having resources for inspiration keeps things fresh and exciting.

There are two great new resources for those who want to raise their families on plant - based diets: one my Reed Mengels and one by Jack Norris and Ginny Messina.

Anything from keeping my spider plant from croaking during the winter to finishing a writing project; from directing a new MS patient towards the resources she needs to take better care of herself to beating my mother at canasta (no easy feat, trust...

Microsoft Excel required A new set of data every time the file is opened 7 different topics of data ideal for making line and column graphs Plant growth, Daily temperatures, Pages read, Favourite colours Favourite food, Favourite board game, Favourite footbal team Use the data also, to create your own problem solving questions: highest, lowest, ordering... Project on the whiteboard or photocopy and distribute A versatile and visual resource which the students really enjoy working on

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Year 3 (Plants, Skeleton and Muscle System, Rocks and Soils, Light and Forces and Magnets) Year 4 (Living Things and Their Habitats, The Digestive System and Teeth, States of Matter, Sound and Electricity) Year 5 (Life Cycles, Human Growth, Materials, Earth and Space and Forces) Year 6 (The Circulatory and Respiratory System, Classification, Evolution, Light and Electricity) These are MUST HAVE resources for the new curriculum!

Just two days after the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources» Office of Oversight and Investigations released a damning review of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (mis) use of science in determining whether or not various plant and animal species should be protected under the Endangered Species Act, the Department of the Interior announced a new policy likely to make matters worse.

To further expand your control you have to fly out to a new, unclaimed sector and plant either the cheap radar station which will naturally pick up any ships travelling through the sector, construct a mining platform above a planet that will grant you extra resources, or go all out with a military outpost, which costs a small fortune but will also grant control of all adjacent sectors as well.

Each turn begins with what is known as the planting phase where you'll flip over cards to determine the resources you'll have for buying new advancements to add to your deck.

Collect resources in each level and use them to plant your own magical gardens, buy new items, and rebuild the 5 castles of Nevernear.

I recently learned of the phrase «slow changing stocks» — things like infrastructure and population growth which start out small, maybe a new power plant here or an oversized family there — but determine how we use resources far into the future.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

Resources spent building new nuclear power plants means resources diverted from other efforts — conservation, efficiency, wind, PV, biofuels, geothermal, mass transit, less car - oriented communities — that would produce more resultResources spent building new nuclear power plants means resources diverted from other efforts — conservation, efficiency, wind, PV, biofuels, geothermal, mass transit, less car - oriented communities — that would produce more resultresources diverted from other efforts — conservation, efficiency, wind, PV, biofuels, geothermal, mass transit, less car - oriented communities — that would produce more results faster.

Earlier this week, Daniel Lashof of the Natural Resources Defense Council blogged about the group's new proposal for cutting carbon dioxide emissions from American power plants — not just at the plant itself but by creating incentives for end users to conserve electricity.

From a campus lawn that was transformed into a no - dig garden to a Michigan woman threatened with 93 days in jail for planting a veggie garden instead of a lawn, the idea that we could do better with our precious resources than raise acres of monoculture grasses is hardly new here on TreeHugger.

Timing: June 2009 to May 2010 $ 50K funding: trail construction, planting of native vegetation, cleaning / protecting of cultural resource sites, two «Friends of the Forest» volunteer days Friends of City Park, New Orleans, Louisiana Couturie Forest & Arboretum Restoration Project: Friends of City Park will fund over 19 acres of ecosystem in Couturie Forest.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

Coal - fired power plants are a major source of greenhouse gas emissions — one that could be increasing significantly globally, according to new analysis from the World Resources Institute.

Carroll argues that this would allow time to implement a new request for offers, whereby energy storage and other clean energy assets («preferred resources,» in California's parlance) could compete to cost - effectively replace the gas plant.

However, if you plan to build new power plants to match supply to demand at all times, you're running into the same problems: it takes too much resources, money and time to go nuclear at such a scale.

The rule «reinforces what most power company executives and investors already understand — that if and when new coal plants make a comeback, they will need to be designed with carbon capture and storage,» said David Doniger, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

In the ACP's application to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Dominion Resources justifies the ACP in part by saying it will supply the newer of these plants.

Genome Alberta announced C$ 25.2 million (US$ 22.2 million) in public / private funding over four years for two new genomic research projects, one targeted at enhanced recovery of fossil hydrocarbon resources from oil sands and coal beds through biological processes, the other focused on discovering plant genes that can be sequenced and used... Read more →

NRG Energy is building a new gas plant that can be at full power in 10 minutes — a fast start time that will help firm up the power grid when intermittent renewable resources are not producing electricity.

In addition to its low cost, energy efficiency can provide new energy resources in much less time than it takes to build a new power plant.