Sentences with phrase «ocean resources in»
During a stop near Sydney, Australia, mainly framed around urging young people to join the Church, Pope Benedict XVI on Friday also spent time describing nature's wonders and wounds — «scars which mark the surface of our earth, erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world's mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption.»
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«New York State strongly opposes the Department of the Interior's National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program as it poses an unacceptable threat to New York's ocean resources, to our economy and to the future of our children,» Cuomo said in announcing the exclusion request.
«The long - term health of New York's economy is inextricably linked to protecting our ocean resources,» Cuomo wrote in his letter to Zinke.
If you need assistance buying a home in the Ocean State, there are resources available to get you there.
The Vision of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is excellence in the management of Outer Continental Shelf energy and mineral resources for environmental sustainability, economic development, and national security.
The Mission of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is to manage development of U.S. Outer Continental Shelf energy and mineral resources in an environmentally and economically responsible way.
The Board of Trade also believes the federal government's $ 1.5 - billion Oceans Protection Plan will lead to world - class marine safety here in British Columbia, enabling us to protect our coasts while also getting Canada's natural resources safely and responsibly to world markets.
Travel Market Report today released the second edition of its Ocean Cruise Report Card for Travel Agents, the third in a series of supplier policy report cards designed as a useful resource for travel professionals.
Stanford Research Institute: «In the coming decade, science and technology will provide new means to use the vast resources of the oceans, to exploit the Arctic and Antarctic, to explore space, perhaps to affect climates.
Pollution in the ocean directly affects ocean organisms and indirectly affects human health and resources.
«We are incredibly proud that we have been able to create locally - infused, ocean - linked dining experiences for our guests, in partnership with visionaries like Chef Andrés, who is not only one of the most talented Master Chefs in the world, but also an advocate for the protection and preservation of our country's natural resources.»
With relation to Man City their huge resources means that the additional outlay is literally a drop in the ocean.
Yes, water, as in «ocean water» is a renewable resource.
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Cuomo said in a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke that offshore drilling «poses an unacceptable threat» to New York's ocean resources and economy.
An innovator and lecturer at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region, Dr. Mark Amoo Boateng is seeking a $ 300,000 to enable him develop a programme to monitor the country's ocean systems.
The new proposed model could allow a better quantification of the impacts that will likely occur under changing climate and could be considered in future ocean resources and land use management.
The Sea Grant Knauss Fellowship provides a unique educational and professional experience to graduate students who have an interest in ocean, coastal and Great Lakes resources and in the national policy decisions affecting those resources.
The study also found that over 70 % of respondents supported marine protected areas (MPAs)-- regions established to protect natural resources in the oceans.
The Visiting Fellowships in Canadian Government Laboratories (VF) program can place applicants in any one of the 13 governmental departments or institutions that participate in the program, such as Agriculture Canada, Environment Canada, Fisheries and Ocean, National Research Council, and Natural Resources Canada, to name just a few.
Despite the need for more cooperation, in particular (and as discussed at the 2002 Johannesburg summit on sustainable development) in the sustainable management of natural resources such as water, forests, and oceans, many development and conservation - oriented projects have been cut back in recent years.
To reach his current position Leppan had to pay his dues, working in the areas of food security, community - based resource management, and sustainable ocean resource development in both Canada and abroad (including a 6 - year stint in South Africa).
Researchers working in Papua New Guinea think they may have been wiped out when the level of oxygen in the oceans rose dramatically, stimulating the evolution of oxygen - hungry fish that simply out - competed the ammonites for resources.
NOAA's mission is to understand and predict changes in the Earth's environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and to conserve and manage our coastal and marine resources.
The reports also identifies other challenges that impact sustained observations, such as the declining investment in new technological development, increasing difficulty in retaining and replenishing the human resources associated with sustained ocean observing, and a decreasing number of global and ocean - class research vessels.
At the same time researchers and technicians in key government and academic laboratories are integral to success in the U.S. at sustained ocean observing and are a resource that requires support.
Andrew Rosenberg, a scientist who led one of the report's chapters on oceans and directs the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the report outlines changes that are happening now in various systems from agriculture to water resources to forestry to oceans.
Aliens might want resources from our solar system (Earth's oceans, perhaps, full of hydrogen for refilling a fusion - powered spacecraft) and swat us aside if we get in the way, as we might dismiss mosquitoes or beetles stirred up by the logging of a rain forest.
Judy Skog, program director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences, which funded the research, said the findings should be incorporated into decisions about how we manage ocean resources like fisheries.
We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.
To test the state of the ocean, researchers at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management in Makati, Philippines, assigned each major food fish a «trophic level,» depending on how high it is on the food chain.
The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources wound up a week - long meeting in Hobart, Australia, considering proposals for two «marine protected areas» aimed at conserving the ocean wilderness from fishing, drilling for oil and other industrial interests.
But monitoring mercury levels in the oceans has proven a challenge for researchers because the metal is present only in tiny concentrations in seawater, and gathering samples from different oceans requires time and resources.
«This research is an important step,» says Garrison, «in being able to predict, and perhaps mitigate, the effects of ocean acidification on coastal resources.»
Daniel Pauly and Villi Christensen of the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management in the Philippines warn that the oceans can not sustain this level of exploitation.
«There is a realization that a diversified suite of renewable energy resources will displace fossil fuel,» said Monty Worthington, who is directing a tidal energy project in Alaska for the Maine - based Ocean Renewable Power Co. «To establish a place in the emerging marine renewable market, the time for [U.S.] investment is now.»
«This is going to be a tremendous resource for scientists and for people interested in studying ocean, climate, food webs and the evolution of life.
Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.
More recently, several island nations in the western Pacific and Indian oceans formed the Coral Triangle Initiative, adopting a 10 - year plan of action to avert growing threats to coral reefs, fish, coastal mangrove buffers and other marine resources across the region.
The wireless applications of the W - TENG are abundant, extending into resource - limited settings, such as in outer space, the middle of the ocean or even the military battlefield.
One large study of America's ocean waters, published in May by the Pew Oceans Commission, noted that U.S. policies have for decades focused on developing ocean resources rather than emphasizing conservation.
Should the U.N. accept their claim — an unlikely possibility, given that they've turned down similar claims from the Russian Bear in the past — Russia would be entitled to thousands of miles of the Arctic Ocean and 45 percent of the area's resources, according to some sources.
The main reason that companies aren't finding the workers they seek in an ocean of available ability, Cappelli believes, is that in recent decades, for reasons he explains, those companies have allowed their traditional human resources (HR) departments and training programs to atrophy.
Bacteria and small organisms like crabs and mussels brought in on ships coming from warmer oceans could spread disease and compete with native species for resources.
The maps could also be useful resources for deciding where to place instruments to monitor ocean oxygen levels in the future to get the best picture of climate change impacts.
«The results of this paper demonstrate that it is possible to use acoustic technologies to generate information about marine resources inside MPAs in a faster and less expensive way, reducing the costs for governments in ocean conservation.»
UNITED NATIONS — The biggest land grab since colonial times is accelerating as nations scramble to claim writ over hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean floor, much of it believed to be rich in natural resources.
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), which manages wind resources off the U.S. coast, held the country's largest offshore wind development lease auction in January for 742,000 acres of open water 12 miles off the shore of Martha's Vineyard.
In Darwin's day, the prevailing ethos of so - called free - market capitalism treated the planet as a limitless resource, and its atmosphere and oceans as an equally limitless repository for waste.
It is the policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, Indian tribes, and other interested stakeholders to use all practicable means and measures to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources to enable them to become more resilient, adapt to, and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification.