Sentences with phrase «of changing climate»

By bringing together microbial ecologists, biogeochemists her group examines the influence of microbial communities on coastal ocean processes, especially in light of a changing climate.

In the face of changing climate, forest managers can best maintain forest health and stable product yield by understanding past trends and planning for a range of climate scenarios.

Some, such as the sceptics S. Fred Singer and Dennis Avery, see no danger at all, maintaining that a warmer planet will be beneficial for mankind and other species on the planet and that «corals, trees, birds, mammals, and butterflies are adapting well to the routine reality of changing climate».

In this study, we apply an empirical growth and yield model for loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) to the southeastern United States in an effort to predict the impacts of changing climate

In the face of changing climate, forest managers can best maintain stable forest health and product yield by understanding past trends and planning for a range of climate scenarios.

Today we understand the impact of human activities on global mean temperature very well; however, high - impact extreme weather events are where the socio - economic impacts of a changing climate manifest itself and where our understanding is more in its infancy but nevertheless developing at pace.

Jiacan Yuan is a climatologist who is interested in understanding the fundamental dynamical processes in the atmosphere and improving climate models, which could give us better predictive power and risk assessment of the changing climate.

As a densely populated, highly urbanized coastal state, New Jersey is especially vulnerable to the impacts of a changing climate.

It will let the scientists mimic natural light and simulate a wide range of changing climate conditions.

«The best way to reduce the impact of climate change is to adapt to the effects of a changing climate... and to transition to non-carbon-based sources of energy to stop putting greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.»

Our research stations monitor key indicators of our changing climate through meteorological stations, oceanographic moorings, and an expanding array of sensors across the landscape and seascape.

«Confronting the challenges of a changing climate presents opportunities for managers and other decision - makers to plan ahead, foster resilient landscapes, and ensure that the benefits forests provide are sustained into the future,» said Michael T. Rains, Director of the Northern Research Station and the Forest Products Laboratory.

Central Appalachian forests have been experiencing the effects of a changing climate for decades, and effects such as more heavy rainfall events, more drought, and more hot days are likely to continue, according to a new vulnerability assessment for the region by the U.S. Forest Service and many partners.

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

The letter ends with a promise of collaboration, saying, «We in the scientific community are prepared to work with you on the scientific issues important to your deliberations as you seek to address the challenges of our changing climate.»

«A lot of communities in our country are struggling with how to plan to ensure reliable access to food, water and other things in their community in the face of a changing climate,» said Jack Fellows, vice president of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, which organized the conference that produced the report.

«A key premise of this commitment is that adaptation planning needs to be informed by a continuing scientific, sound assessment of the impacts of a changing climate and the effectiveness of preparations and response options,» Abbott said.

«This points to the unexplored risks of changing climate on aviation,» said coauthor Radley Horton, a climatologist at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

The document will, in part, spell out the potential disruptions the United States faces as a result of a changing climate, perhaps giving Holdren's idea some currency.

The consequences of our changing climate are one of the main issues facing crop production.

«The overwhelming scientific evidence of our changing climate can not be ignored,» Holt said in a statement.

In the Central Hardwoods, the effects of a changing climate are expected to include rising temperatures due to a rise in greenhouse gas concentrations, leading to longer growing seasons.

In his 1864 book Man and Nature (original title: Man the Disturber of Nature's Harmonies), George Perkins Marsh catalogued numerous examples of changing climate conditions on losing forests and wrote, «When the forest is gone, the great reservoir of moisture stored up in its vegetable mold [humus] is evaporated, and returns only in deluges of rain to wash away the parched dust into which that mold has been converted.

The ecological impacts of a changing climate are evident, from terrestrial polar regions to tropical marine environments.

Now sea otters and other important predator species face the challenges of a changing climate.

«It is very possible that improving connectivity and quality of existing habitats over the next few decades may offset the negative effects of a changing climate.»

Dr. Kit Macleod, catchment scientist at the James Hutton Institute and one of the authors of the paper, said: «Hybrid grasses of this type show potential for reducing the likelihood of flood generation, whilst providing pasture for food production under conditions of changing climate.

Creating sustainable food systems in the face of a changing climate isn't easy — but innovators around the world are making real progress

Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

In a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change an international research team modelled the impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously studied.

«By doing this, we can better understand and predict the future of HABs and water safety in the Lake Erie community with the impact of changing climate and environmental factors.»

The researchers also cautioned that the impacts of a changing climate on crop yields remain uncertain.

But in this world of changing climate, extreme summer ice loss has become almost expected.

Large power outages are expected to become more frequent as the result of a changing climate, where the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is increasing, as well as geomagnetic storms and attacks on grid infrastructure.

For entrepreneurial farmers like Sayles, the key to surviving intense droughts and other vagaries of a changing climate lies in testing new practices and abandoning old ones.

A record of changing climate in the Olduvai Gorge suggests early humans had to adapt to shifting ecosystems

Although current drought worries have been focused in the West — Western states have experienced insect outbreaks; mass tree die - offs; loss of water and carbon; bigger and more costly wildfires; and economic impacts to timber stands due to severe, multiyear drought — in the wake of a changing climate, the report notes that «all U.S. forests are vulnerable to drought.»

In fact, one symptom of a changing climate could be more varied or more extreme weather — but a couple of heavy snows wouldn't prove that either.

Such a move would have a profound impact on the unique languages and cultures including Pacific islanders — and in the Marshalls, locals have been talking about new ideas and phenomena as they've seen the preliminary effects of a changing climate on their coasts.

Compared with weather events like floods or cyclones, the droughts are a slow - onset manifestation of changing climate.

Syracuse Post-Standard: Banning words doesn't stop the reality of a changing climate by Howie Hawkins

A comprehensive look at the projected effects of our changing climate on our nesting birds by 2050.

While AOC is not the signing us fans think the club needs, it's a sign of the changing climate regarding «Home Grown» players.

This virtual issue provides a unique opportunity to exchange research knowledge, ideas and innovations, and develop an understanding of how primary industries can tackle the challenge of a changing climate.

Former Oasis singer narrates Climate Coalition's short film The Very Hot Snowman, to raise awareness of changing climate

Cocoa farmers in Sulawesi, Indonesia are adapting their farming practices to the new reality of a changing climate.

But as one of 8,000 Sulawesian smallholder cocoa farmers participating in a climate - smart program of the Rainforest Alliance and Olam Indonesia (under Millennium Challenge Account — Indonesia), Syamsuddin soon came to understand the new reality of a changing climate, and the urgent need to adapt his farming practices.

«With the unpredictability of the changing climate, farmers have no means of telling whether or not their farms will be affected.

«The world's poorest, who least deserve it, are hit hard by the life and death impacts of a changing climate, unstable seasons and a natural world out of balance.

«We seeing the impact of a changing climate as a result of those emissions on the very poorest people.»