Sentences with phrase «of international scientists saying»

With Democrats controlling the environmental agenda in Congress, a panel of international scientists saying there's a greater - than - 90 percent chance that humans contribute to global warming, and former vice president Al Gore calling climate change a moral issue, many besieged global warming skeptics are starting to tone down their rhetoric.

By modeling the impacts that formed these craters, a team of international scientists said it was able to peer into the heart of Vesta.

A team of international scientists says that it is virtually certain that the heat wave that stretched across much of Europe in early July was more likely to happen now than in the past due to climate change.

A team of international scientists says that it is virtually certain that the heat wave that stretched across much of Europe in early July was more likely to happen now than in the past due to climate change.

Kudzu, zebra mussels and Africanized honeybees are some of the more well - known invasive species, but a team of international scientists says those are just the beginning.

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Alden Meyer, international director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the Paris agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize.

«All of the harmful effects on the environment and on health needs to be priced into food products,» said Hajer, who is a member of U.N.'s International Resource Panel, which comprises 34 top scientists and 30 governments.

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«This will make saline - stricken rice farms in coastal areas usable to farmers,» said lead scientist Dr. Kshirod Jena of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

«A scientist also produces masterpieces,» said Bruce Tolentino, deputy director general for communication and partnerships of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).

«For many years, we have searched for genes that improve phosphorus uptake,» said Dr. Sigrid Heuer, senior scientist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and leader of the team that published the discovery in Nature.

Dr. Umesh Singh, senior scientist at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), said, «Earlier, we only provided and field - tested IRRI rice lines that were tolerant of flooding.

Any kind of educational context where international scientists are present and people have more time to talk — summer schools, seminars, or workshops, for example — are good places to make contact with potential mentors abroad, Žagrović says.

Chinese scientists «are becoming leaders in the field of x-ray astrophysics,» says Andrea Santangelo, an astrophysicist at the University of Tübingen in Germany and eXTP's international coordinator.

Gurdev Khush of the International Rice Research Institute in Los Baños, Philippines, said the devastation will be «a major setback for India's rice research program» and a «tremendous loss» for scientists around the world.

«The attendance of international scientists at U.S. meetings and conferences is important in terms of the intellectual content they contribute, for the benefit to the United States from the formation and sustainment of partnerships with U.S. counterparts, and in terms of benefits to the U.S. economy,» the letter said.

But money is only part of what makes a EURYI award useful, says Brian O'Neill, a climate scientist at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, who was one of the first EURYI winners 3 years ago.

Susan Lieberman, deputy director of international policy at the Pew Environment Group, says that by focusing attention on Collette's paper and other assessments of the dire state of tuna fisheries, conservationists and scientists can pressure the RFMOs to make important decisions.

«If the Senate bill in its final form does not allow companies to use international offsets to achieve their targets, then the U.S. as a source of funding for REDD would die,» said Daniel Nepstad, a senior scientist with the Woods Hole Research Center, which is a member of Hurowitz's Tropical Forest and Climate Coalition, meaning other countries might have to fill that gap with their own funding and offset needs.

«The ice cores obtained through international collaborations were critical to the success of this study in that they allowed us to develop records from parts of Antarctica not often visited by U.S. - based scientists,» said co-author Tom Neumann of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who participated in a Norway - U.S. traverse that collected several of the cores used in this study.

«We applaud this latest achievement of our many Penn State scientists and students who have helped to build and are helping to develop this innovative new technology and its system of international collaboration among many research teams worldwide,» said Nicholas P. Jones, Penn State's Executive Vice President and Provost.

«We had very high rates of Zika transmission where it was very warm and very dry,» said co-author Madeleine Thomson, a senior research scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University.

New findings from an international team of scientists reveal that light can make molecular rotors spin more than a million times faster than before, which researchers say could one day have applications such as winding up pulleys in synthetic muscles.

Although some lakes can also absorb CO2 at their surfaces similar to the way oceans do, the increases in these other sources of organic and inorganic carbon are likely the dominant factor, says Scott Higgins, a research scientist at the International Institute for Sustainable Development's Experimental Lakes Area, a natural laboratory of 58 small lakes in Ontario.

«There is no scientific body of national or international standing that rejects the findings of human - induced effects on climate,» Peter Gleick, a scientist and president of the Pacific Institute, an environmental group, said on a conference call on Wednesday.

«Ninety percent of scientists involved in this kind of international exchange» could fit the description of Xi's activities in China, he says.

«Scientists now have a kind of standard international culture,» he says.

A push for oil sands oversight and new climate targets Harper has been a target of environmentalists for most of his tenure — they say he turned Canada into an international pariah by not regulating greenhouse gases from oil and gas, cutting clean energy and climate science programs, withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol, «muzzling» scientists, pressing aggressively on Keystone XL and fossil fuels, and allowing the country's emissions trajectory to spiral away from targets under the Copenhagen Accord.

Ulla Wewer, dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, where the CPR is housed, says they are «recruiting a strong team of international scientists to do basic research, knowing this will eventually strengthen industry.»

Judy King, director of human resources at the International Life Sciences Institute, says she needs «people - people» — a trait often lacking in scientists who prefer working in a laboratory.

«This is pioneering work,» says materials scientist Ray Baughman of Honeywell International in Morristown, New Jersey.

Vil Mirzayanov, the scientist accused of revealing state secrets about Russia's chemical weapons programme, says international pressure secured his release from prison last month.

«Scientists are not trained to speak out and enter the political fray,» says Martin, the international director of the support group Whistleblowers Australia.

As the science of soot has become clearer, Congress as well as international climate negotiators have begun to consider their options for reducing soot, but scientists testifying at the hearing said they should act faster.

Seoul — Progress in finding vaccines against the leading killers in the developing world will require greater attention to the needs of those countries, says a group of scientists who are helping to launch the International Vaccine Institute in Seoul

At the moment, a survey of 300 Arctic scientists revealed, many researchers who participate in international research collaborations «do so as a volunteer activity,» Pfirman said.

Organizers say the commission will be based at Somerville College at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and will work with scientists from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean.

Passenger drone makers are «obviously still in the incubation stages of technology development and improving the basics,» says Mike Hirschberg, executive director of the American Helicopter Society International, an organization for engineers and scientists that promotes VTOL technology.

David Victor, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, says the international community is likely to keep soldiering on with the agreement.

Princeton scientist — it's too early to admit defeat Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University, said he also believes scientists have been clear about what sticking to 2 degrees will entail and how far nations are from getting there.

While his new study makes no use of the huge computer models commonly used by scientists to estimate the magnitude of future climate change, Lovejoy's findings effectively complement those of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), he says.

«Chicxulub is the only preserved structure with an intact peak ring that we can get to,» says University of Texas, Austin, geophysicist Sean Gulick, co — chief scientist for the $ 10 million project, sponsored by the International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) and the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program.

«We need to bring in different disciplines, from computer science, engineering, math and modeling to human behavior, sociology, economics and education,» said David Balenson, another of the lead authors and a senior computer scientist at SRI International.

It «presents a very clear and easy to understand up - to - date summary of the population trends and status of the birds in the U.S.,» says Stuart Butchart, a conservation scientist at BirdLife International in Cambridge, U.K. «Everyone ought to pay attention to what this report tells us.»

I'm immensely proud of British scientists, who really are among the world's best, as demonstrated by the strong showing in the recent international space life sciences competition,» U.K. Space Agency CEO David Parker said in a statement.

And though the international teams of scientists are not certain how this extinct human would have walked, they say the swagger would have been quite different from ours.

Gerald Boalch, of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in Britain, says he and other scientists opposed the plan to grow Undaria in Europe six years ago at the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas.

«The heads of the main international research bodies are expert scientists,» she says.

«In extreme cases, if the dose is too high radiation can modify the cellular structure and generate alteration in the cells of organs found near the tumor, this causes them to lose their functions,» said Massillon, who was honored for her research with the IUPAP Young Scientist Prize 2015 awarded by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.

«Few people can see the really big picture, that human activities are resulting in the demise of tropical forests around the world and this has serious consequences,» said Anthony Rylands, deputy chair of the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group and senior research scientist at Conservation International.