Sentences with phrase «on mass migration»

While the scientists spell out what will happen to the vegetation and the water availability, they do not venture into predicting what conflict might arise if a billion people or more whose food supply would collapse embarked on mass migration to avoid starvation.

Shortly after Christmas, a friend and fellow researcher Doug Thomas sent me a link to a fascinating and moving fan - made video by Javier — marking his decision to leave the massively multiplayer game world, Star Wars Galaxies, and commenting on the mass migration of hard core fans and players from this space.

This is one in a series of posts I intend to write on the mass migration of almost - retired baby boomers moving from large corporations to free agency.

His research focuses on cultural psychology and psychological anthropology, with an emphasis on mass migration, globalization, and education.

These cleared paths, she concluded, made it easier for the bison to move around within the park and, on occasion, led them on mass migrations out of the park as well.

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In his study, «The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market,» Berkeley economist David Card concluded that despite a 7 % increase in the Miami labor market for unskilled workers, the mass migration had virtually no impact on local wages and unemployment.

This raises the prospect of a humanitarian crisis on the island and a mass wave of migration to the mainland.

It helps explain why deposit rates on checking accounts can languish near zero without banks fearing a mass migration of client money to online accounts with higher rates.

But this makes it difficult for them to see the potentially negative affects of mass migration on the cultural integrity and future of a nation, harms akin to those of imperialism, which the Church condemns.

In recent years, connections between climate and security were bolstered when President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State John Kerry spoke on the potential for conflict over climate - related resource scarcity and mass migration.

Not designed for an humanitarian crisis like that which has engulfed Europe, the regulation places the burden of a mass overland migration on the EU's border states, and it has been emphatically disregarded by Germany as they continue to lead Europe's disjointed response to the crisis.

The killings were on a scale not seen since the Partition of the subcontinent in August 1947 after the British had made their hurried departure, leaving behind the world's largest mass migration of humanity and suffering on an unimaginable scale.

Asked whether he accepted Clarke's view that there had been no mass migration in Europe on the Today programme, foreign secretary William Hague said: «That depends on what happens in the future.

The unexpected raid on depositors was, he continued, «a great way to encourage the mass migration of savings from weak banks in the Euro area to stronger banks somewhere else.»

Anticipated changes in the environment due to climate change may lead to mass migrations of people on a scale never before seen.

Likewise, a single - minded focus on hotspots might shortchange areas like the African savannah, which is low in endemic species but enables mass migration.

Shifts in rainfall patterns and shorelines will contribute to mass migrations on a scale never before seen

While scientists have generally attributed their swarming mass migrations to food shortages, there's a darker side of that hunger that keeps these insects on the march: If one stops marching, the others will devour it, as seen here.

Hurricane Maria's destruction on Puerto Rico could spawn one of the largest mass migration events in the United States» recent history, experts say, as tens of thousands of storm victims flee the island territory to rebuild their lives on the U.S. mainland.

Bangladesh and countries like it are on the frontline of mass migrations as a result of global warming, Part 2 of a special series

Bangladesh and countries like it are on the frontline of mass migrations as a result of global warming

It has long been debated whether that change in subsistence strategy involved the mass migration of people from the Near East bringing innovative technologies and domestic animals to Europe or whether it was due to a transmission of cultural practices passed on from neighbouring populations.

It's the mass migration of such holes that creates the large electrical currents responsible for generating the low - frequency magnetic pulses that make their way to detectors on Earth's surface, they say.

Understanding the biomechanics of this little snail could help engineers design some nifty sea - faring robots, and it could also help with ecological studies: Zooplankton like helicina move upwards to the surface of the ocean each night to eat (and avoid being eaten), and this mass migration of tiny organisms is one of the biggest biomass movements on the planet.

On the face of it, the romantic entanglement of an Armenian medical student, an American reporter, and an ethnic Armenian woman, who has lived most of her life in Paris, means little within the context of forced migration, death marches, labor camps, and mass executions.

It is believed that the new information will not be used as part of an investigation into the «impact of mass migration» on schools.

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There are several species of marine birds that do a reverse migration from Mexico, California, and Oregon, just to feed on the herring massing in the San Juan Islands.

The world's largest mass land migration with around two million animals on the move is an awe - inspiring sight, a quite breathtaking spectacle, as wildebeest, zebras, gazelle and eland make their journey from the Serengeti to the Masai Mara.

Virgil focuses on the tragedy of mass - migration of refugees reaching Australia from the third word by combining crude clips from news footage with picture of Hollywood stars, such as Elizabeth Taylor and Julie Christie.

The gnomes were produced in Ozbolt's home country, Serbia, and the work touches on notions of mass - migration and displacement.

At a time when mass migration due to the effects of climate change has become a critical concern, artist, and designer Andres L. Hernandez, and artist and dancer Zachary Fabri guide workshop participants through exercises focusing on drawing as an interpretative act of movement.

The Taiwan government, in an effort to help the butterflies make it north during their mass migrations, have set up special barriers on the highways where the butterflies pass over, and have even closed down some traffic lanes during the migration week to slow down the speeding cars.

That applies not only to the Australian drought, but to all aspects of climate change, whether it be loss of sea ice, loss of glaciers and ice caps, acidification of the oceans, desertification, mass migrations due to sea level rise, and so on.

There is no publicly accepted emotional preparation or rejection of sentimentality to deal with the suffering, tragedy, and mass migrations that we are all going to have to witness on television or internet.

Also, I believe we are seeing the beginning of a new glacial southern migration, the Arctic ice cap has thinned and the surface mass has been on the increase which to me is indicative of a glacial formation

In many arid parts of the world, desertification is a major issue, and advancing deserts and loss of formerly fertile lands can have a big impact on not just the local environment, but can also affect where and how people live in those areas, many times leading to mass migrations from the country to the cities.

While the 1930s Dust Bowl in the Midwest lasted four to eight years, depending upon location, a megadrought can last more than three decades, which could lead to mass population migration on a scale never before seen in this country.

These new normal conditions will cause mass migrations on an unprecedented scale.

Naturally, mass migration will put stresses on the countries where migrants are trying to move, and the stresses that lead to mass migration will also spur civil unrest within those countries.

All of this would be accompanied by a catalogue of catastrophes — extreme weather events, sea - level rise and so on — the harms of which would be magnified many-fold by geopolitical conflict and mass migrations.

Situations where water may run dry, where mass migrations are provoked by food shortages or where extreme weather events on the rise.

Climate induced mass migration would involve huge social upheaval — sure, it wouldn't count for much on geological timescales, but I'd rather not be in the midst of it.

The social foundations of children's mental and physical health and well - being are threatened by climate change because of: effects of sea level rise and decreased biologic diversity on the economic viability of agriculture, tourism, and indigenous communities; water scarcity and famine; mass migrations; decreased global stability46; and potentially increased violent conflict.47 These effects will likely be greatest for communities already experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage.48

Consider the facts: the climate system is indicated to have left the natural cycle path; multiple lines of evidence and studies from different fields all point to the human fingerprint on current climate change; the convergence of these evidence lines include ice mass loss, pattern changes, ocean acidification, plant and species migration, isotopic signature of CO2, changes in atmospheric composition, and many others.

The agency announced late last month that it was creating a Center on Climate Change and National Security to look at how droughts, rising seas, mass migrations and competition for resources could affect the nation's military and economic priorities.

Perhaps a mysterious superbug kills us all overnight, or maybe we organize a mass migration to live on the moon.

Take what you have learned from the scientists and imagine the world in a few decades from now, a few degrees warmer, with all the extreme weather, desertification, ocean acidification, mass migration, conflict over energy supplies, fresh water and so on, that have already begun, and that will only get worse the more we destabilize our climate system with greenhouse gases.

While a visitor to our shores might look out on the ocean and see one contiguous mass of water, our whale watching captains are looking at the contours of the ocean floor and the currents that orchestrate the feeding and migration of these animals to our waters.