Sentences with phrase «other climate change factors»

The feature which is enabled to tell about the condition of soil and other climate change factors are supported by VeChai blockchain network.

Study of historical records to determine how sea levels could be affected by global warming and other climate change factors was detailed in the journal Science.

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Other factors that may affect the timing of a sale are availability of bank financing, interest rate trends, changes in tax law, and the general economic climate.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

There are clearly other factors that could have a major influence on the storyline, including how geopolitical tensions are resolved and how we adjust to climate change.

These factors — many of which are beyond our control and the effects of which can be difficult to predict — include: credit, market, liquidity and funding, insurance, operational, regulatory compliance, strategic, reputation, legal and regulatory environment, competitive and systemic risks and other risks discussed in the risk sections of our 2017 Annual Report; including global uncertainty and volatility, elevated Canadian housing prices and household indebtedness, information technology and cyber risk, regulatory change, technological innovation and new entrants, global environmental policy and climate change, changes in consumer behavior, the end of quantitative easing, the business and economic conditions in the geographic regions in which we operate, the effects of changes in government fiscal, monetary and other policies, tax risk and transparency and environmental and social risk.

The emergence of climate change and critical constraints on fossil fuel and other non-renewable resources as key limiting factors for the expansion or even maintenance of existing large - scale food production systems in Australia

Climate change, development, and invasive species, among other factors, are altering the Commonwealth's lands and the plants and animals that depend on these habitats.

It remains too soon to tell exactly how this climate system will work under changed conditions and other environmental factors — such as whether the cooling effect of the soot generated by industry and burning forests outweighs the warming effect of greenhouse gases — which may play large roles.

That means the future of agriculture as the climate changes could be even worse than this prediction — and that's before taking into account other factors such as the effect of pests.

But post-disaster is also a really good time to think about creating more resilient communities that factor in climate change and other stressors and plan for a time when flood insurance might not be as heavily subsidized.

Yeh said the team's approach could also be used to study how four or more pharmaceuticals interact, and a similar mathematical framework could be used to better understand climate change (for example, to understand how temperature, rainfall, humidity and acidity of the oceans interact) and other scientific questions that have three or more key factors.

Worldwide, most reefs were «substantially degraded before 1900,» they report, long before recent episodes of coral bleaching caused by climate change or other factors began.

Climate change, or some other factor, might have caused an unusual bloom of phytoplankton with lots of carotenoids in 1996 in the north Atlantic, says Ron Kaufmann of the University of San Diego.

A scientific study to understand the impact of climate change and other factors on plant - pollinator interactions, geographic distributions and seasonal abundances

Daintree is just one of the sites in Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an information - sharing organization that collects, manages, and shares data on flora, fauna, and other environmental factors to capture snapshots of what key wilderness ecosystems look like now and measure the potential effects of climate change.

The plan, released yesterday, also recommends numerous measures to address growing concerns about the threat that bees, birds, butterflies, and other pollinators face from multiple factors, including pathogens, pesticides, climate change, and habitat loss.

But increasing human density, climate change, or other factors may have resulted in scarcities in these prey, such that wolves began scavenging to survive.

Instead, these opportunistic organisms may simply be capitalizing on the slow death of the invertebrates due to pollution, climate change, or other factors.

It's less costly to get electricity from wind turbines and solar panels than coal - fired power plants when climate change costs and other health impacts are factored in, according to a new study published in Springer's Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

Understanding how climate change might influence flooding has been a tricky endeavor because so many other factors, like urbanization, deforestation or the dredging of rivers, also impact how often floods occur and how big they are, muddying the picture.

Analysis of great ape genetic diversity is likely to reveal ways that natural selection, population growth and collapse, geographic isolation and migration, climate and geological changes, and other factors shaped primate evolution.

«Because climate change affects some environmental factors like precipitation and temperature but not others like day length, phenotypic plasticity could allow some species to persist in a habitat despite changing conditions and provide more time for them to evolve and migrate,» says co-author Zachariah Gezon, a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth.

Even models that correctly capture cloud behavior may fail to fully account for other climate feedbacks from factors like changing snow and sea ice cover, atmospheric water vapor content, and temperature.

Scientists studying the potential effects of climate change on the world's animal and plant species are focusing on the wrong factors, according to a new paper by a research team from the Wildlife Conservation Society, University of Queensland, and other organizations.

Other studies have gauged how climate changes will affect migration, flowering, and other factors that could put plants and animals out of step with the world around Other studies have gauged how climate changes will affect migration, flowering, and other factors that could put plants and animals out of step with the world around other factors that could put plants and animals out of step with the world around them.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

Whether they will actually lead to a greater incidence of the disease will be complicated by factors including control measures, the availability of drugs, and even other indirect effects of climate change, such as population changes, migration and urbanization.

About 80 percent of threatened birds, 75 percent of threatened amphibians, and 19 percent of threatened corals are considered «susceptible» to climate change in the future owing to their specialized habitat needs, physiological limitations, or other factors.

A new study, released Friday in the journal Nature Communications finds that plants in carbon - rich European peat bogs are able to adapt to changes in temperature, precipitation and other climate - related factors.

Carbon - rich peat bogs seem to adapt well to changes in temperature, precipitation and other climate - related factors

«Climate changes predicted by the global circulation models would cause several percent of the Mexican population to move north [if] all other factors are held constant.»

The capacity for genetic adaption is, however, not enough to guarantee success, Geerts adds: «Climate change may have an impact on other factors as well.

However, there's a whole army of other factors that we need to be more concerned about than scientific collecting — including habitat loss, pathogens, human activities and climate change.

Such trends mean scientists and policymakers will have to factor in how synthetic climate forcers other than greenhouse gases will change temperature, rainfall and weather extremes.

Colla noted that The International Union for Conservation of Nature recently assessed North American bumblebees and found that one quarter to one third of the species are at risk of extinction due to climate change and other factors such as habitat loss and disease.

Climate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a result of increasing trade with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197 Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect cClimate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a result of increasing trade with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197 Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect cclimate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect contact.

«The other major factor is climate change.

Even without human - caused climate change, wildfires would have increased in many regions due to other human activities and natural factors.

«How much was due to trends / climate change and how much was due to other factors?»

On the other hand, they do claim the greater changes were perhaps due to forcings & factors (solar radiation & volcanos), so would this then show greater climate sensitivity both to nature & us?

This changing climate sensitivity may be the result of other environmental factors that have, since the 1950s, increasingly acted to reduce tree - ring density below the level expected on the basis of summer temperature changes.

As discussed throughout this assessment, the interplay of many variables complicates differentiation of the effects of climate change from other driving factors.

The Yoder Lab studies how coevolution between interacting species helps to create and maintain biodiversity, and how intimate species interactions can help or hinder adaptation to other factors, including changing climate.

Microbiomes maintain healthy function of these diverse ecosystems, influencing human health, climate change, food security and other factors.

Since then, scientists have learned more about crop science, climate change and other factors.

It's really no surprise that climate change is bringing heat waves with it, but the research team hopes that their study will inspire other researchers to incorporate social factors as well, such as population change, into studies of climate change impacts.

All of the above and more while tackling the effects of climate change, pollution and other environmental factors that can harm and do harm people's health, livelihoods and lives.

The pension metrics system will give Wells Fargo Institutional Retirement and Trust the flexibility to offer clients live modeling updates by changing assumptions and other factors, generating a living document that matches today's volatile investment climate.

Thanks to pollution, changing climate, and a host of other factors, the reefs are having a hard time of it — which is where the repopulation program has stepped in to help.