Sentences with phrase «other environmental forces»

«There is no doubt that parenting plays a dynamic, cumulative role in human development in concert with biology and other environmental forces,» said Warren.

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In Puerto Rico and the USVI, the outages have led to ongoing health and environmental crises as idled sanitation systems have forced some to drink from contaminated wells and other water sources.

If anybody who knows more about coffee market forces can propose other possible environmental impacts, please chime in!

Schneiderman filed a suit in May against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and other federal agencies to force a full environmental review of the impact of fracking on the Delaware River Basin.

Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force, a nonprofit health and environmental advocacy group, cautions that the carbon reductions from the gas boom should not induce complacency about the importance of nuclear, renewable, and other zero - carbon energy sources.

For example, the Clean Air Act and other environmental laws contain «technology - forcing» provisions to drive the development of new technological solutions to pollution problems.

Background Architects and engineers must design buildings to withstand a variety of forces, some stronger than others, from many sources: gravity, people inside, weight of building materials, weather and environmental impacts.

The magnitude of our environmental problems, such as global warming and loss of the ozone layer, is forcing us to delve into the past and into other philosophies for an answer.

«Our data suggests that, during development, relative brain parts change their size in response to environmental cues without affecting overall brain size: increasing certain parts forces others to decrease concurrently.

He argues that geoarchaeology — a relatively new science that combines aspects of geology and archaeology — offers the potential to make dramatic contributions to our understanding of how climate change and other large - scale environmental forces are shaping human history.

The path of the Nicaragua Interoceanic Grand Canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will cut through Lake Cocibolca (aka Lake Nicaragua), Central America's main freshwater reservoir and the largest tropical freshwater lake of the Americas; this plan will force the relocation of indigenous populations and impact a fragile ecosystem, including species at risk of extinction, according to Rice University environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez and other members of the consortium.

More specifically, researchers led by the University of Idaho's Tara Hudiburg merged the DayCent ecological model with another, BEPAM, originally designed to study environmental and economic impacts of proposed biofuel policies, forming a combined model that simultaneously accounts for market forces, land use, transportation costs, and a variety of other factors.

He defends his choice to spend no more than $ 100 for family gifts on Christmas in saying, «If you believe that our consumer addiction represents our deepest problem — the force that keeps us from reaching out to others, from building a fair society, the force that drives so much of our environmental degradation — then Christmas is the nadir.

Every day, our skin is exposed to free radical attacks from UV light, air conditioning, radiation, and other harmful environmental forces.

This has included establishing an interagency task force consisting of 16 different federal government department and agencies, including Transportation, OMB, Treasury, Commerce, Interior, EPA, Agriculture, Labor, Energy, the Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, the Council of Environmental Quality, the Education department and others.

She uses force free methods that include environmental changes, management, clicker training and other behavior modification techniques.

Behaviors can be changed through environmental and behavior modifications along with other force - free methods.

His poetic use of found materials and his embrace of chance operations (whether dragging a canvas on the ground, allowing a drop cloth to absorb the environmental stains of the studio, or exposing the paintings to the forces of weather) can be seen echoed in the work of a subsequent generation of artists, including Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Urs Fischer, Wade Guyton, and Nate Lowman, among others.

Environmental forces, for example, are subtly contrasted with human touch in his «Essere fi ume» (To Be a River), 1981 — 95: In this series Penone paired two hefty stones, one shaped by a river's water over millennia, the other an identical copy recently carved by hand.

I'll add more thoughts about Mendes later, from scientists, environmental campaigners, and other people familiar with his life and legacy and the forces shaping tropical forests around the world.

Environmental groups have sought to force the federal government to restrict carbon dioxide emissions using the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act (because of threats to polar bears from global warming) and other federal laws, and now they are poised to add the Clean Water Act to the list.

Therefore, the cost - benefit analyses regarding the mitigation of CO2 and other greenhouse gases need to be considered along with the other human climate forcings in a broader environmental context, as well as with respect to their role in the climate system.»

The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Clean Power Plan already calls for existing power plants to trim emissions by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030, and the administration is looking to use the EPA to force further improvements in fuel efficiency in the transportation sector, among other measures.

On the other side, organizations including the Environmental Defense Fund, the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the Clean Air Task Force have argued that the new standards will offer an economic boost by encouraging investment in clean energy and efficiency, along with desperately needed action on emissions that will help address climate change and reduce health impacts from air pollution.

The scientists in environmental research laboratories, since they are not normally linked to any particular private industry, were forced to seek funds from other government departments.

These maps measure and illustrate the convergence of social vulnerability factors (such as economic standing and age, among others) and four environmental hazards: flooding, hurricane force winds, sea - level rise, and drought.

In March 2002, the Society of Environmental Journalists» board of directors formed a Freedom of Information Task Force «to address freedom - of - information, right - to - know, and other news gathering issues of concern to the pursuit of environmental journEnvironmental Journalists» board of directors formed a Freedom of Information Task Force «to address freedom - of - information, right - to - know, and other news gathering issues of concern to the pursuit of environmental journenvironmental journalism.»

Continuing to follow the path that prioritizes the fossils, together with all other environmental setbacks in force, should yield to the Brazilian government the title of «fossil of the last years» and not just today,» said Nicole Oliveira.

Pollution spiked in 2013 when California officials, at the pleading of Friends of the Earth and other environmental groups, forced the closure of the San Onofre nuclear power station.

Although sea - level rise typically is slow compared to many environmental changes, even this type of gradual sea - level rise may force other systems to cross thresholds and trigger abrupt impacts for natural or human systems unless adaptive measures are taken.

«Our actions have a big impact on what happens in these coral reef ecosystems, which are already hit hard by other forces like global warming, ocean acidification and overfishing,» said Tissot, lead author and professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at WSU Vancouver.

These deals are not so much about trade as they are about deregulation and forcing governments to pay corporations and wealthy investors for the cost of complying with environmental and other public interest safeguards.

In the video, she is defending an amendment that would force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to treat power plants that burn wood and other biomass for electricity as emitting no carbon pollution.

Not only does continued bitumen sands investment perpetuate an industry which undermines Canada's claim to be serious about Indigenous reconciliation, but giving the industry specially lax environmental treatment would force other sectors to pick up the slack, if that is even possible given the industry's relentlessly growing pollution.

Our program is designed as a force - multiplier to help in that pursuit: helping equip young learners, professional activists and other concerned citizens with tools to help spread environmental and social - change messages.

With no apparent sign of action to come, Earthjustice, the Sierra Club, the Environmental Integrity Project and other groups decided to sue the EPA to force the agency to finish the rulemaking process and to finalize public health safeguards.

The European Commission is considering whether or not to progress the enactment of a new Directive on access to environmental justice which would reinforce the Aarhus Convention of October 2001, which, though ratified by the UK and other European states, does not in itself have the force of law internally within those states.

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Walton says the new penalties are in line with the Environmental Enforcement Act that came into force four years ago, which amended other pieces of legislation.

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Others in the group include Julie Daniluk, host of The Healthy Gourmet; social entrepreneur Kelly Drennan, who is dedicated to greening the fashion industry; Rob Grand, owner of Canada's largest green lifestyle retailer, Grassroots Environmental Products; Ryan Wiseman, who has been active in the green / environment movement for 15 years; and Wayne Roberts, who manages the Toronto Food Policy and is a member of Toronto's Environmental Task Force.