Sentences with phrase «other environmental pressures»

The series was conceived by Cabral as a way to highlight the plight of elephants, apes, tigers, pandas, lions, wolves and other animals that are currently being threatened by habitat loss, poaching, and other environmental pressures brought on by human greed, encroachment and massive climate change.

Individual colleges and universities around the globe have been at the forefront of addressing climate change and other environmental pressures.

«This suggests that some other environmental pressure — possibly drought - caused these plants to evolve this way, and it happened to work really well for freezing tolerance too,» said co-author Amy Zanne at the George Washington University.

Misleading claims about shale gas development serve dogma but not the public interest by Paul Driessen The Sierra Club and other environmental pressure groups are redoubling their efforts to «stop fracking in its tracks.»

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its allied organizations — Indigenous Environmental Network, Honor the Earth, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, BankTrack.org, and others — have mounted pressure on the financiers to withdraw their pipeline investments.

There is pressure to ease restrictions and, thus, the well - known race to the bottom in terms of environmental protection and other standards.

Anxiety arising from unpredictable expectations, pressure, intimidation, variable environmental conditions, and other failings in teaching methodologies is not recovered later by relaxing or hanging out.

Pan: Per capita, they are still obviously way behind the United States and other industrial nations and there is this argument that the United States and the West, you know, they went through their industrial revolutions and we need to go through ours, but still that ignores the argument that the others, the lessons learnt, you know, China should be able to take a different path and there is a budding environmental movement right now in China, trying to put pressure on the government to do something about this, but again, you know, these officials are addicted to economic growth.

Meanwhile, existing coal - fired power plants, many of which date to the 1970s or earlier, will continue to face pressure to close as other environmental regulations target conventional coal pollutants like nitrogen oxides, mercury and particulate matter.

The best explanation for this turnover is that whenever environmental pressure increased dramatically, certain fauna went extinct while others evolved into new forms.

Particularly in Africa and the Middle East, high fertility rates are leading to profound local environmental pressures - water stress, land degradation, over-hunting and fishing, falling farm sizes, deforestation and other habitat destruction - thereby worsening the grave economic challenges these countries face.

Others, like Tom Burke, founding director of U.K. - based environmental group E3G, dismissed the Nature piece as «an ivory - tower view of life» that focuses on what is being said in academic literature rather than what is happening on the ground as countries slowly but surely buckle to international pressure to take on climate responsibly.

Waring says his «ingredients» for growing environmental cooperation include «a population of tight - knit groups, under high pressure to preserve resources, who have the power to manage them, and who learn from each other's successes and failures.»

Responding to increased expectations from consumers and pressure from environmental organizations, among other motivations, hundreds of corporations have made public promises to help end deforestation.

The current major global challenges in attaining food and nutrition security are compounded by pressures of growing populations, climate and other environmental change, and economic inequity and instability.

Some migraine sufferers are able to identify dietary or environmental factors that trigger an attack, such as sensitivity to dietary histamines, sulfates or sulfites, monosodium glutamate (MSG), other additives and preservatives, or changes in barometric pressure.

Although both scientists and lay people alike may frequently identify a single dietary element as the cause of chronic disease (eg, saturated fat causes heart disease and salt causes high blood pressure), evidence gleaned over the past 3 decades now indicates that virtually all so - called diseases of civilization have multifactorial dietary elements that underlie their etiology, along with other environmental agents and genetic susceptibility.

Applicable risks and uncertainties include, among others, regulatory actions and timing of any new product launches; competitive pressures, environmental trends and conditions; and the risks identified under the heading «Risk Factors» in our Annual Report on Form 10 - K for 2012, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 28, 2013, as well as the other information we file with the SEC.

The move followed intensifying pressure from Greenpeace and other environmental groups, which had exposed destructive practices starting with a 2010 report, «Pulping the Planet.»

Apparently, environmental Kuznets curves work in the case of cleaning up car emissions because localised pollution provokes local pressure to improve the environment, whereas CO2 emissions are generalised and so subject to the «tragedy of the commons» (I typed «tragedy of the cosmos», which would be a good title for something or other).

This manual outlines key approaches to help in assessing vulnerability to climate change in the context of other non-climatic issues and stresses such as environmental change and consumption levels, and their integration with other drivers and pressures.

As opinion polls reveal that global warming is losing traction on the public imagination, environmental pressure groups have been cranking the engine on this «other carbon dioxide problem».

By this I mean the mutually supportive network of environmental pressure groups, renewable energy companies and some public officials who keep each other well supplied with lavish funds, scare stories and green tape.

To a civilization facing lots of other pressures — internecine conflict, unchecked population growth, environmental degradation — the added burden of drought may have been enough to undermine the stability of the large Mayan cities situated in the lowlands of the Yucatan Peninsula, says Jeremy A. Sabloff, a Mayanist and the director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology.

Yet energy justice — defined here as meeting one's needs for the services that energy provides at reasonable cost, with fair and equitable access, and without disproportionate economic and environmental burdens — can mitigate the problems and pressures in other areas, especially when efficiency and solar energy are developed so as to create local jobs.

I don't disagree that a drought or some other natural (or man made) event may make a big hole in the US corn crop — that is why it is risky for the country to rely on it for any meaningful portion of its fuel --(along with environmental pressures, etc.).

And last week saw signs of the growing controversy as communities across dozens of states located on top of the cast Marcellus Shale Formation, an «unconventional natural gas reserve» across 10 states face gold - rush style leasing pressures and are reporting to the Environmental Protection Agency groundwater contamination and other consequences.

Depending on an ecosystem's composition and the other environmental factors affecting it — fishing pressure and pollution, for instance — some will likely fare better than others.

This action is in response to growing pressure from environmental organizations, animal welfare groups, and others concerned about the long - term effects of using antibiotics important for human medicine in such large quantities.

Others however are calling for a temporary closure to certain over-trafficked areas because of the environmental and resource pressures that increased tourism brings, which are exacerbating the effects of climate change in the region.

Mr. Obama had been under considerable pressure from other world leaders and environmental advocates to make the trip as a statement of American commitment to the climate change negotiations.

There are a number of factors which make managing A1C particularly difficult for teens including: Social pressures and responsibilities, motivation, personality, nutrition, substance use, sleep habits, brain re-structuring, defence mechanisms (such as denial and avoidance), social justice issues (oppresion — racism), diabetes education, individuation, future - oriented culture, access to health services, family structure and dynamic issues, marital conflict between parents, family and friendship conflict with teen, mental health stigma, academic pressure and responsibility, limited mindfulness and somatic awareness, spirituality (especially concerning death), an under - developed ability to conceptualize long - term cause and effect (this is developmentally normal for teens), co-parenting discrepencies, emotional inteligence, individuation, hormonal changes, the tendency for co-morbidity (people with diabetes can be more prone to additional physical and mental health diagnosis), and many other life / environmental stressors (poverty, grief etc.).