Sentences with phrase «other environmental threats in»

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Other research in political psychology suggests that the no campaign has had a much easier job — those inclined to political conservatism are more likely to have a «negativity bias» in their response to environmental stimuli — conservatives have more of a physiological reaction to potential threats in the environment and subsequently devote more psychological resources towards dealing with them: conservatives, quite literately, see more things that could go wrong than liberals.

Meanwhile, parrot expert Michael Parr of the American Bird Conservancy in The Plains, Virginia, worries that environmental threats may close the window on other new finds.

There is also a logistical side to Orazi's work: some of his most important work occurs outside the lab, because the instruments he develops have to work in the field, where they are exposed to heat and other environmental threats.

This effect on some genes may be a result of the buffering effect of living in a complex, interdependent society, where the «collective genome» is less vulnerable to dramatic environmental changes or other external threats, Robinson said.

Researchers have identified gamba grass and other invasive weeds as a potential threat to landholder involvement in environmental offset programs such as the Carbon Farming Initiative.

The Geospatial Technologies Project, established ten years ago, had previously assessed satellite images of damaged Syrian World Heritage sites, the destruction of communities in Zimbabwe, industrial gas flaring in Nigeria, and an array of other human rights and environmental threats.

Havran, MacLeod and their colleagues also hope to learn further details of the molecular cross-talk between DETCs and keratinocytes, as well as the role of DETCs in protecting against other environmental threats, such as the ultraviolet radiation that causes sunburn and skin cancers.

«This vulnerability concept requires the determination of the major threats to local and regional water, food, energy, human health, and ecosystem function resources from extreme events including climate, but also from other social and environmental issues,» he said in a book chapter he co-authored in «Extreme Events and Natural Hazards: The Complexity Perspective» earlier this year.

But he is convinced that we are not thinking the problem through correctly and are, in fact, lost in a kind of green fog about how best to deal with global warming and other major environmental threats.

«Fish have a limited number of resources to respond to an illness so their immune system makes choices — when they're infected by sea lice, for example, the fish's immune system is suddenly geared to respond to that specific threat, leaving them totally exposed to other threats like P. salmonis,» said Dixon, a Canada Research Chair in Fish and Environmental Immunology.

The reflex to stand your ground or run away has been shaped by hundreds of thousands of years of evolution, in response to predators and other environmental threats.

Perhaps this «Conference on Planetary Emergencies» will result in something other than yet another extensive production of rhetorical flourishes and other forms of ever so lyrical «chin music» that we have heard for so long and come to see as nothing more than a litany of unending substitutes for what is needed in our time: action on the real threats to human and environmental health.

As with other environmental hazards, from earthquakes to storms, any societal impact will always be a function of the severity and frequency of the danger (in this case periods of high heat), the number of people exposed and their capacity to withstand the threat.

Once settled in at my new journalistic home, ProPublica, I plan on digging in further on this and other instances in which the main factors exacerbating environmental threats are policies and practices that can be changed promptly, even as the grand challenge of limiting global warming is pursued.

Carbon removal techniques, while important for fighting climate change, have faced resistance from some in the environmental community partly because they have been perceived as a threat to the deployment of other climate change mitigation techniques.

When life on Earth ends, however, no one will know what caused it — the cause could have been ANY of the MANY environmental threats we were told were going to end life on Earth as we knew it, starting in the 1960s with DDT... then other pesticides, acid rain, hole in the ozone layer, global warming, global cooling, climate change, etc..

However, the question is whether the large time and human resources that are used to create these climate model runs could be more effectively used for other scenario methodologies [which would be much less costly] and, even more importantly, in developing responses to climate (and other environmental threats) so as to reduce the risks we face.

Unlike some other environmental controversies that have been brought to and kept in the public eye due primarily to the efforts of environmental organizations, mainstream scientific organizations have been the institutions articulating the nature of the climate change threat.

CFACT Truth Squad member Paul Driessen, in a piece entitled, «Triple Threat: UN, EPA and Congress,» warns that even without Kyoto - imposed CO2 reductions, the federal Environmental Protection Agency's proposed regulations of CO2 and other emissions, and the Interior Department's use of the Endangered Species Act to lock up millions of acres of forest and oil and natural gas reserves, can accomplish much the same thing as the climate alarmists attempted at Copenhagen, Cancun, Doha, and other climate conferences.

We discuss the adoption of a bottom - up, resource - based vulnerability approach in evaluating the effect of climate and other environmental and societal threats to societally critical resources.

The two teens will also briefly discuss other broader environmental threats and ideas on the future of the sustainability movement and how youth typically get involved in environmental advocacy.

The tar sands in Canada are an environmental disaster in other ways, but the incremental emissions of greenhouse gases are small compared to the far greater threat of massive coal expansion in China, or potential fugitive emission of methane from fracking, or massive deforestation in Indonesia and Latin America, or any number of other major sources of greenhouse gases.

Sponsored by three activist groups — Oil Change International, Environmental Action, and The Other 98 % — the 30 - second ad was part of a crowd - funded campaign to point out the fatal flaw in ExxonMobil's business model to maximize oil and gas extraction across the globe regardless of the growing threat to the stability of Earth's climate system and thus the livability of the planet for our children, their children, and future generations.

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

The menace of an oil spill from new Texas - bound tankers has nature - loving British Columbians rising up in opposition to expanded ocean traffic along the coast, that, amongst other environmental threats, endangers the killer whale population, the iconic Orcas.