Sentences with phrase «other land uses increase»

Some farming practices and other land uses increase the levels of methane and nitrous oxide.

Not exact matches

In many big cities, municipal land - use planning departments and other local agencies are hiring planners to help manage growth linked to population increases, burgeoning private investment and new infrastructure.

«Staff looked at all of the potential uses for the property, and there would have been no functional use of that strip of land, other than that it would have increased the size of the park,» said Commissioner Jeff Cook.

Cuomo wants to increase the Environmental Protection Fund to $ 300 million, almost doubling the current amount, to put toward farmland preservation and land conversation among other uses.

In every region, with the exception of a number of positive examples where lessons can be learned, biodiversity and nature's capacity to contribute to people are being degraded, reduced and lost due to a number of common pressures — habitat stress; overexploitation and unsustainable use of natural resources; air, land and water pollution; increasing numbers and impact of invasive alien species and climate change, among others.

On the other hand it is about productivity of agriculture and forestry with respect to demographic growth and increasing pressure in land use.

These findings can also be illustrated in other aspects of resource use: the team found the highest rate of increase in the cultivation of arable land to be in the 1950s; the peak for human - made irrigation areas then followed in the 1970s, and the peak for nitrogen fertilisers was subsequently in the 1980s.

«Increases in Common Raven distribution and abundance in the American west mirror declines in distribution and abundance of Greater Sage - Grouse, where energy transmission corridors and other land use changes have altered sagebrush steppe habitat,» said David Delehanty of ISU.

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We find that without dramatic increases in the area of forests, without substantially positive changes in land - use practices, without large net positive effects of CO2 or climate change in the future, or without some other new significant carbon storage mechanism, the U.S. carbon sink itself will decrease substantially over the 21st century.

If on the other hand we have slowing sinks and increased emissions from other potential sources (dying temperate forests and more land use changes) then its not that 2C will be guaranteed any quicker but that more then 2C will be guaranteed.

However, a close examination of the earthâ s temperature change suggests that the recent warming may be primarily due to urbanization and land - use change impact and not due to increased levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases.»

When land and other resources that would have been used for a crop (e.g., corn) are diverted to another crop (e.g., switchgrass), the price of the displaced crop will tend to increase because of the decreased supply, which will in turn tend to increase the price of any substitutes for the displaced crop, such as rice for corn.

In the meantime, it gives clear insights into what scientists see happening to the planet's climate as human industrial activities, as well as land - use changes, pump increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the air.

And there was this: «By using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land - use change,» Timothy Searchinger of Princeton and other researchers reported in 2008, «we found that corn - based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years.»

Carbon and Other Biochemical Cycles: On the headline statement in this section, Brazil insisted on nuancing the relative contribution of land - use change to the increase of CO2 concentrations, and including reference to the role of forests as sinks, with Venezuela proposing to refer to the net balance between emissions and carbon capture by land systems.

Though other human activities, like changes in land use and forest management practices, can also increase wildfire risk, the evidence increasingly points to an upward nudge from climate change too.

Increased atmospheric carbon dioxide due to massive burning of carbon - containing fossil fues: petroleum, natural gas, coal; and other causes such as changes to land use and clearing of forest;

These renewable sources, however, increase electricity prices, use more land, and have other personal impacts.

Thawing permafrost also delivers organic - rich soils to lake bottoms, where decomposition in the absence of oxygen releases additional methane.116 Extensive wildfires also release carbon that contributes to climate warming.107, 117,118 The capacity of the Yukon River Basin in Alaska and adjacent Canada to store carbon has been substantially weakened since the 1960s by the combination of warming and thawing of permafrost and by increased wildfire.119 Expansion of tall shrubs and trees into tundra makes the surface darker and rougher, increasing absorption of the sun's energy and further contributing to warming.120 This warming is likely stronger than the potential cooling effects of increased carbon dioxide uptake associated with tree and shrub expansion.121 The shorter snow - covered seasons in Alaska further increase energy absorption by the land surface, an effect only slightly offset by the reduced energy absorption of highly reflective post-fire snow - covered landscapes.121 This spectrum of changes in Alaskan and other high - latitude terrestrial ecosystems jeopardizes efforts by society to use ecosystem carbon management to offset fossil fuel emissions.94, 95,96

Moreover, so - called «sustainable» logging dramatically increases the likelihood that a forest will be entirely converted to other land uses.

Comprehensive intersectoral programs that combine measures to control deforestation and forest degradation with measures to increase agricultural productivity and sustainability will likely contribute more to reducing vulnerability of forests to climate change, land use change and other stress factors than independent sectoral initiatives.

Major Environmental Issues: Erosion resulting from inadequate flood controls and improper land use practices; irrigated soil degradation; desertification; air pollution in Buenos Aires and other major cities; water pollution in urban areas; rivers becoming polluted due to increased pesticide and fertilizer use.

The increase in greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels and from land - use changes «is unrelenting, and that, in the end, is going to dominate most of the other things that are going on» that contribute to the slowdown, he said.

The Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis (108) posits that mid-Holocene increases in CO2 and CH4 resulted from early land clearing and other agricultural practices and that these unprecedented interglacial trends in atmospheric composition set global climate on a trajectory toward warmer conditions long before human use of fossil fuels (108, 109).

They include a clear commitment to increase the 40 % target in case of linking the EU's emissions trading system (EU ETS) with other carbon markets, the way land use emissions are accounted for and the threat the existing surplus of emission allowances pose on the 2030 climate target.

This implies that if biofuels are produced on existing cropland, other production - in particular for serving the growing food demand beyond the capacities to increase yields - will be displaced to other areas («indirect land use»).

On the other hand the «mean sign of d ² CO2 / dt ² on the long term» (translation: the trend of dCO2 / dt) is expected to be positive (fossil fuel consumption / land use change still increases), and... it is.

While few developers have the funds to take advantages of this more favorable climate, they are benefiting from one common manifestation of this increased government cooperation: the willingness of many municipalities to extend development permits and other entitlements already granted for projects now stalled by current market conditions, says Brian Blaesser, a partner at Robinson & Cole LLP in Boston, where he heads the Land Use & Real Estate Development Group.