Sentences with phrase «over recent decades remains»
Over recent decades the remaining Amazon forest has acted as a vast «carbon sink» — absorbing more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases — helping to put a brake on the rate of climate change.
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Connecticut home prices — struggling to recover from the last recession — squeezed out a modest, year - over year gain in 2017 but still remain well below the most recent peak a decade a ago, a new report Tuesday shows.
Growth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two decades.
Fixed lending rates on housing and business loans have also risen over recent months in response to higher bond yields, although they too remain below the average of the past decade.
Over recent decades and across the globe women have surpassed men in college enrollment and degree attainment yet women remain underrepresented in physical, engineering, mathematics and computer sciences (PEMC).
Over all, incidents like the Disney attack remain very rare despite Florida's growth in recent decades.
Some highlights: Over part of the past year, the Pacific was in its cyclical cool phase, called La Niña; the Arctic remained far warmer than usual for recent decades.
The Indian Ocean seems to lack records of any alarming sea - level rise in recent decades; on the contrary, 10 sites analyzed indicate a sea level remaining at about ± 0.0, at least over the last 50 years or so.
Regarding clouds, recent trends suggest a slight decline in total cloud cover over several decades, due to a reduction in low clouds, which exert a net cooling influence, while high cirrus clouds, which are net warmers, have remained relatively constant.