Sentences with phrase «percent global decrease»

«I think that the 40 percent global decrease that they report is provocative but not yet fully demonstrated,» says Michael Behrenfeld, an oceanographer at Oregon State University who studies phytoplankton.

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Ever since scientists generated the first global model of Earth's magnetic field nearly 180 years ago, its strength has decreased by some 10 percent.

Over the past 34 years, rainfall in Uganda has decreased by about 12 percent even though many of the global climate models predict an increase in rainfall for the area, according to an international team of researchers.

Global climate models find that rainfall in northeast Brazil is expected to decrease in the coming decades, and some rivers could see flows reduced by 60 to 70 percent, he said.

PCC's efforts are just one example of efforts to attain a global goal set 15 years ago, when world leaders committed themselves to decreasing the maternal death rate by 75 percent from 1990 to 2015.

Under one scenario, the researchers projected that global food production could fall by 15 percent, but when they accounted for large emissions decreases, that figure shrank to a 9 percent drop in food production.

Chronic water stress could potentially reduce the carbon sink of deciduous forests in the U.S. by as much as 17 percent in coming decades, leading to a decrease in carbon capture that translates to an additional one to three days of global carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning each year, according to the paper, «Chronic water stress reduces tree growth and the carbon sink of deciduous hardwood forests.»

Soccer's global governing body, FIFA, has found that a dynamic, movement - focused warmup of similar duration (they call their 20 - minute warmup for youth players «11 +») decreases overall injury rate by 48 percent and serious injuries by 74 percent.

While the overall number of global tablet shipments saw a decrease, preliminary data shows that the Microsoft Surface and iPad Pro experienced more than 2.9 percent year - over-year growth.

Since the development of the first FeLV vaccine, coupled with better management measures (and an increased understanding of virus transmission), global rates of FeLV - related lymphoma have decreased from 70 percent to 15 percent.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

In all, the UBC researchers found that global fisheries could lose approximately $ 10 billion in annual revenue by 2050 if climate change continues unchecked — a 10 percent decrease, which is 35 percent more than has been previously estimated.

Fifth, implementing emission reduction mandates and targets under each New England state's global warming solutions laws will likely cause economy - wide natural gas use to decrease by 20 percent by 2030, despite recent policies and trends that incentivize fuel - switching to natural gas.

They found that cereal harvests decreased due to both droughts and extreme heat, and production levels in North America, Europe and Australasia dropped by an average of 19.9 percent from droughts alone — roughly double the global average.

According to long term scenarios, hydropower's share in global electricity supply may decrease to 10 to 14 percent.

«We've had about a 25 percent decrease in the number of air samples measured from the global cooperative network,» Dlugokencky told Live Science.

Even though the number of climate change believers has decreased, the majority of people still believed that the Earth is undergoing global warming and most of them (61 percent of Americans and 57 percent of Canadians) felt it was a «very serious» problem.

A simple linear fit model suggests that an increase in global cloud cover of 1 percent corresponds to a global temperature decrease of about 0.07 oC.

According to the IPCC report, each degree of warming is projected to decrease renewable water resources by at least 20 percent for an additional 7 percent of the global population.

However, only 4 percent of official development assistance to developing regions is actually allocated for agriculture, an astonishing decrease from 12 percent in 1990, considering the growth in global populations and a rising demand for crops.

By investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency, states can reduce their coal imports, protect consumers, improve public health, and decrease the global warming emissions from coal - fired power plants, which currently account for 80 percent of all the carbon emissions produced from power generation.

Following a substantial decrease in U.S. travelers planning to spend their holiday in Paris last year, the City of Light projects a 16.3 percent increase in U.S. visitors for the 2017 season, according to part two of Allianz Global Assistance's Top 10 Holiday Destinations Report.

Allianz Global Assistance reviewed more than 760,000 Americans» travel plans during the peak holiday travel season, Thanksgiving through New Year's, and found that while Paris saw a significant decrease in American travelers during last year's holiday season (down 12.8 percent from 2015), the city has risen for 2017 and remains as the second most popular European destination.

In 2015 the life insurance industry posted a 7.3 percent increase in net income after taxes despite continued low interest rates and soft equity markets that resulted in a $ 2.2 billion decrease in capital gains, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Global commercial investments have also slowed, which in the first quarter of 2017 decreased nearly 20 percent year - over-year; however, certain U.S. markets are seeing good global cash flow with $ 76 billion flowing to the U.S. «International buyers are likely to play a greater role in the U.S. market thisGlobal commercial investments have also slowed, which in the first quarter of 2017 decreased nearly 20 percent year - over-year; however, certain U.S. markets are seeing good global cash flow with $ 76 billion flowing to the U.S. «International buyers are likely to play a greater role in the U.S. market thisglobal cash flow with $ 76 billion flowing to the U.S. «International buyers are likely to play a greater role in the U.S. market this year.

57 percent of respondents expect assignment activity to increase, 37 percent expect it to stay about the same, and 6 percent of firms surveyed envision decreasing their number of global transferees.