Sentences with phrase «pressures of a changing climate»

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The reef is already facing pressures from climate change, land - based pollution and crown - of - thorns starfish outbreaks.

The involvement of other jurisdictions, he said, might, «see adequate pressure applied to these companies to inspire action on climate change.»

If the federal government required projected climate conditions to be considered when spending on infrastructure in flood - prone areas, construction practices would change, he added, noting the same pressures would drive chemical plants or other industries to have a wider margin of safety.

He said the risk applied equally to companies, especially those that have been in denial about climate change risk to their business, and investors, some of which had been pressuring companies to lift their game on carbon risk disclosure but still had a long way to go themselves.

A combination of climate change (which has significantly shortened the cycles of drought), massive migration to the cities and market pressures to grow cash crops that require huge amounts of water have depleted India's already taxed water supply for rural areas.

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With global demand for tea growing at more than 2 % per year, the pressures on land for cultivating the crop will increase, all the more intensely because of climate change.

The combined pressures of climate change and epidemics sweeping through intensive animal agriculture such as H5N2 avian flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are growing challenges for industrial agriculture, and workers organizing to demand fair pay and conditions combined with increasing consumer pressure for greater transparency and better treatment of land, animals, and workers, are having an effect.

«Landscape - scale management, natural capital and ecosystem services initiatives are becoming increasingly important in light of increasing pressure on the UK's natural environment from development, population growth and climate change.

Given the effects of climate change, and a less «ice - bound» Arctic, new problems and pressures have arisen.

When informed about Tom Steyer — a retired billionaire investor who plans to spend $ 100 million during the 2014 elections to pressure lawmakers to act on climate change — Teachout said that his money would be better spent on addressing the root causes of our government's failure to address climate change.

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Still, it is undeniable that a variety of 21st - century forces — a new generation in the military, a change in climate at the top levels of the Pentagon, pressure on the president from a critical interest group, even Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand's anticipated Democratic primary battle in New York — converged to begin repeal of a 1993 law that has led to the discharge of more than 13,000 gay men and lesbians, including desperately needed Arabic translators.

«Higher temperatures and changes in precipitation result in pressure on yields from important crops in much of the world,» says IFPRI agricultural economist Gerald Nelson, an author of the report, «Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security: Impacts and Costs of Adaptation to 2050».

Now a new analysis is estimating the pace of species movement because of both climate change and land use, revealing new pressures that stem from local decisions to build, plant and cut on the warming landscape.

Through climate change, habitat loss, poaching and other pressures, six of the eight living bear species are listed as «vulnerable.»

«By rushing to respond to climate change at different speed, the pressure to respond to each other lessens,» explains Päivi Sirkiä, researcher at the Finnish Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study at the University of Helsinki

«We need a planning process that is equal to the scale and complexity of the challenge, rather than continuing to depend on piecemeal efforts that put wildlife species and human communities at higher risk in the face of global pressures like climate change and a race for resources.»

Once opened up, formerly intact forests become increasingly susceptible to natural pressures such as disease, fires, and erosion; they become less resilient to human - made climate change, and they become more accessible to human use, driving a spiral of decline.

The government said run - off from farms, crown - of - thorns starfish and climate change remain the biggest threats to the reef, but acknowledged that shipping and dredging occur in reef areas already facing pressure from other impacts.

Widening of the tropics would also probably be associated with poleward movement of major extratropical climate zones due to changes in the position of jet streams, storm tracks, mean position of high and low pressure systems, and associated precipitation regimes.

We have recently been investigating our choice of cropping given the changing weather and climatic patterns, and we are also assessing how better water management may alleviate the pressures of climate change.

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.

«The concept of planetary health offers a new way of thinking about the health of our planet and its resilience in the face of pressures like climate change, urbanization and globalization, to name just a few,» said Helen Clark, administrator of the U.N. Development Programme, by video statement.

Engaging with all facets and users of water will alleviate pressures and the risks from dependencies, even more so under the impacts of climate change, but it requires initial investment.

Given the large number of water users, the growing demand for water resources, the variety of stakeholders involved and the increasing intensity of climate change impacts, collective action and shared solutions are needed to alleviate the pressure on the environment, business and communities.

Until recently, says Baker, the goal for coral - reef management was simply to create marine reserves and reduce the pressures of pollution and fishing, hoping that that would leave reefs strong enough to deal with climate change.

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Thus, «giant chunks of space debris clobbering the planet and wiping out life on Earth has undeniably broad appeal,» Meltzer says, whereas «no one in Hollywood makes movies» about more nuanced explanations, such as Clovis points disappearing because early Americans turned to other forms of stone tool technology as the large mammals they were hunting went extinct as a result of the changing climate or hunting pressure.

These cyclones are characterized by strong localized drops in sea level pressure, and as Arctic - wide decreases in sea level pressure are one of the expected results of climate change, this could increase extreme Arctic cyclone activity, including powerful storms in the spring and fall.

Worldwide, 1 in 5 plants is already on the brink of extinction and climate change is only expected to add pressure on species struggling to survive.

Petrov examined historical data going back to 1969 and determined that there are ongoing changes in the distribution and migration patterns of the wild reindeer due to climate change and human pressure.

Collects data on salinity, temperature, and pressure — fundamental data on all types of environmental change, from varying weather conditions to climate variations.

The species would be assessed to identify which are suffering as a result of various extinction pressures: agricultural expansion and / or intensification; habitat changes; and climate change, among others.

Lead researcher Dr Konstantinos Chalvatzis, of UEA's Norwich Business School and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, said: «China's energy sector is under pressure to achieve a secure and affordable supply while at the same time reducing its carbon emissions.

Most indicators of the state of biodiversity (covering species» population trends, extinction risk, habitat extent and condition, and community composition) showed declines, with no significant recent reductions in rate, whereas indicators of pressures on biodiversity (including resource consumption, invasive alien species, nitrogen pollution, overexploitation, and climate change impacts) showed increases.

But it is less clear what the role of climate change might be in the changing Atlantic pressure patterns, and so whether the flooding trends tied to them will continue.

With oil prices soaring and concerns about global warming and climate change growing, the pressure is on to find new ways of managing the current and future energy supply.

«This shift to earlier weaning age in the time leading up to woolly mammoth extinction provides compelling evidence of hunting pressure and adds to a growing body of life - history data that are inconsistent with the idea that climate changes drove the extinctions of many large ice - age mammals,» said Cherney, who is conducting the work for his doctoral dissertation in the U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

«Their knowledge of how to live in the desert is crucial to the survival of future generations of elephants in the arid habitat, and pressure from hunting and climate change may only increase in the coming decades.

Now the wild giants seem to be having trouble reproducing and face a slew of pressures: climate change, tourist harassment and habitat encroachment all threaten their future.

The draft document acknowledges climate change and other dangers, including dredging and agricultural run - off, but fails to provide effective solutions to address any of these pressures, the AAS scientists say.

A State of the Birds report published last year by government and conservation organizations warned that bird species that have been in a steady decline now face added pressure from climate change.

Building more dams «might mitigate tomorrow's climate change impacts for a certain group of people whilst putting others under pressure today», she says.

Growing population and climate change are likely to increase the pressure on already limited water resources and diet change has been suggested as one of the measures contributing to adequate food security for growing population.

According to Ruppert, the study comes at an opportune time — coral reefs are facing a number of pressures both from direct human activity, such as over-fishing, as well as from climate change.

«The reefs provided us with a unique opportunity to isolate the impact of over-fishing of sharks on reef resilience, and assess that impact in the broader context of climate change pressures threatening coral reefs,» said Ruppert.

Many fishermen here feel threatened by a sweeping new set of fishing limits imposed this spring by authorities trying to rebuild fish stocks they say are depleted by overfishing and facing pressures that include climate change.

The sea level time series is rich in physical phenomena such as tides (caused mostly by the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun), meteorological signals (high and low pressure), and signals from climate change.

If the human population continues to grow, more pressure will be put on carbon dioxide emissions — leaving future generations vulnerable to the effects of climate change.