Sentences with phrase «rapidly accelerating change»

Thomas Friedman says we're in a period of rapidly accelerating change and he suggests we adopt a «Mother Nature» strategy of resilience.

In a world of rapidly accelerating change, where technology threatens to remake almost every aspect of every company in every industry, how do large corporations, built for predictability and stability, adapt and innovate fast enough to survive and thrive?

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The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have agreed to a step - change in their partnership to accelerate delivery on the rapidly growing needs of the African rice sector, in particular, and the Sustainable Development Goals, in general.

Conditions in the Arctic, where several environmental records were broken this year, are slipping rapidly from bad to worse as the pace of climate change accelerates in that region

Researchers have long assumed that these dramatic transitions resulted in a sort of accelerated evolution in which genes for traits such as skin color and stature changed rapidly to allow humans to survive in their new habitats.

That's likely to change rapidly with the creation of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, a $ 125 million contribution to Johns Hopkins for immunotherapy by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and other philanthropists, and President Obama's «moonshots» effort to accelerate research.

DOE's Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project is focused on how global water cycles, water resources, biogeochemical cycles, and rapidly changing ice or snow interact with climate systems and climate change.

Here, they found hundreds of genomic changes, indicating that the rate of genetic divergence accelerated rapidly after the initial changes took hold.

The Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice) and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have agreed to a step - change in their partnership to accelerate delivery on the rapidly growing needs of the African rice sector, in particular, and the Sustainable Development Goals, in general.

It is of interest to scientists because it is changing rapidly; it is thinning, accelerating and receding3, all of which contribute directly to sea level, and its future under a warming climate is uncertain.

By monitoring the rate of change of accelerator pedal position the TCM can determine whether the driver rapidly accelerates and decelerates and therefore is driving in a sporty fashion.

Either way, it's hard to imagine the pace of change in the industry will rapidly accelerate..

This is the first evidence of the long - feared positive feedbacks that could rapidly accelerate the rate of climate change, pushing impacts to the extreme end of the scale.

Today the pace of change is accelerating even faster as the private sector is bringing new innovations more rapidly than ever before and these innovations are fundamentally reshaping the way we move around cities.

«But with the rapidly accelerating rates at which the ice is melting, and in the light of all the other, well - publicized lines of evidence, most scientists would be hard pressed to find mechanisms that do not include human - made climate change,» he added.

The Great Transition, written by EPI's research team — Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, J. Matthew Roney, and Emily E. Adams — focuses on a rapidly evolving global movement toward cleaner sources of energy, driven by policy, economics, and the hard realities of accelerating climate change.

And as a rapidly warming Arctic encourages more ship traffic through Canada's Northwest Passage and along other polar routes, the sooty emissions from passing freighters will significantly accelerate climate change in the region, according to a new Canadian - American study that, for the first time, predicts the potential impact of engine exhaust particles on the Arctic environment.

The strongest evidence in support of climate change is the melting of the polar ice caps, Langcake acknowledges, noting the temperature in Antarctica rose by 2.5 degrees centigrade between 1945 and 1995 and a Norwegian study supporting the idea of a rapidly accelerating melt at both poles, but claims this theory may not be borne out over a longer period.

This change is likely to be most dramatic in Arctic coastal waters, which are rapidly freshening due to the melting of ice on glaciers and permafrost (McPhee et al. 2009), accelerating OA and Ωaragonite decline relative to the rates expected from anthropogenic CO2 alone (Tank et al. 2012).

From harnessing new technologies, to minimizing costs through alternate workspace arrangements and law firm structures, and expanding a firm's online presence through social media and other avenues of client engagement and management, the practice of law is rapidly changing and as the pace of technological innovation accelerates the legal world will have to continue evolving to keep up.

What will change is our ability to grow even faster, to develop technology more rapidly, to accelerate our ability to provide solutions that meet the increasingly sophisticated needs of advertisers and digital audiences.