Sentences with phrase «scarce as population»

FBI Agent Fred Stephens explains that food and water will become scarcer as the population grows, increasing the cost.

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Water usage is definitely going to be critical going forward as the population continues to grow and the resources becoming scarce.

The National Association of Retail Grocers of Australia recently highlighted that Australia's food and grocery industry is «at a crossroads» as population - driven demand grows faster than food production, pointing to challenges ahead for sustainable development.1 Water is one of the most significant and increasingly scarce resources that producers need to meet this demand.

That sounds like something of an understatement for those in the business community, especially for many who live and work upstate, where property taxes as an overall percentage of home values are out of whack, the population is shrinking and graying and the jobs are scarce.

The shrinking island would have downsized the mammoth population, too, as resources grew scarce.

The fisheries are an important source of finance, protein and cultural identity, but information can be scarce on their status — despite often being listed as one of the major threats to turtle populations.

But when the land becomes parched and grass scarce, the populations get pushed into smaller and smaller areas, becoming more packed as desirable pasture diminishes, he says.

Non-state actors are already weaponizing water to control local populations, either through diverting scarce water sources or — as the Islamic State group did when it seized the Mosul Dam in Iraq and threatened to demolish it — by gaining the leverage to devastate downstream population centers.

«By taking into account the large amount of data presented and the scarce information available up to date, we are convinced that it will open a new perspective in the research of mitochondrial DNA - related diseases, as well as in population studies, and evolutionary and forensic field,» concludes research director Maria Pilar Aluja.

Moreover, the 2.3 billion people likely to be added to the human population by 2050 will undermine those systems much more seriously than did the previous 2.3 billion, as each additional person will, on average, have to be supported by scarcer, lower - quality resources imposing ever greater environmental costs.

As disease ravaged the indigenous population and resources became scarce, a series of violent conflicts arose between tribes, settlers, and the government that scarred the continent.

While the global economy has been shaky over the last few years, I can't imagine scarce resources not becoming more valuable over time as they continue to become more and more rare and as the global population continues to rise and countries needing more basic materials to build, expand or consume energy.

As with most other medical and behavioral challenges we manage in animal populations, prevention of feline heartworm disease is easier, cheaper and more humane than awaiting the development of disease and trying to create a treatment plan in a resource - scarce environment.

He went on to describe ground zero in the oil rush, the town of Titusville, «with its busy population of six thousand, where but a few years since it scarce numbered as many hundred.»

«Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) are critically endangered and the majority of hawksbill habitat use and movement research to date has been centred in the Wider Caribbean and Indo - Paciï ¬ c regions... As recently as 2007, hawksbills were considered functionally extirpated in the eastern Paciï ¬ c Ocean, based on scarce reports of their presence and the sparse coral reef distribution in the region... This study represents the ï ¬ rst initiative to track individuals from this remnant hawksbill population and describes novel habitat use that will inform regional conservation efforts.&raquAs recently as 2007, hawksbills were considered functionally extirpated in the eastern Paciï ¬ c Ocean, based on scarce reports of their presence and the sparse coral reef distribution in the region... This study represents the ï ¬ rst initiative to track individuals from this remnant hawksbill population and describes novel habitat use that will inform regional conservation efforts.&raquas 2007, hawksbills were considered functionally extirpated in the eastern Paciï ¬ c Ocean, based on scarce reports of their presence and the sparse coral reef distribution in the region... This study represents the ï ¬ rst initiative to track individuals from this remnant hawksbill population and describes novel habitat use that will inform regional conservation efforts.»

Fresh water is becoming a scarce resource in the United States and across the globe as demand continues to rise due to population and business growth.

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17

It sees the need for more formal property rights to exist only as populations increase and land becomes scarce.

In fact, as the human population keeps snowballing into unsustainable figures, real estate will only be more scarce and in greater demand.