Sentences with phrase «sea change around»

But as the impacts of climate change started to hit — earlier and harder than expected — there was a profound sea change around the world.

Twenty years from now it's a country that has closed the gap in health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians, where cultural safety doesn't begin in the health system but in our homes and schools and public discourse, and where recognition of the urgency of climate change has prompted a profound sea change around the world in the way we live and do business.

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«The change in how people understand issues and perceive one another have to come first and when we have a lot of organizing and engagement around that sea change, then we're going to see policy changes occur.»

There are the obvious ways: building and constantly improving the infrastructure necessary to predict hurricanes and other extreme weather, collecting images of disasters to guide emergency response workers, and tracking sea level changes around the world that affect coastlines and the Navy.

«Our expectation is for pockets of volatility on an idiosyncratic basis around these events, rather than a wholesale sea change of volatility,» said Ben Robins, portfolio specialist at T. Rowe Price.

Dinosaur - Era Climate Change Study Suggests Reasons for Turtle Disappearance Mar. 14, 2013 — The dry, barren prairie around Alberta's Drumheller area was once a lush and subtropical forest on the shores of a large inland sea, with loads of wetlands inhabited by dinosaurs, turtles, crocodiles and small mammals.

The result, as the world now knows: an election victory for Barack Obama, a sea change in American politics and policy, and a model for online campaigners around the world.

A GOP lawmaker said this week that the rise in sea levels around the globe was not caused by climate change — but by rocks tumbling into the world's oceans and silt flowing from rivers to the sea.

However, Professor Stewart believes that over a few millennia those sea level rises could have caused the fault system beneath and around Mount Etna to completely change in behaviour, sealing up old lava flows and ultimately forcing them to emerge elsewhere on the island.

During the IOD's positive phase, sea surface temperatures rise in the Arabian Sea and fall around Indonesia, changes which reverse in the negative phasea surface temperatures rise in the Arabian Sea and fall around Indonesia, changes which reverse in the negative phaSea and fall around Indonesia, changes which reverse in the negative phase.

«It takes a long time to turn around the effects of greenhouse gases,» Scambos says, «so you don't want to wait until we're on the brink of having major changes in sea level before you address these problems.»

The low - lying island nation offers the scientists a unique opportunity to reconstruct climate conditions during previous periods of varying sea levels to help scientists better understand how future climate change will the effect the 1,000 km - long archipelago and low - lying coastal areas all around the world.

Climate conditions around Ardley Island have been generally favourable for penguins over the last 7,000 years and the team had expected the local population to show minor fluctuations in response to changes in climate or sea ice.

You might call this place ground zero in the effort to predict climate change, sea level rise, and the fate of coastal cities around the world.

With improved technologies and a reduction in sea ice around Antarctica, Hemmings, Ainley and many other experts believe its fisheries will be further threatened without policy changes.

What's left to figure out is whether this is happening with other subglacial lakes around the Greenland ice sheet, as well as whether and how to incorporate the findings into models that are aimed at gauging how much Greenland might change with the warming climate and how much water it could add to the rising seas.

The team expects relatively few alien species to survive discharge at colder ports like those around the North Sea, but caution that this could change with global warming.

Melting ice sheets could raise sea levels high enough to flood coastal areas around the globe by the end of the century, according to scientists gathering in Denmark today for a three - day climate - change conference.

Because of their dependency on coastal environments, the changes in the sea level which occurred at the end of the Jurassic period — around 145 million years ago — had a drastic impact upon the environments they lived in.

The past climates that forced these changes in ice volume and sea level were reconstructed mainly from temperature - sensitive measurements in ocean cores from around the globe, and from ice cores.

Under the Obama administration, climate change has been on the Department of Defense's radar from how it affects national security to how military installations around the world should prepare for climate impacts, like sea level rise at naval bases, melting permafrost in the Arctic and more extreme rainfall events around the world.

The Pentagon itself has described climate change as an «immediate» risk and major threat multiplier, one that could cause crops to fail, spark mass migrations and increase conflict for dwindling water resources (to say nothing of the threat sea level rise poses to U.S. naval bases around the world).

As new sea routes open and sea - level rises at increasing rates, it becomes ever clearer that amplified climate change in this remote corner of our planet will impact the lives of many around the world.

We were particularly interested in the nature of this relationship because of the hypothesized seasonal movement of krill to inshore waters around the Antarctic Peninsula in winter, rapid changes in the climate and sea ice patterns of the Antarctic peninsula [15], [16] and the known relationships between baleen whales and krill.

To understand sea - level change means understanding not only the transfer of land ice into the ocean, but also, for example, how the gravitational field of the Earth changes as inconceivably large water volumes shift around the planet.

Current changes in the ocean around Antarctica are disturbingly close to conditions 14,000 years ago that new research shows may have led to the rapid melting of Antarctic ice and an abrupt 3 - 4 metre rise in global sea level.

For many low - lying areas, scientists warn that the coming century is likely to see sea level rise that will change the shape of coastlines around the globe.

Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor.

The new findings stem from an analysis that links a widely - used framework for projecting how sea level around the world will respond to climate change to a model that accounts for recently identified processes contributing to Antarctic ice loss.

While it is often occurring in remote regions, ongoing change with the cryosphere has impacts on people all around the world: sea level rise affects coastlines globally, billions of people rely on water from snowpack, and the diminishing sea ice that covers the Arctic Ocean plays a significant role in Earth's climate and weather patterns.

Changes in the winds around Antarctica therefore change ice - concentration trends around Antarctica [8] by influencing sea - ice production and melt rates [9].

In the long term, changes in sea level were of minor importance to rainfall patterns in north western Sumatra With the end of the last Ice Age came rising temperatures and melting polar ice sheets, which were accompanied by an increase in rainfall around Indonesia and many other regions of the world..

The Climate Impact Lab's sea - level rise projections use a framework that ties together multiple threads of information to assess the probability of local sea - level changes around the world, under different future emissions scenarios.

About Blog - The Sink or Swim Project is an educational and advocacy organization focused on climate change and sea level rise in Miami and around the world Frequency - about 2 posts per month Since - Feb 2015

Controversy around a Lars von Trier film is like the changing of the seasons or the tides of the sea: it's bound to arrive eventually.

What's happening in Antarctica, how we measure irreversible climate change, and what it means for coastal cities that sea - levels all around the world will rise by 1.5 m.

Safe Is Not Enough Michael Sadowski There has been a sea change in public attitudes around gender and sexuality, yet progress on LGBTQ issues in schools has moved slowly, writes Michael Sadowski, Ed.M.»

Now, when I travel around the state, I'm noticing a true sea change.

What's happening in Antarctica, how we measure irreversible climate change, and what it means for coastal cities that sea - levels all around the wor...

If collusion is your primary response to changes in your industry, then yes, you might find yourself swaying around on the deck for a bit before gaining some digital sea legs.

Fortunately, there's been sea change in animal sheltering in the last few years, thanks largely to leadership from national organizations like HSUS and the ASPCA in developing resources around conversation - based (or «open») adoption processes and adopter - friendly policies.

This will all change, though, as they get their «sea legs» and start moving around.

PBS Changing Seas is a nationally broadcasted 27 minute show that takes an in - depth look at research and conservation projects around the world.

During the June «From Shore to Sea» lectures, National Park Service Biologist David Kushner discusses changes and trends seen after 28 years of monitoring the kelp forest ecosystems around the Channel Islands.

Significant changes in sea water temperature like those caused by El Nino events appear to have significant effects on pinniped populations around the Channel Islands.

If you are typically car sick on long journeys then you'll probably need a sedative or some plastic bags on your way to Pai - although its only 3 hours away, the drive will take you up, around and down the northern mountains, with the high above sea level changing dramatically.

The bottom or surface of the sea bed is constantly changing due to under water currents shifting and moving the sand around.

- after the remakes of Terry's Wonderland 3D and Dragon Quest Monsters 2, Yuji Horii asked the team what should be next - the choices were Caravan Heart (GBA), a professional version of Dragon Quest Monsters 2, or a brand new game - the staff made the plot together with Takeshi Uchikawa (who is currently directing Dragon Quest XI)- the suggestion was to make the theme become something catchy, which lead to a science fiction vibe - Horii said «anything's alright as long as it's interesting» - the creation of the Dragon Quest Monsters: Super Light helped build Joker 3 - fan feedback from the mobile game was used, which lead to monster stats being seen - the Reactor device lets you easily see all the things that occur on the field - the team had some trouble bringing together the ridable monsters aspect of the game, but eventually worked it out - the full game starts off with monsters that players can ride on land - you'll eventually unlock sea, air, and multi-jump land rising monsters - a «Big Air ride» was teased as well - by clearing the story, features will be unlocked that further modify monsters such as abilities and changing their sizes - Stealth Boxes which can not be found without using the Reactor only contains useful items that are optional - compulsory items that are needed to be found with the Reactor are placed in non-stealth locations - accessories can strengthen monsters, but monster strength is mainly determined from raising and combining them - features more offense - related content in the form of new spells and skills - new water - type spells are included - new skills added enable more detailed adjustments in versus, adding more strategic features - one of the items that can be bought with Communication Coins has the same effect with «Key of Encounters» - this lets players recruit monsters a bit more easily they've befriended before - since Communication Coins can only be obtained from multiplayer battles, it's completely optional - people who still do StreetPass but don't want to do multiplayer battles can still get them by combining monsters - DLC monsters are planned to be added regularly post-release until around Golden Week (April 29 — May 5)- - A national tournament is also planned, with more details coming later - carryover feature from Dragon Quest Monsters 2 that comes into play after the ending - players can bring up to 10 monsters which are ranked A or below from DQM2 to DQMJ3 each day

Songs that change wind direction and to warp around the sea map will aid you very well as you make progress.

This underlying theme is particularly timely given the growing impact of climate change on sea levels around the globe and the potentially catastrophic results.