Sentences with phrase «serious damage to infrastructure»

Knotweed can pierce tarmac and even concrete, causing serious damage to infrastructure (Image: blickwinkel / Alamy)

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Hurricane Maria delivered a serious body blow to the Puerto Rican economy by severely damaging much of the island's infrastructure.

Neutrino and dark matter experiments in a former iron mine in Minnesota appear to have escaped serious harm from a fire, but damage to laboratory infrastructure means it will take at least a few more weeks to get them running again.

They destroy agricultural assets and infrastructure, causing serious damage to the livelihoods and food security of millions of vulnerable people.

Serious, imminent, and irreversible damages to natural ecosystems, infrastructure, agricultural production, and human health make dramatic reduction of greenhouse gas emissions a key priority for communities around the world.

In 2007, the Nobel Prize - winning U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted serious risks and damages to livelihoods, human infrastructure, societies, species, and ecosystems unless future warming is reduced.

Hydroelectric dams have caused great damage to indigenous and traditional communities and the environment, but they are only one of many serious Amazon threats — new roads, railways, waterways, mines and other infrastructure all result in great destruction.