Sentences with phrase «shifting migration patterns»

In the latest 161 - page document, dated March 9, EPA officials include several new studies highlighting how a warming planet is likely to mean more intense U.S. heat waves and hurricanes, shifting migration patterns for plants and wildlife, and the possibility of up to a foot of global sea level rise in the next century.

The storks are just one of many species shifting their migration patterns because of human behavior.

Not exact matches

If it goes on long enough, the next wave of new home buyers may not remember the bursting of the last bubble, and migration patterns may shift again.

Shifts in rainfall patterns and shorelines will contribute to mass migrations on a scale never before seen

As self - adornment, the clothes we wear mark currents in personal and collective identification, patterns of movement and migration and socio - political affiliation; as commodities, they speak of shifting systems of labour, production and global distribution.

These include everything from reduction in sea ice (with the Arctic preceding the Antarctic by several decades), rising ocean heat content, melting permafrost, species migration, cooling stratosphere, weather pattern shifts, etc..

The report says global climate change is projected to produce «insufficient water supplies, shifting rainfall patterns, disruptions to agriculture, human migrations, more failing states, increased extremism, and even resource wars,» all of which pose an urgent threat that must be addressed in national security policy.