Sentences with phrase «term water stress»

Utilities with carbon intensive power plants contribute to long - term water stress by exacerbating climate change.

Moderate - term water stresses and associated changes in some photosynthetic parameters in cotton

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Because whether or not to sleep train can be such a fraught decision for new parents, I wanted to share my sleep training story, and to explain why, given everything we know about stress, the argument that sleep training causes long - term harm doesn't hold water.

Professor Don Levitan, chair of the Department of Biological Science, writes in the latest issue of Marine Ecology Progress Series that bleaching — a process where high water temperatures or UV light stresses the coral to the point where it loses its symbiotic algal partner that provides the coral with color — is also affecting the long - term fertility of the coral.

The researchers believe that while there are some economic, cultural and social factors that may make certain of the «soft path» measures such as population control difficult, the «soft path» measures offer the more realistic path forward in terms of reducing water stress.

«In terms of both carbon acquisition and water - stress risk, the buck stops at the leaf - level,» explains researcher Alana R. O. Chin, of American River College and Humboldt State University.

«There is a definite need to study the health effects of fracking accounting for the short - term changes in air quality, the possible long - term changes in water quality and the associations with stress.»

As a result, the scientists concluded, humic substances demonstrated the potential to mitigate severe or mild water stress in the short term and promote plant growth under moderate mid-term stress.

Fundamentally the short term fast that don't include water, you have a pretty immediate reduction in cognitive ability, the mention of stress loads, the ability to recount numbers.

This soothing gel mask is packed with healing mineral water and a propietary Biogen technology that relieves tension and stress on contact, while giving skin a dose of long - term hydration.

While negative reinforcement such as a squirt of water or a «time out» can be somewhat effective in the short term, they can increase stress and damage the relationship between the two of you.

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Accelerated forest thinning to reduce water stress and wildfire risk is one of the only management options under our control, and it is probably the most critical to apply over the short term.

As the event developed, water temperatures rose across the basin to levels well above normal (i.e., long - term average condition, Figure 2A) and remained above normal for more than 7 months, resulting in especially severe thermal stress at the northern end of the Lesser Antilles (Figures 1A, S1, S2).

Long - term CO2 enrichment studies confirm the findings of shorter - term experiments, demonstrating numerous growth - enhancing, water - conserving, and stress - alleviating effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on plants growing in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Altogether, therefore, common sense suggests that with the plant productivity gains that result from the aerial fertilization effect of the ongoing rise in atmospheric CO2, plus its transpiration - reducing effect that boosts plant water use efficiency, along with its stress - alleviating effect that lessens the negative growth impacts of resource limitations and environmental constraints, the world's vegetation possesses an ideal set of abilities to reap a tremendous benefit from what the President inaccurately terms «carbon pollution» in the years and decades to come.

More mainstream scientists, while stating that CO2 fertilization is real, are much less certain about the long - term effects, saying that the heat and water stress associated with climate change seem to be making forests vulnerable to insect attack, fires and many other problems.

Additionally, around two - thirds of the world's largest global corporations are exposed to water risk, especially in terms of water security and stress, with 405 companies reporting total losses due to water scarcity of more than $ 2.5 billion in 2015.