Sentences with phrase «than previous estimates»

There's nothing average about the amount of trash the average American produces every day, which is actually twice more than previous estimates report, says a study.
That's far less than a previous estimate of 95 % of the oceans, suggesting that large areas could become marine reserves without much economic cost to fishing.
A study released today finds that global methane emissions from agriculture are much larger than previous estimates have suggested.
His results showed that levels of methane were three to four times lower than previous estimates.
They found that more than half of the 7,000 genes expressed in the liver vary in activity from one layer to another, a number that is about ten times greater than previous estimates.
The extinction rates were much higher than previous estimates based on more limited data sets.
That was slightly better than the previous estimate of 0.1 per cent growth.
This systematic approach allowed the researchers to come up with an estimate that is more realistic than previous approaches — and which also shows greater water scarcity than previous estimates.
The transition to a low - carbon energy society will require more renewable energy sources than previous estimates if current levels of energy consumption per capita and lifestyles are to be maintained.
The researchers believe that American tropical forests store around 118 billion tons of carbon, a fifth more than previous estimates.
These figures are four to sixteen times higher than previous estimates.
This paper was widely covered in the global media because it estimated a 1.5 C carbon budget that was far larger than previous estimates.
The researchers found a subtle error that, when fixed, shows that the rate at which seas warmed and rose between 1961 and 2003 was about 50 percent greater than previous estimates.
Their results, published this week in Science Advances, indicate that it's melting faster than previous estimates, particularly in areas where the ice sheet comes in direct contact with the ocean.
«Climate benefit for cutting soot, methane smaller than previous estimates
In September, a study found that recent methane emissions from livestock were 11 % higher than previous estimates suggested.
By looking at the chemistry of rocks deposited during that time period, specifically coupled carbon and sulfur isotope data, a research team led by University of California, Riverside biogeochemists reports that oxygen - free and hydrogen sulfide - rich waters extended across roughly five percent of the global ocean during this major climatic perturbation — far more than the modern ocean's 0.1 percent but much less than previous estimates for this event.
This is significantly older than previous estimates based on mtDNA, confirming recent observations from autosomal markers that brown and polar bears from a genetic point of view represent highly distinct species.
This is higher than previous estimates for the entire global population, which had previously been thought to be only between 3,920 and 7,500.
The report also includes new projections that suggest European seas are set to rise more than previous estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
The new U.S. estimate of world shale gas resources at 7,299 trillion cubic feet is 10 percent higher than a previous estimate made in 2011.
For December, it now says retail trade likely fell 1.2 per cent, deeper than the previous estimate of just a 0.7 per cent contraction.
That corresponds to 10 to 20 percent more Neandertal ancestry than previous estimates — and it may carry consequences for human...
Based on data through April 7, 2013, the latest orbital plot places the comet's closest approach to Mars slightly closer than previous estimates, at about 68,000 miles (110,000 kilometers).
Our independent proxy estimates indicate that Arctic temperatures during the Pliocene were considerably warmer than previous estimates derived from empirical proxies (Ballantyne et al., 2006; Elias and Matthews, 2002) and climate model simulations (Haywood et al., 2009), despite estimates of Pliocene atmospheric CO2 levels that are comparable to today (Pagani et al., 2010).
Among other findings, that study found that the varroa mite is far more abundant than previous estimates indicate and is closely linked to several damaging viruses.
Facebook also says the number of users affected by the leak of data to Cambridge Analytica may have been bigger than previous estimates suggested.
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The researchers» new estimate is much more precise than previous estimates, which were based on observations of faraway stars.
The team recalculated the expected lifetime of Chariklo's rings based on their results and found it to be only 1 to 100 years, much shorter than previous estimates.
The team's simulations estimate this slowdown effect results in a practical upper limit of 1 megawatt per square kilometer that can be generated — far less than previous estimates not accounting for the effect.
In its revised guidance Monday, Lululemon said it now expects its revenue and profit for the fourth quarter ending Feb. 2 will be significantly lower than its previous estimate before Christmas.
This new size estimate, published in the journal Nature, suggests an Imbrium impactor that was two times larger in diameter and 10 times more massive than previous estimates.
BEARS ON ICE A study that put camera collars on polar bears showed that the bears have higher springtime metabolic rates than previous estimates.
This is a more precise figure than previous estimates, which placed the solar nebula's lifetime at somewhere between 1 and 10 million years.
«It was warmer than previous estimates [for the mid-Pliocene Arctic], but it seemed to make more sense,» says Ballantyne, now a climate scientist at University of Montana in Missoula.
A new genetic study has revealed that the Antarctic minke whale may have been much more abundant before whaling began than previous estimates suggest.
Global methane and ethane emissions from oil production from 1980 to 2012 were far higher than previous estimates show, according to a new study which for the first time takes into account different production management systems and geological conditions around the world.
From 2000 - 2013 China produced 2.9 gigatonnes less carbon than previous estimates of its cumulative emissions.
«Subduction zone earthquakes off Oregon, Washington more frequent than previous estimates
Using gene expression profile (GEP) tests like Oncotype DX to inform treatment decision - making for breast cancer is likely to be less cost - effective in community oncology practice than previous estimates had suggested, according to an economic simulation analysis published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
«The extraordinarily young age of this lunar sample either means that the Moon solidified significantly later than previous estimates, or that we need to change our entire understanding of the Moon's geochemical history,» Carlson said.
While that sounds like a lot, it's close to 25 pounds less per person than the previous estimate, which was around 100 pounds per year, according to The New York Times.
In what's described as the broadest look at childhood obesity to date, a study shows that 40 percent of Arkansas students are overweight, suggesting that the problem may be worse nationally than previous estimates indicated.
Ottawa also adjusted its deficit forecast for 2015 - 16 — a shortfall is now projected to be $ 2.3 billion rather than the previous estimate of $ 3 billion.
He started with a 2014 independent survey commissioned by PLC that found that there are a total of 88.5 million pet dogs in the U.S., which is significantly more than previous estimates offered by other industry organizations.
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