Sentences with phrase «threats to the environment now»

In this podcast episode, Rhea talks about the biggest threats to the environment now, and why the NRDC has never been more important.

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The loss of habitats is the greatest threat to the endangered orangutans, and now a new study says their existence could be further jeopardized if conservation efforts don't include reintroducing these great apes into natural environments with enough high - energy food for them to survive.

Frustrated by continually escalating threats to the environment and by the deafness shown by political leaders, Josh (Jesse Eisenberg, «Now You See Me») an organic farmer who lives in an agricultural cooperative in Oregon, Dena (Dakota Fanning, «The Last of Robin Hood») a young college dropout with considerable family wealth, and Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard, «Green Lantern»), an ex-Marine with expert knowledge of explosives, decide to blow up a hydroelectric dam as a protest against the desecration of the environment.

Removing a difficult student from the classroom may make the environment safer for other students, who now have less to fear from threats of rule breakers.

But thanks to the West City residents led by their Mayor Edd and Lilly's friends, they defeated Loki and restored peace and the environment flourished in the server.But now, a new threat appears... this time, not in a human form.

Plainly, what is necessary now is intellectual honesty and courage as well as a willingness to begin «centering» the attention of the leaders of the human community on the threat to humanity, life as we know it, the environment and the integrity of Earth that is posed by the gigantic scale and patently unsustainable growth rate of the human population worldwide.

the degrading environment and dissipating resources of Earth, and now the financial meltdown of the central banking system and ominously looming threats to the real global economy.

But «the science is not settled» that AGW, caused principally by CO2, has been the primary cause of warming since 1950 and, thus, represents a serious potential threat to humanity and our environment, unless steps are taken now to curtail CO2 emissions.

Thanks for clearing up your position — as I now read it (and pardon me, if I still did not understand completely) you do NOT specifically ascribe to the notion expressed by IPCC or alarmists, such as James E. Hansen, that AGW has caused most of the recent global warming and thus represents a serious potential threat to humanity and our environment.