Sentences with phrase «thrive in a changing climate»

From the Arctic to the deserts, plants are thriving in our changing climate.

To maintain food security, wheat breeders are working to develop plants that offer more nutritional value, have greater yields, and can thrive in a changing climate.

Crops that thrive in changing climates could be developed more easily, thanks to fresh insights into plant growth.

April 9, 2018 Zurich Financial Services Distinguished Visitor on Climate Change, Jacqueline McGlade, Professor of Resilience and Sustainability, Institute of Global Prosperity and Faculty of Engineering, University College London, UK and Director, Sekenani Space and Resilience Research Centre, Maasai Mara University, Kenya --» (Re) Active Resilience: How to Thrive in a Changing Climate» (more)

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But in her tree rings is ample evidence that a changing climate can shift our story, creating a set of conditions that we can adapt to and take advantage of in order to thrive.

Climate change and increasing ocean temperatures are the main reasons why the pacific oyster suddenly thrives in areas where it used to be too cold; The oyster is picky about temperature in most of its life stages.

Climate change is expected to increase the number of Wisconsin lakes dominated by largemouth bass and decrease those in which walleye — a more popular recreational fishing species — thrive.

If a dominant species can thrive in a warmer environment and wipe out other species, climate change could significantly reduce the diversity of species in our lakes as well.

Conservationists are increasingly considering moving plants and animals in advance of climate change to places where they might thrive in a warmer future.

As sea ice decreases dramatically across polar oceans, some scientists see a silver lining: The algal blooms that seem to thrive where ice has recently disappeared could damper climate change by trapping carbon in the deep ocean.

Montanans need to fill many gaps in our knowledge if we are to better understand and thrive under a changing climate.

The finding, reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, solves a long - standing mystery and offers hope for production of grain crops able to thrive during unpredictable weather and climate change.

New research shows that the mythical - looking marine mammals that thrive in polar regions are experiencing symptoms of chronic stress, likely because of how climate change is affecting their habitats.

How independent pet specialty retailers can survive — and thrive — in a rapidly changing business climate.

As you leave the heavily cultivated southern plains ascend to the north, the landscapes change from cascades of rice fields to gardens of vegetables, onion and coffee plantations thriving in cooler climate.

Our interactions with climate, for far more than 99 percent of history, ran in one direction: Precipitation or temperatures changed, ice sheets or coastlines or deserts advanced or retreated, and communities thrived, suffered, or adjusted how or where they lived.

I was hardly perfect, but hopefully conveyed my core conclusion: that in our variegation and imperfection, we humans — with motivation and sustained work — are perfectly suited for surviving, and perhaps thriving, in a consequential, complicated century and changing climate.

If the study of paleoclimatology has taught us one thing, it is that rapid changes in climate lead to the devastation of living things that have evolved to thrive in particular conditions.

But thanks to a changing climate, much of the downy birch that has been planted over the last half century has failed to thrive, and in fact, is dying.

Coral have been thriving, particularly in warm tropical seas through thick and thin climate change since then.

The increased temperatures and precipitation brought about by climate change have made it possible for beech trees to thrive in the northeastern U.S. and Southern Canada, and researchers say this is not a good thing.

I know it will take massive change for us as a species to survive let alone thrive in the converging global crisis around climate, food, water, fuel and the economy.

We can not thrive in a world of poverty, inequality, unrest and environmental stress — all exacerbated by climate change.

«The UN has funding for adaptation, to help people to survive and thrive in the face of climate change.

My optimism about urbanites» ability to continue to thrive in the face of climate change is based on our ability to migrate and innovate.

Countries with thriving economies will, in the long run, be more adaptive to climate change and will find more technological solutions than countries that hamstring themselves by clamping down on greenhouse emissions.

In other words, we have a supercolony thriving under exactly the conditions that alarmist ecologists are telling us will prove disastrous for the penguins because climate change.

The changes in the Earth's climate are happening at an unprecedented speed and the CSSA wants governments and researchers to act quickly to produce agriculture which can thrive in a warmer world.

If a population is extirpated in a logged area and the adjacent population simultaneously thrives in the natural habitat, is landscape changes or climate change the most likely cause of extirpation?

«The Pacific Coast states and province are working together to build a thriving economy, while reducing harmful carbon pollution,» said Matt Rodriquez, who attended the meeting on behalf of California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. «Through our shared culture of innovation, we view the challenge of climate change as an opportunity to develop new markets, attract investment and create jobs in the growing clean economy.

There are thousands of initiatives around the world starting their journey to answer this crucial question: «for all those aspects of life that this community needs in order to sustain itself and thrive, how do we significantly rebuild resilience (to mitigate the effects of Peak Oil and economic contraction) and drastically reduce carbon emissions (to mitigate the effects of Climate Change)?»

[1] Climate change creates new risks for human exposure to vector - borne diseases such as Zika, particularly in the United States where rising heat and humidity are increasing the number of days annually in which disease vectors thrive.

According to Jones, a substance produced by thriving coral reefs seed clouds leading to precipitation in a long - standing natural process that is coming under threat due to climate change.

His acquisition and finance strategies have weathered the storm of changing economic conditions, and are thriving in the climate that we are currently experiencing.