Sentences with phrase «to cope with a changing climate»

It may be necessary for understanding and forecasting how plants and animals cope with a changing climate.

Changes in extreme weather and climate events have significant impacts and are among the most serious challenges to society in coping with a changing climate.

This is farmer - led agriculture coping with the changing climate» added Medina.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced a number of new initiatives to help farmers cope with a changing climate, including the establishment of regional hubs that would provide information to growers (ClimateWire, June 6).

To cope with a changing climate and increased food demand, innovation in crop genetics, including genetically modified foods, will be required according to a new report

Now new techniques are emerging that allow us to directly «edit» the genetic code of plants to make them, for example, more nutritious or better able to cope with a changing climate; we believe the benefits, and the precision in «editing,» could allay the concerns, leading to more widespread adoption.

To avoid the sixth mass extinction we will probably have to employ more aggressive conservation, such as moving species to help them cope with a changing climate.

This is a starting point to study the role these M. truncatula genes — which have adapted to different environments in space — will play in the adaptation of populations over time, as they coevolve with rhizobia and cope with changing climate.

Even if CO2 concentrations were to increase according to worst - case scenarios, this, he estimates, would provide several decades» respite — which might provide time to develop non-carbon energy sources; research the intricate workings of climate systems; and plan long - term strategies to cope with a changing climate.

For example, Adélie penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae), unable to cope with the changing climate, have declined by about 80 percent around Palmer Station.

The implication of the study, however, is that coffee growers will have to move ever upwards to cope with the changing climate, demanding the intervention of national and global carbon bureaucracies.

Indigenous peoples have the ability to interpret and react to the impacts of climate change in creative ways, drawing on our traditional knowledge's and other technologies to develop solutions which may also help the wider society in its attempts to cope with the changing climate.