Sentences with phrase «under environmental stress»

Basically, it's a liquid toner that softens, soothes, and helps to balance your skin even under environmental stress.

The plant hormone the biologists directly tracked is abscisic acid, or ABA, which plays a major role in activating drought resistance responses of plants and in regulating plant growth under environmental stress conditions.

For his Ph.D., at the University of California, San Diego, he studied the genetics of plant development, then moved to studying plants under environmental stress.

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Polman foresaw a litany of other problems ahead, he told investors, listing these: «subdued economic growth, geopolitical tension, the resultant backlash against globalization and technology, a planet under increasing environmental stress, and the fragmentation of consumer trends, shopping channels, and media.»

With the U.S. under environmental and political stress to provide itself with alternative sources of energy, moving fusion power from the chalkboard to the power grid as quickly as possible was really the only option when the NIF was approved in 1997.

With the Conservative party increasingly stressing its green credentials, Gordon Brown was under pressure to outline his own environmental vision as he outlined his 11th, and most likely, final budget as chancellor.

From bear to bear they were highly variable, suggesting the animal was under a lot of environmental stress.

Perennial roots may extend more than six feet under the ground, enabling greater resilience to environmental stresses such as drought and allowing them to grow in low - quality soil.

Their mission was to study how the abundant marine life in these frigid waters will bear up under the stress of one of the world's most daunting, if least publicized, environmental threats: the rising acidity of the oceans.

This research group demonstrated that corals more actively digest and expel damaged symbiotic zooxanthellae under conditions of thermal stress, and that this is likely to be a mechanism that helps corals to cope with environmental change.

Daniel's contributions to discovery - based and translational research to improve crop yield under abiotic stress, foster agricultural sustainability, and enhance environmental protection are impressive.

Poor students who live in poverty are often under great environmental stress at home and consequently do not receive the support necessary to develop at the same rate as other peers.

But when environmental issues put the hive under stress, Flora takes on new roles and begins a climb to power.

Another body of literature argues that migration rates are no higher under conditions of environmental or climate stress (Black et al., 2011a and b; van der Geest, 2011; van der Geest and de Jeu, 2008; Tacoli, 2009; McLeman and Hunter, 2010; Gemenne, 2011; Foresight, 2011; Cohen, 2004; Brown, 2008).

Massive extinctions occur more often under cool environmental conditions or when clades are submitted to extreme stress by natural catastrophes; for example, intense volcanism, glaciations, epidemics, etc..

Breaking New Ground: A Personal History (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2013) Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2012) World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2011) Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2009) Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2008) Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2006) Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2005) Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2003) The Earth Policy Reader (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2002) with Janet Larsen and Bernie Fischlowitz - Roberts Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2001) Plan B Updates:

A March 2017 paper from the Positive Energy study, System Under Stress, notes that Canada's energy decision systems are under stress, resulting in poorer outcomes in environmental performance, investment, innovation, cost effectiveness, reliability, and our ability to transition to a much lower - carbon energy ecoUnder Stress, notes that Canada's energy decision systems are under stress, resulting in poorer outcomes in environmental performance, investment, innovation, cost effectiveness, reliability, and our ability to transition to a much lower - carbon energy ecStress, notes that Canada's energy decision systems are under stress, resulting in poorer outcomes in environmental performance, investment, innovation, cost effectiveness, reliability, and our ability to transition to a much lower - carbon energy ecounder stress, resulting in poorer outcomes in environmental performance, investment, innovation, cost effectiveness, reliability, and our ability to transition to a much lower - carbon energy ecstress, resulting in poorer outcomes in environmental performance, investment, innovation, cost effectiveness, reliability, and our ability to transition to a much lower - carbon energy economy.

The history of energy is a volatile one, as markets shift under the pressure of extreme price swings, technology breakthroughs, geopolitical stresses, and environmental change.

Second, Lazarus» model emphasizes the subjective experience of stress and states that the identification of individual factors is crucial to understand why some individuals suffer more stress than others under similar environmental circumstances.