Sentences with phrase «unprecedented numbers of scientists»

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One degree may not sound like much, but Stefan Rahmstorf, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute in Germany, says, «Every tenth of a degree increases the number of unprecedented extreme weather events considerably.»

Betting the Farm 3 November 2006 Howard Hughes Medical Institute's lavish new venture offers unprecedented opportunities for a small number of early - career scientists willing to take a big gamble.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute's lavish new venture offers unprecedented opportunities for a small number of early - career scientists willing to take a big gamble

As scientists race to decode genomes — not just of humans but of bacteria, yeast, chimps, dogs, whales and plants — the number of DNA sequences available for analysis has grown 40,000-fold in the past 20 years, providing unprecedented insight into billions of years of species evolution.

The IU scientists discovered the unprecedented lack of Complex I in a multicellular organism during a larger project to expand the number of parasitic plants that have undergone mitochondrial genome sequencing.

A growing number of scientists disagreeing with IPCC flies in the face of a noticeably growing body of evidence absolutely negating all this talk with literally unprecedented Arctic sea ice melting along with any Arctic glaciers or permafrost you can pick.

Despite the lack of an El Niño effect, 2017 is set to be the second or third hottest year on record; hurricanes unprecedented in their power pummelled the U.S. and Caribbean; the largest wildfires California has seen burned deep into the Northern Hemisphere winter; scientists warned the «Arctic shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen region of recent past decades»; studies revealed an ecological armageddon amongst insect populations; droughts fuelled famine and insecurity across East Africa and the Middle East; the U.N. warned the number of chronically undernourished people has risen for the first time since the turn of the century due in large part to climate impacts.

We had an unprecedented number of approximately 3,000 nominations of outstanding scientists who volunteered to work on the AR5.

Last year scientists used our DeskGen platform to design an unprecedented number of short DNA sequences, or CRISPR vectors, and the number of publications in the field is growing exponentially.