Heat - heat waves may be strong enough one day to kill use if our air conditioners aren't 24/7, drought - irrigation has its limits, and who knows
what ecosystem disruptions might spring nasty surprises on us (think pine bark beetle but something that hits crops, or a disease that hits us direct).
Not exact matches
Zorah Magdaros» arrival means a complete
disruption of the local
ecosystem, and it's the Fifth Fleet's job to not only find out
what those
disruptions are and why they're happening, but to restore the monster food chain to its normal, sustainable system.
What I think just about everybody underestimates is 1) the historical difficulty of «living off the land», and 2) the degree to which that is compounded by
ecosystem disruption and «weather weirding.»
Our work on the science of marine reserves suggests that many marine
ecosystems can indeed rebound from serious
disruption and depletion if they are protected from extractive and destructive activities (that's
what a marine reserve does).
With ocean temperatures rising across the globe as anthropogenic climate
disruption (ACD) continues to pick up speed, the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral
ecosystem on Earth, may well be an example of
what is happening to all of the coral on the planet.
With ocean temperatures rising across the globe as anthropogenic climate
disruption continues to pick up speed, the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral
ecosystem on Earth, may well be an example of
what is happening to all of the coral on the planet.