Sentences with phrase «when environmental pressures»

Monica formed in April, at the time of the year when the environmental pressure is rather high.

Not exact matches

The most dramatic effects were a nearly 2 mmHg rise in diastolic (the low number) blood pressure when the odor was rated an 8 compared with no odor, and a nearly 3 mmHg rise in systolic (the high number) blood pressure when hydrogen sulfide concentrations reached 10 parts per billion compared with no detectable level, the researchers reported last week in Environmental Health Perspectives.

There could be three evolutionary processes could explain this adaptive radiation of hominins: 1) the occupation of novel niches for species living in a highly productive but spatially constrained region when there are deep fresh water lakes in the EARS [46] and 2) the lakes themselves creating spatial structure producing population isolation and vicariance and 3) repeated periods of increased resource availability stimulated adaptation and radiation followed by periods of environmental stress when the lakes rapidly dried up imposing strong selection pressures [28].

However we know environmental pressures became unsustainable at least early last century when Americas population was about 70 million people.

So far, the political pressure to produce domestic oil in a hurry has trumped public concern about the environmental cost of flaring, which includes local air pollution but mainly comes through the heat - trapping influence of the carbon dioxide produced when the gas is burned.

What do you get when you combine copious amounts of government grant money, layers of dishonesty, the heat of environmental activism, a few dollops of ambition, and a glaze of science in a political pressure cooker?

The ban became controversial when it was delayed in late 2010 after what the public interest group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility charged was pressure by The Coca - Cola Company.

Yet energy justice — defined here as meeting one's needs for the services that energy provides at reasonable cost, with fair and equitable access, and without disproportionate economic and environmental burdens — can mitigate the problems and pressures in other areas, especially when efficiency and solar energy are developed so as to create local jobs.

That idea risks taking certain crucial pressure off China when it comes to environmental improvements.

This can be used to justify increased economic expansion, and hence likely increased environmental pressures, when it's not as aggressively needed.