Sentences with phrase «widespread damage on»

They said that any supernova located beyond this would not cause widespread damage on Earth, but could still seed the planet with the substance of life.

Not exact matches

Category four Cyclone Debbie hit northeastern Australia on Tuesday between Bowen and Airlie Beach ripping up trees and causing widespread damage that is still being assessed.

The New York Times reports widespread damage to property, homes, and infrastructure on these and other islands.

Hurricane Irma sideswiped Puerto Rico on Sept. 6, leaving more than 1 million people without power but causing no deaths or widespread damage like it did on nearby islands.

The mayor said his community took a blow «right on the nose» that left «widespread devastation,» including homes, businesses and schools that were heavily damaged.

President Donald Trump on Oct. 3 said Puerto Rico's debts will have to be wiped out following the widespread damage from Hurricane Maria.

On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

Eggs are universal on most restaurant menus and consumer shopping lists, but a widespread fear of salmonella poisoning has somewhat damaged their reputation or at least hindered their potential for new applications and further growth.

By Kathryn Jones ggs are universal on most restaurant menus and consumer shopping lists, but a widespread fear of salmonella poisoning has somewhat damaged their reputation or at least hindered their potential for new applications and further growth.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday signaled he will send more resources and state personnel to Puerto Rico as the island continues to recover from widespread damage caused by Hurricane Maria.

There's a widespread view among those constituents that Build It Back has, despite some progress and success when the de Blasio administration first focused on it in late 2014 and early 2015, ground down into a bureaucratic nightmare largely incapable of making broad progress in repairing and rebuilding Sandy - damaged homes.

On the first global map of earthquake hazards, pink and red signal a more than 10 % chance of ground accelerations exceeding 25 % of the force of gravity within the next 50 years — high enough to cause widespread damage to buildings.

«Geomagnetically - induced currents on system infrastructure have the potential to result in widespread tripping of key transmission lines and irreversible physical damage to large transformers,» a 2009 report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and the Energy Department says.

When this model was then applied to the future, they found that in a world of continuing high greenhouse gas emissions, the threshold for widespread drought - induced vascular damage would be crossed and initiate widespread tree deaths on average across climate model projections in the 2050s.

Government would consider tax on products that damage the environment after survey signals widespread public backing for idea

Peyton and star Dwayne Johnson, working together for a third time after Journey 2: The Mysterious Island and San Andreas, possess a remarkable aptitude, and sure seem to have a lot of fun inflicting widespread property damage on major cities.

The group, known as «The East,» is bent on punishing large corporations that have knowingly unleashed widespread harm upon the public, whether by selling pharmaeutical drugs or damaging the environment.

Damage was widespread across Toronto market sectors as investors try to gauge how a drop in oil prices of around 40 per cent since mid-summer will impact on the Canadian economy.

TOPSHOT - Members of the Olson family remove debris and damaged items from their father's home in the Twin Oaks Estate after Hurricane Harvey caused widespread flooding in Houston, Texas on August 31, 2017.

At present, as I discussed in my analysis article on Tuesday, evidence for widespread ecological damage is thin; so we have to presume that as of now, the significant volume of oil that remains (even a quarter of 4.9 milion barrels is still far more than released by the Exxon Valdez) is not hitting enough of those key zones to be having a major impact.

LONDON, 19 March — Extreme storm events on the scale of Hurricane Katrina which caused widespread damage in the Gulf of Mexico in 2005 will occur far more often because of climate change, a new study says.

Meanwhile, Roger Pielke, a professor of environmental studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, wrote on his blog, «it does seem safe to say [Irene's] effects will be widespread and the damage total considerable.»

3) indirect impacts mediated through societal systems, such as undernutrition and mental illness from altered agricultural production and food insecurity, stress and undernutrition and violent conflict caused by population displacement, economic losses due to widespread «heat exhaustion» impacts on the workforce, or other environmental stressors, and damage to health care systems by extreme weather events.

The focus was on extreme weather events that occur on a seasonal timescale, and specifically on the United Kingdom floods of Autumn 2000 which occurred during the wettest autumn ever recorded, causing widespread damage and an estimated insured loss of # 1.3 billion.

A larger number of simulations for each of the Industrial and Non-Industrial Autumn 2000 climates were completed.The focus was particularly on the United Kingdom Autumn 2000 floods because, aside from causing widespread damage, they occurred during the wettest autumn since records began in 1766.

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) has released a report, False promises, hidden costs: the case for reframing employment and volunteer police record check practices in Canada, questioning the value of widespread police record checks and shining a light on the damaging individual and societal consequences of current practices.

The connection between the two is clear — other, similarly damaging factors aside, bullying in the workplace can have a severe detrimental effect on a person and can be a widespread issue among lawyers in their field especially.

Mr. Duan explained that design patent litigation isn't nearly as widespread as software patent litigation, but depending on what happens in Apple v. Samsung and other design patent damages cases, design patents could give rise to many lawsuits by patent trolls in the not too distant future.

The earthquake measured 5.5 on the Richter scale and caused widespread damage to pipes, walls and furniture.

The fast - moving fires that are blasting through multiple counties ignited on last Sunday night and intensified due to heat, low humidity and wind, causing widespread damage of catastrophic proportions.