Sentences with phrase «widespread shift»

Parents and educators express concern frequently, but that concern has not translated into any meaningful widespread shifts that protect children.

While the slumping price of oil is bearing the brunt of the current volatility in the markets these days, there are other signs that indicate more widespread shifts in the credit cycle.

Buber's third way does not mean a dismissal of the comparative aspects of the history of religions but it guards against the blurring of the historical figure which is caused by the now widespread shifting into the primitive.

In eastern Oregon, large mountain areas have been hit by mountain pine beetle infestations, wildfires, or both, causing widespread shifts in forest ecosystems.

Large - scale deforestation in the tropics could drive significant and widespread shifts in rainfall distribution and temperatures, potentially affecting agriculture both locally and far from where forest loss is occurring, concludes a study published today in Nature Climate Change.

Clemente added that the shift to athleisure might be emblematic of larger cultural trends in America, including the widespread shift to a focus on health and fitness.

But even going forward, he believes the businesses will reap «better - than - economic growth» thanks to a widespread shift to offshore services.

The implications of these estimates are that perhaps environmental concerns do not justify the abandonment of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers that a widespread shift to organic agriculture would entail.

«In addition to the direct loss of forest, there was a widespread shift of the remaining global forest to a more fragmented condition,» explains Kurt Riitters, a research ecologist and team leader with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape Ecology.

So it's not a big stretch of the imagination to think that some change, like food additives or antibiotic use, might have caused a fundamental, widespread shift in gut flora, making it easier for many people to gain weight, and increasingly difficult to shed extra pounds.

Therefore, the authors use their collective insight to propose a widespread shift in how educational leaders, school leadership teams, teachers, students, parents, and the community think about and talk about what it takes to improve schools.

It's also due to a widespread shift in preferences.

Instead, Sierra Club Canada advocates a sensible mix of solutions, involving the highest possible level of energy efficiency by North American households and businesses alike, the deployment of renewable sources such as wind and solar power, and a widespread shift to new, innovative technologies like hybrid and fuel cells to move people and goods around.

And the second three will have an even bigger impact in driving a widespread shift towards renewable energy.

«Now, a series of recent studies is underscoring another risk: A widespread shift toward biofuels could pinch water supplies and worsen water pollution.

Rainforest destruction in the tropics could hurt farmers in Europe, U.S. Large - scale deforestation in the tropics could drive significant and widespread shifts in rainfall distribution and temperatures, potentially affecting agriculture...

This «captured energy» metric further appears to assume that averaged Btu's in each kWh will continue to decline in some forecasted fashion, primarily due to a widespread shift towards renewable form of electric generation; perhaps attributable to a full implementation of the soon deceased «Clean Power Plan» and greater reliance on renewables for electricity (if that term can be accurately used with unreliable sources.)