Sentences with phrase «wildlife impacts from»

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The Thompson campaign has pointed out throughout the city comptroller's run for mayor that he has worked hard on environmental efforts, including attempting to stop natural gas drilling within or near the city's upstate watershed, which provides drinking water to the city's residents; calling for the preservation of wildlife space in the Ridgewood Reservoir; and issuing a report documenting the impact of airport congestion at the city's three major airports; and the rise in airport runoff, especially the flow from Kennedy Airport into marshes in Jamaica Bay.

Reductions in biodiversity from illegal wildlife trade can have other substantial negative human health impacts, including the loss of potential sources of pharmaceuticals, experimental models for studying disease, crop pollination and micronutrients for humans lacking alternative sources of protein.

«Worryingly, this new threat may be affecting wild dogs deep inside wildlife areas where we would expect them to be protected from human impacts.

Lead author, Professor Callum Roberts from the University of York's Environment Department, said: «Many studies show that well - managed marine reserves can protect wildlife and support productive fisheries, but we wanted to explore this body of research through the lens of climate change to see whether these benefits could help ameliorate or slow its impacts.

But incidents like last week's 5,000 - barrel spill from the Keystone pipeline — and smaller spills that don't make national headlines — can also impact wildlife, even if they don't spur dramatic photos.

A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.

Although the country has a target to increase terrestrial protected areas from 13.8 % of total land area in 2015 to 20 % by 2025, economic development has already had an impact on wildlife.

The Paris Agreement pledges to reduce the expected level of global warming from 4.5 °C to around 3 °C, which reduces the impacts, but we see even greater improvements at 2 °C; and it is likely that limiting temperature rise to 1.5 °C would protect more wildlife.

This is why on 24 March millions of people across the world will come together for Earth Hour, to show their commitment to reducing global emissions and protecting people and wildlife from the impacts of climate change.

The researchers worked on sites in the Arctic and Antarctic and took precautions to limit the impact of sunlight and wind, using tarpaulins to protect their sample sites and positioning themselves on the middle of a glacier away from soil and other forms of polar wildlife which might contaminate the snow.

Although GM beets and oilseed rape may harm wildlife, it's difficult to predict the overall impact of GM crops from the findings, described in eight papers published today in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

But if the problem of wildlife impacts festers, the growth of concentrated solar, which by one recent estimate could grow to a $ 9 billion worldwide industry in 2020, up from $ 1 billion in 2013, could be crimped by lawsuits and opposition from conservationists.

Everything from agriculture to wildlife to human health can be seriously impacted.

«Finally,» Cuomo concluded, «the return of feral cats to the wild must be balanced against the impacts these cats can have on wildlife,» which impacts are most limited if feral cats are not reproducing, including rapidly breeding back up to the carrying capacity of habitats from which cats have been removed and killed.

«Removing both pet and feral cats from outdoor environments is a simple solution to a major problem impacting our native wildlife.»

But cancer also impacts horses and wildlife — from devastating eye cancers in Haflinger horses to viral cancers taking Tasmanian devils toward extinction (not if we can help it!).

Unfortunately, most fail in several ways to adequately protect the public or native wildlife from impacts by free - roaming cats.

The FWCC must fulfill its duty to the people of Florida to protect native wildlife from the negative impacts of free - roaming cats.

The resulting book, «The Human Age,» is a splendidly prismatic tour of humans» techno - biological environmental impacts and tinkering, taking readers from an encounter with the Toronto Zoo's iPad - wielding orangutans («ginger - haired tree dancers,» in Ackerman's parlance) to the sterile drawers of DNA from vanishing wildlife at the University of Nottingham's Frozen Ark project back to the Creative Machines Lab of roboticist Hod Lipson in her home town.

Here's some past footage from the group showing the impact of the paper business on forests and the wildlife in harm's way:

links to tools showing potential impacts on natural resources and wildlife from climate and land use changes

(09/01/2011) Recent, unprecedented walrus haul - outs and increased instances of long - distance swims by polar bears show the direct impacts on wildlife of dwindling Arctic sea ice from climate change.

Read more from AWEA's siting expert about the reality of wind energy's impact on wildlife and what the industry is doing to help mitigate climate change.

Apart from direct contact, there can also be wildlife impacts both within the dammed reservoirs and downstream from the facility.

National Wildlife Federation works to safeguard wildlife and their habitats from the impacts of global warming.

In addition, they have downplayed the very real likelihood of difficult - to - remediate spills from the pipeline, which would threaten to degrade and pollute land and water resources and have harmful impacts on human health and wildlife.

We are protecting the west's most imperiled wildlife, fish, and plants from the harmful impacts of air pollution from coal - fired power plants.

From compliance of federal and state laws to building timber harvest plans that minimize environmental impact, private forest landowners are taking the necessary steps in their everyday practices to be stewards for the water, soil, and wildlife of working forests.

In a letter sent to EPA officials last week, attorneys for the Center for Biological Diversity warned that the agency's draft permit for water pollution discharges in the Gulf fails to properly consider how dumping wastewater containing chemicals from fracking and acidizing operations would impact water quality and marine wildlife.

We formally petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect migratory birds from the negative impacts of wind energy, asking for regulations to safeguard wildlife and reward responsible wind energy development.

The power of these impacts to disrupt fish, wildlife, and plants (and by extension the humans that rely on these resources) results from a variety of climate change factors acting in combination.

The USFWS issued its first interim guidance about how wind project developers could avoid impacts to wildlife from wind turbines in 2003, and replaced these with a «tiered» approach outlined in the Land - Based Wind Energy Guidelines (2012 LBWEGs), developed with the wind industry starting in 2007 and released in final form by the USFWS on March 23, 2012.

Michael Miersch from the Deutsche Wildtier Stiftung recently gave a talk in the House of Lords about renewable energy's devastating impact on wildlife and the environment in Germany and other parts of the world.

From plantations to processing to consumer products, this three part series examines the impacts of industrial palm oil on the environment, human rights and wildlife conservation.

Since then, biologists have been working diligently to understand the full impact that the disaster has wrought on the region's wildlife — even as the spill and its fallout slide further from the public's view.

Impact on local wildlife and habitat was the second most cited (19 per cent); - 63 per cent of respondents believe Canada benefits from oilsands development; 19 per cent disagree; - 64 per cent of Canadians believe oilsands are important to providing a secure supply of Canada's future oil needs.

It's not a surprise, of course, but hard evidence could help environmental groups push for stronger regulations and enforcement of those regulations from governments where wildlife is most impacted.

IBM has created a new predictive analytics software that can be used to collect huge amounts of complex information about wildlife - such as what people think about them, where the animals are located, why they are hunted, how everything from education level to access to medicines impacts their decisions - and figure out the best areas to focus conservation efforts.

Implementing more clean energy — and quickly — is critical to protecting our wildlife and wild lands from the growing impacts of climate change.

«Bubble curtains» are also being used to protect marine wildlife from the sound impacts of installing offshore wind turbines.