Sentences with phrase «with environmental»

Triggered in times of heat and drought, abating in periods of wet, fires naturally keep pace with the environmental flux of the future.

Virgin Galactic's spacecraft were also designed with environmental sustainability in mind, Whitehorn said.

«The idea is that when fat cells (adipocytes) interact with environmental agents — in this case, bacterial toxins — they then trigger a chronic inflammatory process,» says Patrick Schlievert, Ph.D., UI professor and head of microbiology and co-senior author of a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE.

I'm not going to brainwash students but ask them to deal with environmental issues in a thoughtful way, to be able to put information together and then say: How are we going to solve this problem?

This would include low oxygen subsurface sites with environmental conditions predating the Great Oxidation Event that occurred about 2.3 billion years ago when the atmosphere went from very low to high oxygen concentrations.

Researchers believe the disease may be up to 80 % genetic, with environmental or physiological factors accounting for the rest.

Together with the maps the research team have produced contextual information on known risk factors for health conditions and a summary of current knowledge about possible association of health effects with environmental exposures.

Such an approach to life will soon probably have more to do with environmental conscientiousness than material success, just as the authors would no doubt wish.

«In terms of the lunar cycle, light could be important to synchronize this biological clock with environmental stimuli,» Cajochen says.

«They will help plants deal with environmental challenges, especially with climate change.»

When faced with environmental regulations and the costs they impose, companies may relocate to a less - regulated jurisdiction, taking with them jobs and contributing to «leakage» in which targets of regulation, such as carbon emissions, are not reduced, just redistributed.

Although D - Wave has been cagey about specific applications, Lockheed Martin plans to use the technology to help it build «cyber-physical systems», which integrate software with environmental sensors, says Madden.

This, argues J. J. Clarke, is how we should deal with our environmental «illnesses».

One year out of grad school, my family and I made a life - changing decision between staying on to teach at a university in Massachusetts, and returning to Alaska «just temporarily» to help with environmental oversight of Trans - Alaska (oil) Pipeline construction (1974 - 77).

Oh, why is a timber lobbyist working with this environmental organization?

Armani said it has committed to abolish all chemicals which could cause environmental damage to production sites by 2020 and is in discussion on this with environmental groups.

Further, there is a risk in overloading the code now with environmental provisions, considering the IMO involves compromise among many nations, Brigham said.

OU researchers compared these new measures of migration with environmental cues that are thought to be used by birds to adjust migration timing.

Mark Rosen, senior legal adviser at CNA Corp. who is not affiliated with environmental groups, said there should be a requirement in the code that ships operating in polar regions carry a certain level of insurance, based on their cargo.

The cause of the wasting disease is unknown, though scientists working on the mystery are testing whether an underlying virus or bacteria is to blame, along with some environmental stress, such as water temperature or salt content, making the organisms more vulnerable to it.

Ecosystem services also deliver substantial economic benefits, according to Daniel Juhn and Rosimeiry Portela, researchers who work with environmental non-profit organization Conservation International.

But stress «prepares us to deal with environmental challenges,» he notes, preparing us to fight or flee, and it keeps us paying attention to our surroundings.

When produced in excess during times of adversity, these particular miRNAs trigger epigenetic changes, which alter gene activity to cope with these environmental hardships.

DiCaprio also has bought the movie rights to a post-apocalyptic young adult novel, «The Sandcastle Empire,» which reportedly attracted the actor with its environmental themes (ClimateWire, Feb. 26).

Many climate experts believe that economists with environmental expertise are urgently needed.

The mathematical model shows that the problem for adolescents is that their light consumption behaviour interferes with the natural interaction with the environmental clock — getting up late in the morning results in adolescents keeping the lights on until later at night.

In Cat Sense, John Bradshaw explains that their eye size makes focusing between near and far so difficult that the muscles develop with an environmental bias.

Help is much needed since exposure to PCBs doesn't end with an environmental cleanup, Birnbaum said.

The next step will be to gather more ancient samples from before and after a major environmental change — the end of a glaciation, for example, or the arrival of humans in the New World — to see whether any epigenetic changes correlate with the environmental transition.

Advancements in genomics are converging with environmental changes to spur researchers to breed animals with features especially suitable to hotter and drier climates.

So they did, and now — with the Environmental Protection Agency being pressed to set an automobile fuel - economy standard of 60 mpg by 2025 — Kuttner intends to create a consumer version.

«Real world native biocrusts: Microbial metabolism: Functionally linking microbial community structure with environmental chemistry.»

An ornithologist who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.

The URI researcher's next step is to do similar studies of how the fat composition of birds changes with environmental conditions and in response to their energy needs.

Heritable, biological factors interact with environmental experiences to produce sexual orientation.

«They just decided to table that until next time,» said Gus Silva - Chávez, a negotiator with the Environmental Defense Fund in Washingon, D.C. Same, probably, with the worry by some scientists that funds for REDD might incentivize the cutting down of forests to turn them into timber plantations.

«A central attribute with an environmental benefit will imbue the entire product with greenness.»

An ornithologist at the University of Rhode Island who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.

That suggests that millions of American babies are potentially at risk,» said Anila Jacob, a physician and a senior scientist with Environmental Working Group, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that posted the study on its Web site.

Being part of a group can be extremely beneficial to animals as a way to obtain food, defend themselves from predators or cope with environmental changes.

«With environmental chemicals, the manufacturer puts out a product, and the onus is on the regulatory bodies, environmental groups and lay public to find problems and study the effects.»

Still, the threat of climate change has once - skeptical environmentalists like Greenspirit's Patrick Moore — along with environmental icons like Stewart Brand and James Lovelock — throwing their support behind nuclear energy.

Likewise, the same environmental benefits could be seen on the cow - calf system providing cattle for the feedlot, matching greater production per unit land with the environmental benefits of grazing, he added.

Forest ecologists watch as Alaskan forests struggle with environmental changes brought on by global warming

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

As head of the committee in charge of EPA oversight, he'll be in position to call agency officials to task and air conservatives» many grievances with environmental regulation.

Near fracking operations in Pavillion, Wyoming, monitors with the Environmental Protection Agency detected unsafe levels of benzene in water - monitoring wells and methane and various hydrocarbons in public drinking water wells.

«It helps us with our environmental focus; it helps us with the endangered species, perhaps.

This study opens new avenues of research aiming at integrating genomic and epigenomic data together with environmental exposures in order to elucidate the physio - pathological mechanisms underlying asthma and to promote the development of new therapies.

The outcomes of this work open new avenues of research with the goal of elucidating the biological mechanisms underlying asthma in relationship with environmental exposures and to promote the development of new therapies.