Sentences with phrase «with environmental shifts»

A number of cultural changes are associated with this environmental shift; most notably, bands became larger and somewhat more sedentary, tending to forage from seasonal camps rather than roaming across the entire landscape.

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But space posed a unique design constraint on Stearns: solar radiation and extreme environmental temperature shifts would melt and degrade the paint and ink he worked with, making them hazards to the delicate optical hardware in the satellites.

After graduating from St. John's University with a bachelor's degree in marketing, he became a sales manager for an environmental services company before shifting gears and becoming a debt collector.

With global leadership in both internal combustion engines and hybrid and electric powertrains, the firm is expected to profit from shifting secular trends and increasingly stringent environmental regulations.

Discouraging domestic oil and gas development does not hasten the arrival of alternative energy; it only shifts the environmental risks associated with petroleum extraction to developing nations.

Findings indicate that both consumers and foodservice operators must play a role in relation to broad issues associated with public health and the environment, with the biggest contribution the foodservice industry can make toward environmental sustainability being the reduction of red meat consumption as part of a larger shift toward more plant - based dishes.

The unkindest cut had to come with the idea of eliminating the environmental department, shifting its duties to other departments.

She also encouraged people concerned with the dramatic shift in environmental policies at the federal level to get involved with the national midterm elections this November.

While environmental advocacy organizations have taken credit for prompting these changes at some of the world's top banks, the shift coincides with crashing commodity prices in oil, coal and natural gas markets worldwide.

Rising global temperatures portend shifts in all these ocean currents, potentially with drastic consequences, says Albert Gabric, an environmental scientist at Griffith University in Brisbane.

The 62 - year - old mother started the group in 2011 with two Environmental Defense Fund board members to push for a systemic shift in how the country approaches climate change.

Instruments of Policy A commonsense strategy for dealing with rising environmental risk would be to probe every reasonable opportunity for shifting to sustainability as quickly, easily and inexpensively as possible.

Banks suggests that reconciling those rights agreements could lead to a shift in the way coal mining companies view methane gas, treating it as a potential source of revenue rather than a fugitive gas to be dealt with as a safety or environmental concern.

Researchers have found that a Rocky Mountain mustard plant alters its physical appearance and flowering time in response to different environmental conditions, suggesting some species can quickly shape - shift to cope with climate change without having to migrate or evolve.

«I think what's needed for collective invasion will depend on the environmental stresses the cancer cells face, and it may shift with treatment,» Marcus says.

«This shift to earlier weaning age in the time leading up to woolly mammoth extinction provides compelling evidence of hunting pressure and adds to a growing body of life - history data that are inconsistent with the idea that climate changes drove the extinctions of many large ice - age mammals,» said Cherney, who is conducting the work for his doctoral dissertation in the U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

«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.

Conservatives» attitudes toward climate change and other environmental concerns shift when the issues are reframed in terms more closely aligned with their values, a new study from Oregon State University indicates.

Professor Doherty explains: «Systems of food production, trade and consumption are increasingly vulnerable to interconnected political, economic and ecological shocks associated with climate, environmental changes, shifts in farming practices and consumer lifestyle changes.

The entrepreneur and speaker is on a mission to help individuals and organizations cultivate the personal practices, workflow adaptations, and environmental / cultural shifts needed to become more agile and innovative in the face of uncertainty with a greater sense of ease.

A woman's genetic make up, coupled with environmental triggers and lifestyle (such as diet and stress levels), shifts hormones in such a way where libido can be affected.

The eight - speed auto that comes with the highest - output version of the Ford Edge «s 2.0 L EcoBlue features Adaptive Shift Scheduling, which optimizes shift timing to suit individual driving styles, and Adaptive Shift Quality Control, which adjusts clutch pressures based on «vehicle and environmental information» for smooth shifts at every Shift Scheduling, which optimizes shift timing to suit individual driving styles, and Adaptive Shift Quality Control, which adjusts clutch pressures based on «vehicle and environmental information» for smooth shifts at every shift timing to suit individual driving styles, and Adaptive Shift Quality Control, which adjusts clutch pressures based on «vehicle and environmental information» for smooth shifts at every Shift Quality Control, which adjusts clutch pressures based on «vehicle and environmental information» for smooth shifts at every turn.

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- hear comments from GLaDOS as you play - sounds from the Portal series - «cake is a lie» graffiti makes an appearance, with «the cake is in the kitchen on floor 2» written below it - the three light - up sections of the toy pad must be colored by positioning a character on a colored pad - then you move the actual minifig to the correspondingly colored panel on the toy pad itself - find hidden items in the world using the toy pad as a guide - toy pad flashes red when you go in the wrong direction and then gradually shifts to green when you're going the right way - use an environmental «keystone» to scale Batman to about ten times his normal size - use Gandalf's gift for magic to propel a levitated Companion Cube through a series of tubes and onto a button

With motivation stemming from retribution just as much as environmental concern, Final Fantasy VII's Cloud Strife was at the forefront of this shift, while VIII's stubbornly stoic Squall Leonhart later set a new watermark for taciturn personalities.

The tonal shift here was bizarre but welcome, reconfiguring the Winter Hall for the new time setting and filling the environment with chilling environmental storytelling and the ghostly visages of the past.

AC: There are smart film - proven techniques to do it, such as having a zoomed - in shot and being somewhere else entirely with the next zoomed - out shot, putting an emphasis on the emotions on a character's face to distract from shifts, starting your cinematic sequence with an environmental overview shot, timing it together with dynamic movements, etc..

«Seismic Shifts» will showcase artists and architects whose work challenges disciplinary boundaries and raises critical social, environmental and political issues and will include painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, mixed media, video, and architectural models created between 2005 and 2012, with a number of new works featured.

The exhibition grapples with not only the transient aspects of social and environmental changes impacting the landscape but also the shift in its representation and perception over time.

As principal of Shift Design Studio, she works with building materials, plants, movement and language to investigate the difference between Here and There in service of interactive cultural locationing and environmental stewardship.

The notion of air, aside from being the one factor that distinguishes earth from all other planets, continues to shift in our mind with the advent of technological innovations (e.g. wireless communication) and environmental concerns (ozone layers, global warming).

October 23 — November 22 Shifting Identities / Humanity and Nature: Artemis Herber and Michelle Dickson Both artists deal with environmental change and human relationships to nature.

Operating as a response signal or installed within a throughway, the works in the exhibition incorporate generative qualities that hold the capacity to emit or shift with environmental conditions.

Elsewhere in the oceans, the environmental changes during the PETM led to shifts in the distribution of plankton groups, with tropical species invading the high latitudes and high - latitude species dwindling in abundance.

The decline in the United States has mainly been due to market forces shifting electricity generation from coal to abundant and cheaper natural gas, along with environmental regulations built around the traditional basket of pollutants that even conservatives agreed were worth restricting.

And, at least in his recent video interview with Carbon Brief, it seems Lee, like many economists who came of age at the peak of the traditional environmental movement, has a very locked - in view that raising the cost of polluting is the critical way to shift global economies away from cheap fossil fuels.

Those questioning the vulnerability of this species to warming will point to its successful survival through two previous warm intervals between ice ages as evidence the bear can deal with reduced ice and other big environmental shifts.

Even as he recognized the environmental costs attending human development in the 20th century, he expressed relentless confidence that a shift to a deeper, more durable, definition of progress could be melded with the power of innovation to produce better outcomes.

Currently, residents of Montréal generate, on average, 350 kilograms (772 lbs) of garbage per person each year, with an estimated 70 percent of that waste coming from food products; but the attitude toward waste is shifting as awareness of environmental consequences grows.

What is the best way to keep driving and home heating affordable while accelerating a shift to energy choices that come with fewer environmental and security risks?

One way or the other, it's clear that, by the end of the 1990s, the veneer of ice on the Arctic Ocean had shifted to a far more tenuous state, with ever less thick, years - old ice like the floes I camped on when I went with the team setting up the annual North Pole Environmental Observatory.

France's Sarkozy realigned the environmental movement with the pro-business right this past year, a move that some observers called the next decade's most important political shift.

Even with the logic in driving efficiency, doesn't it still make sense to have an «all of the above» plan in shifting to less - polluting energy options, given how a shift from coal to natural gas — while not perfect by any means — also syncs with environmental goals related to other pollutants (mercury, etc.)?

The shifting positions of scientists and pressure groups in environmental debates is illustrated further by comments by May and Krebs in the parliamentary event we started with.

By Peter Gleick, President March 17, 2015 California's hottest and driest drought in recorded history has shifted the sources of electricity with adverse economic and environmental consequences.

However, in addition to our efforts to encourage a societal shift around profound ecological issues, we also get in the weeds, as it were, with our efforts to understand, measure, and minimize the environmental impact of our operations at the Institute.

If societies take on environmental issues ranges from hard left «environment trumps all other concerns» to hard right «environment doesn't matter at all», while academia covers merely «trumps all others» to «mildly important but requires a balance with others» then the «centre» of academia will be significantly different from that of society in general — the whole bell curve is shifted left.

The above charts compare three different locations and to check whether the shifts in temperature patterns were climatic rather than instrumental or environmental, the Perth Botanic Gardens maximum and minimum temperatures can be compared with Perth Airport.

One potentially significant environmental benefit is the capacity to shift passengers away from aviation, a mode of transport with much higher carbon intensity.

The most direct method may be to shift away from the tried and true method of economic dispatch (satisfying electricity demand with the generators that can do it at lowest cost) and adopting a new method of environmental dispatch.