Sentence examples for changes to the natural from inspiring English sources
Activities that can affect the hydrologic cycle at the watershed scale include small impoundments, direct pumping from streams for urban or agricultural use, construction of impermeable surfaces, and changes to the natural land cover.
The Ria de Aveiro, a lagoon located in the NW coast of Portugal, presents a wide range of changes to the natural hydrodynamical and physicochemical conditions induced for instance by works of port engineering and pollution.
This uncertainty is particularly manifested in examination of climate change effects on extreme events which are important not only because they impact on life and property, but because the changes to the natural environment – such as beach erosion – occur as a result of high waves during extreme events.
Sadly it is the world's hunter-gatherers who are most affected by the changes to the natural world, which most of us are unaware of.
One study from the PHR portfolio is evaluating whether changes to the natural environment can help psychological wellbeing [ 34].
Most of us are now in agreement that environmental sustainability is increasingly threatened by changes to the natural environment that will significantly affect human and ecosystem health [ 1, 2].
"This is about the most subtle change to the natural world I can imagine so far that allows us to have to objects we use, while still maintaining healthy ecosystems".
The results of the experimental study showed that the changes to the specimens' natural frequency varied non-linearly with the cycle ratio or damage fraction, and that relatively large changes in the natural frequency could be measured near the end of the fatigue life.
Palm oil expansion requires land reallocation as well as changes to the local and natural ecosystems.
The "world without us" scenarios have natural changes to the environment caused by volcanoes, the Sun, and internal climate variability (phenomena like El Niños and La Niñas).
The Joint Environment and Human Health (E&HH) Programme has explored how both man-made and natural changes to the environment can influence human health.
