2014 is set to be England's hottest year in over 350 years, according to the world's longest continuous record, with climate change at least partly to blame.
To meet the challenges deriving from rapid population growth and worldwide climate change, continuous efforts to increase rice production by using the genetic improvement technologies will be of great importance.
Key to understanding and addressing climate change is continuous and precise monitoring of environmental conditions.
Future development of cities is inevitably constrained by the limited availability of water resources, under challenges of emergent climate change and continuous population growth.
The increasingly widespread effects of climate change and continuous uncertainty of conventional energy supplies are causing an increasing demand for the transition of the cities through sustainable urban development.
A pollen profile from Okarito Pakihi Bog in south Westland, New Zealand extending from near present back to Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6 provides a continuous record of vegetation and climate change for the past two glacial cycles.
Moreover, there are already some districts in the basin, though not urban, where water demand is outgrowing water availability or supply, and this is further exacerbated by the continuous growth of population and climate change.
This year's poll shows the second continuous year of rising concern about climate change, after a decline over the previous five years.
Scientists say the move will help ensure a continuous 22-year data set on climate change, which has been threatened by a Pentagon plan to strip six climate sensors from a key Earth-observing satellite (Science, 31 August 2007, p.1167).
Hence, climate change is a continuous threat and all societal sectors need to develop strategies to reduce the frequency, magnitude and severity of these effects in order to prevent humanitarian and economic crises (8, 15– 15).
