Scientists believe that the diminishing area of the Arctic Ocean that is covered by floating sea ice is forcing the polar bear to come into closer contact with the related grizzly bear, resulting in hybrids that could threaten the distinctive gene pool of both species.
Bradypus torquatus, the maned three-toed sloth, occupies a diminishing area of coastal forests of eastern Brazil, and B. pygmaeus, the pygmy three-toed sloth, only recently described, is endemic to the small island, Isla Escudo de Veraguas on the Atlantic coast of Panama [ 1].
Britain, by contrast, has no peak over 1,500 metres, no glaciers, diminishing areas of moorland, and in terms of woodland it is one of the most radically scalped of all the world's countries.
As the world heats up, mountain glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates, while rare plants and animals struggle to survive over ever diminishing areas, and mountain peoples, already among the world's poorest citizens, face even greater hardships.
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"What we have measured is that growing up in poverty seems to have diminished areas like the prefrontal lobe and hippocampus, which are important both for academic performance and decision making.
But new roads would most likely attract more settlers and more clear-cutting for farms and businesses, diminishing the area's appeal to tourists.
"What Silliman has done is to go into the backyard of his critics and examine, mechanistically, why their salt marshes are diminishing in area," he says.
Because the degradation of gelatin nanoparticles is characterized by a homogeneous erosion as mentioned above, the H-C model, which describes the release profile of drug particles with a diminishing surface area during dissolution [ 39], and the Hopfenberg model, which describes the heterogeneous erosion [ 40], cannot be applied.
Significant droughts made the struggle for survival even harder by diminishing grazing areas in an already-shrinking natural environment.
The exact details of the revised document have not yet been made public, but Brazilian Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said the government wanted to avoid diminishing protected areas of the Amazon and other sensitive ecosystems.
