Sentence examples for dire impacts from inspiring English sources

This increase in mercury could have dire impacts on fish from the Pacific Ocean.

Still, any thickening of the border or protectionist policies could have dire impacts.

Yet it's not as if the government itself doesn't recognise the dire impacts of climate change –particularly on developing countries.

More than 240 plant species show signs of infection and dire impacts are expected on more of these in future.

"Where Do Old Cellphones Go to Die?," by Leyla Acaroglu (Sunday Review, May 5), called attention to the dire impacts that e-waste exports have on the environment and human health in developing countries.

Deforestation in the Amazon has taken us perilously close to a tipping point in which the entire ecosystem is close to collapse, with dire impacts for climate change and huge economic consequences.

Judge Julia Gibbons, who chairs the federal judiciary's budget committee, also attested to sequestration's dire impact.

For too long, evidence of the dire impact of diesel emissions and other pollutants has been sidelined".

As the British Medical Association noted this week, this will have a dire impact on those children's health and wellbeing.

Conservationists say the emissions from burning up to 60m tonnes of coal a year would have a dire impact on efforts to limit global warming.

There have been warnings, however, that cuts to the social housing budget could have a dire impact on the private sector.