OO Brazil: Forest Degradation Can Be As Bad For Biodiversity As Deforestation - we are failing to address some of the most dire impacts of human activities on forests and biodiversity, researchers are warning.
Yet it's not as if the government itself doesn't recognise the dire impacts of climate change –particularly on developing countries.
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.
Simply selling buildings, merging departments with little in common and relocating offices to the outskirts of a city could have a dire impact on productivity and local economies.
Raising fears that breakneck economic growth is having a dire impact on the nation's health, a government survey blamed pollution for a sharp rise in cancer cases.
Such talk, which originally emanated from Berlin, has alarmed other vulnerable countries, like Spain, which knows that mention of bigger private-sector losses could have a dire impact on their bond markets.
Ainley and his colleagues predict a dire impact on polar penguins if global temperatures rise 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels, which now seems inevitable.
