"If loss of sea ice is driving changes in the jet stream, the jet stream is changing Greenland, and this, in turn, has an impact on the Arctic system as well as the climate," said lead author Marco Tedesco, a research professor at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.
However, changing rainfall, but not snow, is becoming the key factor driving changes in ground water resources in this drainage system, as results of the decades of warming and humidification in northwestern China.
"It is driving changes in the brain".
This implies that similar social factors are driving changes in both countries.
Such a finding is entirely consistent with the idea that cultural factors are driving changes in the brain's wiring.
Generational push-back may be the wake up call that's required in driving changes in corporate culture.
"We think the market is moving, and companies like Netflix and others are driving changes in behaviour," he said.
It also seems likely that changes in the ocean cycles are linked, with changes between El Niño and La Niña driving changes in the PDO cycle.
I don't have any big hopes in the leadership, but I have hope in younger generations slowly driving changes in society.
Video reports explore the forces driving changes in fertility, the impact of access to family planning and one instance, in Machakos, Kenya, where rapid population growth did not come with social or environmental harms.
In our report, Dementia: ethical issues, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics sets out an ethical framework to underpin a number of recommendations that will hopefully move us in this direction, driving changes in the way we approach decision-making, health and social care and research in relation to dementia.
