The Yellow River diversion project, in operation since 2008, aims to mitigate a projected ecosystem disaster.
This sixth extinction will eventually be preserved within the geological record, meaning that humans will become synonymous with a significant ecological and ecosystem disaster within the planets history.
So, while I am haunted by having compared Goldberg's clever work to a spectacularly failed contraption, the threat to public safety and ecosystem disaster presented by the Electric Fence is positively horrifying.
Teaching with The Times -Read The New York Times and select an article about a fragile ecosystem, natural disaster, or environmental hazard.
Wireless sensor networks with IoT (Internet of Things) have been applied to many applications such as ecosystem monitoring, disaster watch, building automation, health monitoring, object tracking, and plant control.
Current developments in ecosystem-based approaches to climate adaptation (EbA) and ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR) tend to focus on scientific projections, engineering techniques, and their respective roles in shaping economic benefits.
Using a qualitative, inductive approach, we analysed perceptions and outputs of a transdisciplinary project which aimed to generate new knowledge, awareness and action for ecosystem-based disaster management in South Africa.
Although risk analyses have been established for the design of structural protection measures against rockfalls, they have hardly been applied to ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction measures, such as protection forests.
The Eco-DRR (ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction) is attracting attention as infrastructure that substitutes "gray" or built infrastructure, owing to its attractive characteristics such as lower costs of introduction and maintenance, provision of various ecosystem services, and local community development, among others.
They turbo-charge natural and user-created erosion, exposing rocks and roots and generally living short lives before becoming loose, wide, ecosystem-damaging disasters.
James Cameron did not get his chance to save the world from a rogue oil well, but it is beginning to look as though he rescued Hollywood's box office ecosystem from total disaster this year.
