Sentence examples for environmental barometer from inspiring English sources

The whale has represented industrial resource, environmental barometer, and entertainment.

Considered a crucial barometer of environmental health, ocean acidity is already wiping out entire marine ecosystems.

Without concerted action, Dr. Joglar warns, the island could lose a class of creatures that are viewed as barometers of environmental health.

Lynda White, eagle watch coordinator at the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey in Maitland, Fla., which monitors active eagle nest sites, said that because eagles are so sensitive to contamination — evidenced by their tragic link to DDT — they are good barometers of environmental health.

In this case, it is the livestock behaviour that serves as the barometer for measuring environmental unsuitability.

The measuring chain included: the use of a five hole Pitot probe to determine the real flow speed and direction; a hot wire anemometer to confirm the measured wind speed; a thermometer and a barometer to define the environmental conditions before each test.

"It is so ridiculous, where they're taking the water and shoving it out to sea". He mocked environmentalists for "trying to protect a certain kind of 3-inch fish," repeating an apparent reference to the delta smelt, a fish on the verge of extinction that is regarded by scientists as a barometer of California's environmental health.

The authors acknowledge the global importance of the Park Grass Experiment because it acts as a 'living barometer' of the impact of environmental change on biological systems27.

Data collection included demographics, marital status, socioeconomic factors (income, education, and occupation), health-related quality of life (QRQOL), and interpersonal trust, in addition to information on political, environmental and social issues, which were related to the Asia Barometer Survey [19].

The thesis cluster of collective learning also links the Barometer to active citizenship through theses, for example, on digital democracy, environmental issues, and collective participation.

People used to throw their trash and what-have-you right out the front door, and eventually the households could have become pretty rank and unlivable". The reason trees are such an extraordinary barometer of the world around them is that they respond to shifts in temperature, rainfall or other environmental conditions by altering their growth.