The industry counters this threat with intensive marketing, lobbying and millions of dollars poured into fighting campaigns to tax or cap the size of sugary drinks.
The ability of ecosystems worldwide to provide essential products and services is being threatened by major environmental, social and economic changes (Millenium Ecosystem Assessment [2005]), and there is a rising demand for intensive monitoring to detect threats and potentially catastrophic changes earlier (Biggs et al. [2009]).
Ten states require that patients be tested for antibiotic-resistant bacteria like MRSA upon admission to intensive care units, where the threat of infection is typically highest.
Use of systemic insecticides is highly cost intensive as well poses bigger threat of their incorporation in dietary chain.
Lack of natural disturbances and the homogenization of boreal forest because of intensive forest management pose a threat to biodiversity and can endanger the provision of ecosystem services.
The grey market makes it more difficult to track revenues for taxation purposes, contributes to a public safety threat as cash intensive businesses are often targets for criminal activity, and prevents proper tracking of large swaths of finances across the nation.
As intensive marine aquaculture developed, the threat posed to fish health and production by infestations of parasitic copepods emerged as one of the greatest challenges facing the industry [2].
Changes in landscapes and intensive agricultural practices are current threats to woodcock populations: destruction of hedges, decrease of permanent grazed meadows, impoverishment of soils fauna biomasses from ploughing and chemical applications.
Perhaps surprisingly, intensive agriculture is not the only threat to butterflies – the abandonment of previously cultivated agricultural land, in central and southern Europe, is also a problem when it results in the neglect of key grassland habitats.
Coastal pollution is one major threat to reefs, and intensive fish farming is a rapidly growing source of this pollution.
