Sentence examples for like overfishing from inspiring English sources

In addition to climate change, Dr. Davis said, problems like overfishing and oil spills threatened these flightless birds.

More than a decade ago our work in the Mesoamerican Reef focused on marine protected areas, like overfishing, urban sewage and tourism – as these were seen as the key threats to the reef.

For his team, that means more time to understand how global changes like overfishing and climate change affect the health of coral reefs.

Coral reefs are already in decline around the world from localized environmental changes like overfishing and coastal pollution.

Dr. Parmesan thinks that reducing other pressures, like overfishing, will make species more resilient to climate change.

"But you have situations like antibiotic resistance, and systems that have been exploited by humans, like overfishing, where you get incredibly rapid changes.

So far, humans have pushed species toward extinctions through means like hunting, overfishing and deforestation.

As a result, they are also slow to adapt to and recover from negative impacts like pollution, overfishing and loss of habitat.

The beauty of taxing global public bads (like air travel, overfishing, oil exploration, currency speculation), and the reason it is so appropriate for a sustainable development framework, is that either a) the bad is diminished or b) the money raised can be spent on global public goods.

This would give them an incentive to avoid overfishing (something like this has worked well in New Zealand).

"Then layered on top of it are all the local threats that corals have suffered from over the last century or more," like water quality issues, overfishing, coastal development, and destructive collection practices, Dr. Wolf said.