Sentence examples for massive degradation from inspiring English sources

If such businesses secure large areas under the new law, scientists fear a massive degradation of the coastal ecosystem.

He warned, for instance, that with massive degradation of natural resources, corporations might fail the test that they used for themselves in an earlier era – their very productivity and their capacity to sustain abundance.

"Some reasonable people view disposing of the egg as a massive degradation of respect for human life, which will inevitably lead to more of the same," he said.

Although the fire seems to have led to some thawing already, Mack thinks the remaining soil should be enough to insulate the region's permafrost and prevent a massive degradation.

This change in size range correlated with massive degradation of linear DNA, suggesting that the reduced amount of large eccDNA in the absence of energy resulted from the reduced size of available DNA template.

Reprogramming in the early embryo is concurrent with massive degradation of maternal transcripts, and waves of embryonic activation that occur at the 1- to 2-cell, 4- to 8-cell (hereafter, multicell refers to stages between, but not including, 4-cell and morula), and morula to blastocyst stages [7] [9].

However, coupled with increasing population pressure and terrain characteristics of the area, there was reported massive land degradation manifested by soil erosion and resultant nutrient depletion, forest degradation and massive expansion of agricultural land use pattern with costs of other natural cover (Gete and Hurni 2001; Hurni et al. 2010; Woldeamlak and Solomon 2013).

It dropped only about 10% after 84 h, indicating the absence of any massive chlorophyll degradation.

Massive environmental degradation will occur, drastically affecting weather and climate, turning a wet cooler habitat into a hot uncomfortable cauldron.

The changing patterns of rainfall, increasing temperatures, recurring floods, droughts and massive land degradation have terrible effects for the poor people who depend upon rain-fed agriculture.

The widespread destruction of mature forests in China has led to massive ecological degradation, counteracted in recent decades by substantial efforts to promote forest plantations and protect secondary forest ecosystems.