He sees the book's genius as its "big-picture environmental thinking," successfully predicting the big issues of today.
Radiation from Japan may have been ruled out as the epizootic's catalyst, but a long list of other big-picture environmental stressors are under investigation for possibly having made the sea stars more susceptible to disease, among them temperature spikes (which may be related to climate change), ocean acidification, pollution, or some combination of the above or other pressures.
For instance, future studies using pairs of sung words that are semantically related to each other, or sung word targets primed by other meaningful stimuli (e.g. pictures, environmental sounds, or meaningful musical excerpts), could elucidate the dynamics of the N400 component in song.
The patients were also examined on a standard battery of semantic tests to assess their comprehension of pictures, environmental sounds and words (presented simultaneously in spoken and written forms unless otherwise stated).
Training that delivers a complete picture of environmental dangers faced by communities is critical in helping environmental health nurses cultivate skills that go beyond basic health care.
Where do pesticides fit into the picture of environmental disease?
He said the UK-GBC objected to the tone employed by Cameron, which painted the picture that environmental regulation was inherently at odds to business growth.
In the discussion of his first three topics, Gore presents a mostly grim picture of environmental degradation as a result of human population growth and rising consumption.
To say that Long Island "is in no great distress from a major industrial contaminant" and that it is silly to mourn for developed farms because they are "not pristine wilderness" is painting a dangerously naïve picture of environmental destruction.
This complements two fine books from other publishers, Michael McCarthy's elegiac The Moth Snowstorm (John Murray and Tony Juniperr's What Nature Does for Britain (Profile), which both deal with the bigger picture of environmental decline.
Pointing to the work of his International Sustainability Unit (ISU), a foundation set up to campaign on global sustainability, Charles said a better picture of environmental problems was needed before effective policy could be implemented.
