Many species are stressed by environmental destruction and climate change.
She stressed that habitat destruction and illegal poaching were even bigger threats to the lion population.
Such attempts, Putin stressed, often lead to destruction and bloodshed, citing events in the Middle East and North Africa as an example.
As for Mr. Trump, although he asserted that he was opposed to "toppling regimes" and that his administration would "stress diplomacy, not destruction," he still called for increasing spending on virtually every aspect of the U.S. military.
leading to oxidative and nitrosative stress cause destruction of brain macromolecules leading to neurodegeneration.
Further analysis of the ultrastructure of chloroplasts in the present study indicated that salinity alkalinity stress induced destruction of the chloroplast envelope and increased the number of plastoglobuli and aberrations in the thylakoid membrane (Fig. 10).
Expression of androgen receptors has been linked with development of castrate resistance 8, and shown to be upregulated by HIF1 α 9. Furthermore, HIF1 α is upregulated in prostate tumors 10, 11 and is a potent defensive mechanism used by tumor cells against oxidative stress or destruction by androgen deprivation, chemotherapy or radiation cytotoxicity 12.
Climate change will weaken these ecosystems, already stressed by overfishing, creeping desertification, deforestation and destruction of coral reefs.
This aerial overview of Sequoia National Park shows drought damage that presages even further destruction from drought; the reddest trees are severely drought stressed.
Systemic factors – acute renal failure, multiple fractures, soft tissue destruction, haemorrhagic shock, transfusions, antibiotic therapy, parenteral nutrition – undoubtedly stressed the patient's immune status and facilitated fungal growth.
