Offshore oil and gas drilling could cause permanent damage to our beaches and coastal economies - threatening serious impacts to our $32 billion commercial fishing and $60 billion tourism and recreation industries.
Malta's tourism industry faces a number of issues impacting on it now and threatening to impact on it in the future.
Another possible explanation derives from the fact that vitamin C interacts with iron in ways that might make even normal rates of iron consumption result in the heart-threatening impacts of chronic iron overdoses.Vitamin C's advocates, on the other hand, view Dr Dwyer's findings as a freak result that may unfairly tarnish their baby's image.
The long-term freshwater storage trend indicates that Bonriki Island's lens is still contracting after 27.5 years of pumping, and lens thinning is threatening to impact the water supply salinity.
Such approaches could be of particular use in countries like Benin, where high levels of pyrethroid resistance are already threatening the impact of conventional vector control tools [4], [32].
In their minds, influenza and pneumonia were more acute and more easily transmitted, and had the potential to impose an immediate life-threatening impact on their daughters' health.
To summarize, one probabilistic graphical model is defined by a mission dependency network, a resource dependency network, and a set of external shock events with associated local impacts threatening nodes (or random variables) defined by the resource dependency network.
At the time, the site's property manager, Stewart Alcock, said heavy rainfall "is one of the big climate impacts threatening our built heritage".
Both blasts had immediate, and possibly long-lasting, impacts, threatening the ever-fragile peace process between Israel and the Palestinians and the security of American forces and international peacekeepers stationed inside Iraq.
