Between 1970 and 2008, the ecological footprint of high-income nations rose seven percent, the report said.
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But depending on where you live and whom you ask, lawn-care may well be causing ecological disaster.
Dominating the list are high-income countries, whose average ecological footprint is now five times that of low-income nations.
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Our accounting mistake is wreaking ecological and economic damage across the U.S. and the world.
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But visible or not, the ecological and economic costs of those servers are massive.
The creation of new organisms for agriculture and medicine could have unforeseen ecological side-effects, he suggests.
Consider just a few of the noteworthy highlights of the human ecological footprint.
As scientists scramble to understand the ecological fallout, a massive research effort is ramping up.
The second actively managed ETF that Bateman discussed will employ an ecological or green focus.
If that is true more widely, decades of ecological research will have to be re-examined.
Crowded Haiti has long suffered from squabbling and venal politicians, extreme inequality and ecological stress.
The Northeast Ecological Corridor comprises 14 sq km (5.4 sq miles) of the island's coast.
Perhaps now is the time for me to consider a more formal return to ecological study?
This meant that any differences in behaviour would unlikely be due to genetic or ecological influences.
The classification of HCVFs is highly dependent on the particular socio-cultural and ecological context.
It was an ecological disaster, with dead and oil-laden birds as a painful reminder.
The participants discussed about the importance of groundwater in global ecological cycle .
In addition, trials might be able to identify those drugs that had least ecological impact.
It is not possible to predict with complete accuracy what the ecological consequences will be.
These ecological and internal factors are frequently marginalized, indirectly addressed, or not even considered.
Some of the biggest ecological risks come from cruise tourism, deforestation, overfishing and oil exploration.
Despite widespread awareness of the problem, little has been done to reverse this ecological disaster.
About the real-world ecological risks of genetically manipulated crops - not a single word.
Three major factors will drive the paperless office movement, says Gutsche: ecological, technological and generational.
No living architect has thought more closely about the ecological effects of his buildings.
Economic activities depend on access to ecological resources including water, biomass and fossil fuels.
The Greens (ecological rather than patriotic) were sad only to double their seats, to two.
In fact this particular mismatch may actually be all that stands between humanity and ecological disaster.
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Then there is an ecological assessment which seeks the best compromise between safety, cost and ecology.
If technologies easily crossed the ecological divide, the implications would be less dramatic than they are.
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