Compared to September conditions in the 1980s and 1990s, this represents a 45 percent reduction in the area of the Arctic covered by sea ice.
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Controversially, the congressional bill also allows for reserve areas in the Amazon to be reduced from 80% to 50%, as long as the state where the reduction is planned maintains 65% of protected areas and if local legislation permits a reduction in reserve area.
The concept should then lead to the development of maps to be technically specified and made available to the selected end-users who will have to test the products and deploy them in order to achieve higher societal benefits in the area of disaster risk prevention and reduction.
Within this framework, NIEM and the Centre will focus on research and training efforts to provide targeted training to education managers, university students and school principals in the area of climate change and disaster risk reduction.
The so-called Krebs trial showed that there is a 16% reduction in the rate of increase for a 150 sq km area (60 sq miles) if more than 70% of badgers are killed in a series of culls held once a year for four years.
These include the area's arson reduction team funding text messages warning of the consequences of deliberate fires.
Another challenge for Alltel is a possible reduction in revenue it gets when users of other networks roam into its area.
The researchers also saw not only a reduction of hippocampal shrinking in two of the volunteers, but the brain area actually grew by more than 5%.
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It comes as the long-term future of fixed cameras in the area is considered and follows a 50% reduction nationally in road safety budgets last year.
Other changes include a reduction in the maximum number of turbines, from 333 to 218, and to the total area of seabed which will be developed, from 76.4 sq miles (198 sq km) 67.5 sq miles (175 sq km).
Curiously, Admiral Crowe implicitly acknowledges that such an agreement is not inherently in the U.S. interest by rationalizing the coupling of American concessions in this area with "major" Soviet concessions in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks.
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Recent years have seen a reduction in piracy off the Horn of Africa, with pirates deterred by an international deployment of warships in the area.
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