"And one of the biggest impacts we see is mental health,their psychological health.

VOA: special.2011.06.08

The report concludes, "A substantial reduction of impacts would only be possible with a substantial worldwide diet change, away from animal products."

VOA: standard.2010.06.04

"So it could be a couple of years before we see the true impacts of the oil spill."

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

"And that impacts political relations at some point. Accepting Turkish leadership is just one step too far."

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

"This is a time of a lot of problems in the world," "We can see the impacts of those problems on Afghanistan and Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

"Illegal logging is down and that has important impacts in terms of trying to prevent deforestation."

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

"We're also seeing a clash between politics and special interests in rich countries contrasted very sharply with real impacts for people in the developing world,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

"There has to be this constant connection." "People have to constantly be analyzing the power structure, how that works, how that impacts their everyday life.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

The report recommends that all federal agencies begin long-term strategic planning on climate impacts.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Bill Hunt,a professor of Biology and Agricultural Engineering at North Carolina State University, has developed an easy-to-use computer model to predict how landscape impacts water pollution.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

These are impacts that are being felt here and now in the developing world,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.06

China's rapid economic growth has pulled millions of the country's residents out of poverty, but a new report says the environmental impacts of this progress is threatening the health of hundreds of millions more.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

"Coping with these kind of impacts if you're dealing with significant affects on your agriculture or your water supplies, your infrastructure and also trying to develop new kinds of energy approaches, for example--that's going to take long term investment,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

looked at things like where should they locate waste water treatment facilities because of the impacts of climate change, what risks are likely to occur to their subway system because it's underground and already requires enormous pumping of water during certain large rainfall events."

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

"You have seen massive evidence of huge social impacts in South America,farmers, up to 90,000 farmers, being displaced from their land in places like Paraguay because of the advent of massive GM intensive mono cultures, urban poverty increasing, food security has decreased all across the southern corner of Latin America dramatically over the last decade,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.21