For the U. S. Government's scientific enterprise, a significant impact of NAPAP were lessons learned in the assessment process and in environmental research management to a relatively large group of scientists, program managers and the public.

In 1981 the Nicaraguan Institute of Natural Resources and the Environment ( IRENA ) conducted an environmental assessment study and found that half of the water sources sampled were seriously polluted by sewage.

* Article 8 requires environmental assessment for all activities, including tourism.

The UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security ( Bonn, Germany ) explores problems and promotes solutions related to the environmental dimension of human security and aims at academic excellence in two broad thematic areas: ( i ) vulnerability assessment, resilience analysis, risk management and adaptation strategies within linked human-environment systems and ( ii ) internal displacement and transboundary migration due to environmental push-factors.

* The State of the World report is an annual assessment of urgent global environmental problems and the innovative ideas proposed and applied across the globe to address them.

Earth sciences today are closely linked to petroleum and mineral resources, climate research and to environmental assessment and remediation.

In addition to problems in science and mathematics, the method has been applied to: finance, social science, environmental risk assessment, linguistics, radiation therapy, sports, and many other fields.

Mining has been suspended since 2009, when U. S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar temporarily withdrew from the permitting process, pending assessment of the environmental impact of mining.

Whilst these impacts can be included in a detailed environmental impact assessment, a key issue has been how to present these assessments alongside estimates of those costs and benefits that can be expressed in monetary terms.

These build on existing cost-benefit analysis and environmental impact assessment techniques and help decision makers weigh up the monetary and non-monetary impacts of transport projects.

Environmental assessment of archaeological sites will also require that environmental conditions ( water chemistry, dynamic properties ) as well as the natural organisms present on the site are recorded.

After extensive public consultation and technical study, a $ 400 million CAD cleanup plan jointly funded by the federal and provincial governments awaits further environmental assessment.

The agency conducts environmental assessment, research, and education.

" According to the CBD, Kempthorne's regulations violated the Endagered Species Act, " did not go through the required public review process " and " were rushed by the Bush administration through an abbreviated process " with " environmental impacts were analyzed in a short and cursory environmental assessment, rather than a fuller environmental impact statement.

* Life cycle assessment, the investigation and valuation of the environmental impacts of a given product or service caused or necessitated by its existence.

The plans are pending an environmental impact assessment.

An environmental assessment of the plan will be submitted at the Antarctic Treaty's consultative meeting in May 2012.

The draft environmental impact assessment with a finding of " no significant impact " was published in February 2011.

The project may yet be terminated, since an environmental impact assessment has yet to be performed on the area.

In September 2002, the Federal Highway Administration approved an environmental assessment document.

* provision of information to the general public through the validated environmental statement which is based on a comprehensive environmental impact assessment

Therefore, because the breasts are especially sensitive to developmental interference ( genetic and environmental ), breast symmetry indicates a woman of good health and thus of good breeding stock, who shall successfully bear more ( surviving ) children than will a woman with asymmetrical breasts.

It argues, however, that conservation will bring us significant environmental, economic and social benefits in return.

All the environmental impact reports and scientific studies have shown that the Cornell lake source cooling system has not yet had and will not likely have any measurably significant environmental impact.

Incentives of financing, tributary incentives, tariffs, and others will be implemented, that is intended to benefit areas of tourism, foods process, renewable and alternative energies, bioenergies, pharmaceutical and chemical products, biochemical and environmental biomedecine, services, automotive metallurgical industry, footwear, and automotive parts and pieces, among others.

Sink patches are unproductive sites that only receive migrants ; the population at the site will disappear unless rescued by an adjacent source patch or environmental conditions become more favourable.

Indeed, in the U. S. estimates of the environmental regulation's total costs reach 2 % of GDP, and any new regulation will arguably contribute in some way to that burden.

Environmental interests will often criticize environmental regulation as inadequately protective of the environment.

Detractors note that a significant number of environmental theories and predictions have been inaccurate and suggest that the regulations recommended by environmentalists will more likely harm society rather than help nature.

Nevertheless, they expect that similar patterns will occur, or have occurred, first in other developed nations and then in the developing world as there is a limit to how much environmental factors can improve intelligence.

Realistic options will have real consequences consisting of personnel actions or non-actions modified by environmental facts and values.

This final phase will include live-fire training as well as " environmental and judgment training " at naval and air force facilities in California and Arizona.

Political and environmental considerations make it unlikely such an engine will be used in the foreseeable future, since nuclear thermal rockets would be most useful at or near the Earth's surface and the consequences of a malfunction could be disastrous.

As phytoplankton and forests are the main ways in which Gaia draws down greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide, taking it out of the atmosphere, the elimination of this environmental buffering will see, according to Lovelock, most of the earth becoming uninhabitable for humans and other life-forms by the middle of this century, with a massive extension of tropical deserts.

The disruption of the river's natural flow, run-off from agriculture, and the introduction of pest species like the European Carp has led to serious environmental damage along the river's length and to concerns that the river will be unusably salty in the medium to long term — a serious problem given that the Murray supplies 40 % of Adelaide's domestic water.

" In the context of environmental health, the scientific community will have to pay close attention to those physicochemical properties of engineered nanomaterials that defeat or circumvent normal cellular processes and lend themselves to indiscriminate penetration of biological barriers, tissues, and cellular systems.

Opposing this optimism is the prediction that advanced science and technology will, through deliberate misuse or accident, cause environmental damage or even humanity's extinction.

Until the political will emerges to regard environmental and health problems as a threat not only to the government in power but also to the very survival of Uzbekistan, the increasingly grave environmental threat will not be addressed effectively.

The IDA lends to countries with the aim to finance projects that will develop infrastructure and improve education, healthcare, access to clean water and sanitation facilities, and environmental responsibility.

Louis Redshaw, head of environmental markets at Barclays Capital, predicts that " Carbon will be the world's biggest commodity market, and it could become the world's biggest market overall.

They will germinate within a day or two with the right environmental conditions, and then the vegetative cells can be straightforwardly destroyed.

Longer repeat sequences will suffer more highly from environmental degradation and do not amplify by PCR as well as shorter sequences.