For example, Pyrethrum ( refers to several Old World plants of the genus Chrysanthemum ) is a natural insecticide with minimal environmental impact.

* The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty was signed October 4, 1991 and entered into force January 14, 1998 ; this agreement prevents development and provides for the protection of the Antarctic environment through five specific annexes on marine pollution, fauna and flora, environmental impact assessments, waste management, and protected areas.

His interest in biogeography resulted in his being one of the first prominent scientists to raise concerns over the environmental impact of human activity.

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.

Planning for the Big Dig as a project officially began in 1982, with environmental impact studies starting in 1983.

The elimination of a wide range of pollutants and wastes from the environment is an absolute requirement to promote a sustainable development of our society with low environmental impact.

The environmental impact of concrete is a complex mixture of not entirely negative effects ; while concrete is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, recycling of concrete is increasingly common in structures that have reached the end of their life.

Polyploidy appears to have enhanced the ability of flowering plants to survive the extinction, probably because the additional copies of the genome such plants possessed allowed them to more readily adapt to the rapidly changing environmental conditions that followed the impact.

One of these systems, which is operated by Cornell University and began operation in 2000, was controversial during the planning and building states for potential negative environmental impact.

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.

* Cornell's environmental impact statement for Lake Source Cooling

The port would handle 2 million containers per year, while as of 2007, there has been no official announcement of a project not universally welcomed due to its environmental, economic and cultural impact.

Human vulnerability, and lack of appropriate emergency management, leads to financial, environmental, or human impact.

In October 2009, the Jordanians announced accelerated plans to extract around 300 million cubic meters of water per year from the Red Sea, desalinate it for use as fresh water and send the waste water to the Dead Sea by tunnel, despite concerns about inadequate time to assess the potential environmental impact.

Many researchers are interested in the interaction between personal characteristics, the individual's behavior, and environmental factors including social context, and their impact on development ; others take a more narrowly-focused approach.

The environmental impact method of analysis is generally the main mode for determining what issues the environmental movement is involved in.

However reservoirs have significant environmental impact, as does alteration of naturally occurring stream flow.

IKEA's goals of sustainability and environmental design in their merchandise have sometimes been at odds with the impact a new IKEA store can have on a community.

This would have been a cheaper and less grandiose project, with a smaller environmental impact.

Islanders were usually not evacuated during the nuclear weapons testing, and data on the environmental and public health impact of these tests remains contested.

MIT has also taken steps to reduce its environmental impact by running alternative fuel campus shuttles, subsidizing public transportation passes, and building a low-emission cogeneration plant that serves most of the campus electricity, heating, and cooling requirements.

" While chemical issues in the brain that result in anxiety ( especially resulting from genetics ) are well documented, this study highlights an additional environmental factor that may result from being raised by parents suffering from chronic anxiety.

Analysts can discern the origins of natural and man-made isotopes in the study of environmental radioactivity.

A recent study from progressive authors about the environmental skepticism movement claim that the overwhelming majority of environmentally skeptical books published since the 1970s were either written or published by authors or institutions affiliated with Right-wing think tanks.

Hydrology is the study of the movement, distribution, and quality of water on Earth and other planets, including the hydrologic cycle, water resources and environmental watershed sustainability.

' In a 2003 study about changes in environmental activism in the Crown of the Continent ( Flathead ) Ecosystem, Pedynowski noted that junk science can undermine the credibility of science over a much broader scale because misrepresentation by special interests casts doubt on more defensible claims and undermines the credibility of all research.

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.

Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the promotion of environmental and historical conservation, and the study of world culture and history.

A 2008 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science found that a nuclear weapons exchange between Pakistan and India using their current arsenals could create a near-global ozone hole, triggering human health problems and wreaking environmental havoc for at least a decade.

As knowledge has increased, paleontology has developed specialized sub-divisions, some of which focus on different types of fossil organisms while others study ecology and environmental history, such as ancient climates.

It has largely become the domain of the study of environmental management or anthropogenic influences.

In November 2005, a team of scientists joined with The Nature Conservancy to open up a new research station on Palmyra to study global warming, the disappearing coral reefs, invasive species, and other environmental concerns.

Human adaptation, the study of human adaptive responses ( physiologic, developmental, genetic ) to environmental stresses and variation.

Since then, with improved environmental standards, light-coloured peppered moths have again become common, and the dramatic change in the peppered moth's population has remained a subject of much interest and study.

The European Parliament has requested that EU members refrain from using the powerful sonar system until an environmental impact study has been carried out.

The conclusion was supported by a case-control study, environmental sampling, and laboratory analysis of samples collected from the fair and members of the outbreak.

H. Bruce Franklin ’ s most recent book, The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America is an interdisciplinary study of the role of menhaden in American environmental, economic, social, political, and cultural history from the seventeenth into the twenty-first centuries.

Political ecology is the study of the relationships between political, economic and social factors with environmental issues and changes.

Plant pathology ( also phytopathology ) is the scientific study of plant diseases caused by pathogens ( infectious diseases ) and environmental conditions ( physiological factors ).

This proposes a five-part conceptual framework for the study of environmental history in the Canadian North.

A 2010 study of all adult twins in Sweden ( more than 7, 600 twins ) found that same-sex behavior was explained by both heritable factors and individual-specific environmental sources ( such as prenatal environment, experience with illness and trauma, as well as peer groups, and sexual experiences ), while influences of shared-environment variables such as familial environment and societal attitudes had a weaker, but significant effect.

Agricultural chemistry – study of both chemistry and biochemistry which are important in agricultural production, the processing of raw products into foods and beverages, and in environmental monitoring and remediation.

* Environmental science – integrated study of factors that influence the environment and environmental systems, especially the interaction of the physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment

** Plant pathology – scientific study of plant diseases caused by pathogens ( infectious diseases ) and environmental conditions ( physiological factors ).

Metagenomics is the study of metagenomes, genetic material recovered directly from environmental samples.

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.