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"die off" Definitions
  1. to die one after the other until there are none left

498 Sentences With "die off"

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"When corals die off, unfortunately we die off," surmises Leblond.
Following the die off, folks quickly guessed that infections from normally harmless Pasteurella multocida caused the die-off.
The die-off widened the channels, allowing in more salt water, causing more die-off and more widening.
It's the largest die-off event of the species ever recorded.
Indeed, true wilderness is growing as foresters and farmers die off.
It's one that produces many branches (most of which die off).
Supporters of populism will become disillusioned, or will simply die off.
At least not until entire generations of SATC viewers die off.
As these cells die off, AMD sufferers lose their central vision.
The cause of death in this die-off is still unknown.
Are words going to die off, thanks to Apple and Unicode?
Normally, though, small blooms die off after a week or so.
Will marine life suffer a massive die-off or become radioactive?
The ticks don't want the moose to die off completely, either.
As ice turns to liquid water, trees flood and die off.
A drought or harsh winter will lead to a die-off.
"Any reduction in warming will reduce tree die-off," he said.
There is this sense of excitement that never seems to die off.
But after exercise, these cells did not die off in massive numbers.
They can't just die off unceremoniously in the beginning of the season.
Before the die-off, there were more than 240,000 Betpak-Dala saiga.
Still, he and his collaborators will continue monitoring this die-off site.
The now too-large population began to die off, had to leave.
It was the largest mass die-off of seabirds in recorded history.
The hype surrounding native advertising will subside, and potentially even die off completely.
Sometimes she feels her state wants the poor to "die off," she said.
Its tissues may then swell and become damaged, and may even die off.
The last die-off happened around 65 million years ago, when dinosaurs disappeared.
That means the crocodile out-lived the die-off by 15 million years.
The die-off of the Great Barrier Reef isn't just about losing coral.
That was the worst die-off of coral ever recorded at the reef.
So my instinct says that the work is going to die off quickly.
A recent die-off in Arizona suggests it is starting to happen again.
But large scale action isn't happening, and the mass die-off is proceeding.
There are various reasons why animals die off at higher rates in war zones.
In ALS, a person's motor neurons throughout their body and brain steadily die off.
There were no ill effects, he said, and the cells did not die off.
While some fat cells may die off naturally, they are replaced with new ones.
"The first trajectory we found is what we call the die-off," Frank said.
But any that aren't well used are pruned by the brain and die off.
Previously, it was believed that cosmic radiation from a supernova caused the die-off.
They're in the midst of the largest, longest, and worst mass die-off in history.
The unprecedented coral die off at the Great Barrier Reef is not an isolated incident.
That's because as the disease continues, he says, insulin-producing cells start to die off.
In 2012, conservationists watched George, the last of the Pinta Island Giant tortoises, die off.
It's the most rapid and catastrophic kelp forest die-off ever seen anywhere on Earth.
The 13 birds represented Maryland's largest bald eagle die-off in 30 years, officials said.
Thomson said the 13 birds represented Maryland's largest bald eagle die-off in 30 years.
Now, they're finding that the Mayans didn't just die off—people reorganized themselves and persevered.
With only males left, the populations will slowly start to die off, some scientists say.
The trees along the shore, saltwater licking at their roots, were beginning to die off.
This isn't the first time a big die-off has occurred in the Northeast Pacific.
By allowing them to die off, we risk turning our carbon sinks into carbon bombs.
As older, less discriminating donors die off, so has unblinkered loyalty to once-favored causes.
If the earth were to warm by two degrees, the Schulman Grove would die off.
"I would not go nearly as far to say it's a die-off," he said.
The recommendation applies until the first hard frost of the year, when mosquitoes die off.
When reefs die off and become fragmented, it is harder for corals to reproduce naturally.
This die-off limits the reach of other nearby nodes, which then die off as well, and although it doesn't start an extinction-level event for the virtual app, it does permanently limit its reach due to the number of people who have churned.
Listen: The only thing I'm desperate for is to have impressions such as this die off.
In order to not die off, bacteria and viruses have to efficiently infect us and reproduce.
In November, it was announced that the Reef had suffered its largest die-off on record.
Not all species succumb to it, but the ones that do die off in horrifying fashion.
All that heat kicked off what has been a major coral die-off around the globe.
But in the other three, civilizations overuse resources and collapse or die off as a result.
That makes amphibians the most at risk, with a whopping 40 percent predicted to die off.
Frail people die off sooner than more resilient ones, leaving behind a pool of tough seniors.
Without healthy corals, the ecosystem and the fish that live within it begin to die off.
As bees die off because of pesticides, there's talk of using tiny drones to pollinate crops.
But the conditions leading to a die-off would have an impact well beyond wild horses.
We are responsible for the current die-off of species, not some asteroid or volcanic eruption.
Tufted puffins at a neighboring island did not see the same die off according to the study.
In the brains of people with Parkinson's, though, the cells responsible for making dopamine slowly die off.
I don't know what caused the big die-off, but the end result was a massive stinkfest.
Animals and plants flourish and die off; the amount of dust in the atmosphere rises and falls.
"The most dramatic die-off occurred four to five years after the drought had begun," said Goulden.
The planet may now be heading for a sixth mass die-off, this time because of humans.
Sones believes that this is the most massive mussel die-off that she'd seen in 15 years.
Termed colony collapse disorder, the die-off counts among its causes a parasite aptly named Varroa destructor.
The plan also includes bringing back sea urchins, which suffered a mass die-off in the 1980s.
Instead, Maura will die off screen and the finale will be focused on the family's grieving process.
After a bleaching event occurs, a certain fraction of coral are likely to die off from disease.
It was found humanity could go through a soft landing, a gradual die off or full blown collapse.
And the Oxitec mosquitoes are unlikely to get very far because they are, essentially, programmed to die off.
" He continued: "Over time, reason and fairness will win out, while bigotry and hatred literally would die off.
A mass die-off isn't what this frog needed, but that is exactly what appears to have happened.
Corals are often encircled by beds of seagrass, which die off and decompose every winter, releasing additional CO2.
Beekeepers expect some of their bees to die off from season to season—typically, around 17 percent annually.
The largest die-off of corals was recently observed on Australia's Green Barrier Reef due to warmer water.
But, as the last Dutch speakers began to die off, Orange City took measures to embalm its heritage.
Candidates come and go, platforms change, the leadership of parties lose elections, fall to scandal, and die off.
There was a mass die-off among the regional brands; there were even casualties among the big guys.
But if temperatures stay high too long, as they did this year, the corals start to die off.
Confidence: Medium-High Tomorrow night: Skies remain largely clear and winds are in no hurry to die off.
Rising ocean temperatures contributed to a widespread die-off in the Great Barrier Reef in 2015 and 2016.
It led seal and sea-bird populations to die off, algal blooms to spread, and coral to bleach.
Bezels are likely to die off together with companies like HTC and Sony that still cling on to them.
Two pathogens — one known as Pasteurella and the other as Clostridia — contributed to the rapid and widespread die-off.
Climactic events or competition from Neanderthals caused them to die off, leaving no genetic trace behind in the population.
We're currently in the midst of another mass die-off, and this one's shaping up to be far worse.
Add another die-off to the list: Southern California beaches are blanketed in hundreds of thousands of tiny crabs.
"It will go into our savings to provide for the needs of us as we die off," she said.
"It looks like it's going to die off before it gets to the point of turning around," Chinchar said.
Perhaps most significantly, the study excluded corals, which are currently in the midst of a catastrophic, global die-off.
I had Eric Weiner talk about sort of these innovation cities that then die off over history, historical time.
"It's sort of a chain reaction that causes the die-off to persist over a long time," Davis said.
But in the last few years a mysterious die-off has been hitting the groves—and it's spreading fast.
Season 10 is also when characters start to die off, as actors exit the series of their own accord.
The most common one was called "the die off" and as its name suggests, it's not a great outlook.
Slice Intelligence analyst Ken Cassar expects that about half of these companies will die off sooner rather than later.
River fish could also die off; higher temperatures have already led to die-offs due to proliferative kidney disease.
And as your brain reinforces the use of new behaviors, the connections supporting old, destructive behaviors will die off.
This spring scientists and conservationists around the world waited anxiously to see whether the die-off would be repeated.
Smokers with testicles see their sperm counts and motilities drop, and smokers with uteruses' eggs die off more quickly.
The blaze followed years of drought and a massive tree die-off fueled in part by rising average temperatures.
These hairs often die off with age, which is why older people are usually unable to hear these sounds.
After the die-off, the prefecture created a task force of local professors and experts to study the lake.
The first global coral die-off began in 1982, and now they seem to be happening every few years.
Most of these unbalanced cells divide only slowly or die off altogether, while the normal cells multiply far faster.
At least 17 species of animals, including wild boar, weasels, and blackbirds, were affected by the mass die-off.
But a new study out in March showed that the die off has been even worse than they realized.
The whale die-off has been designated as an "unusual mortality event," a classification that authorizes a special investigation.
One possible suspect in the die-off event is rocket fuel from decades of launches from facilities in central Kazakhstan.
While other bees could potentially pollinate those species, many could become extinct if these bees were to die off entirely.
If the feces is composted for a long time, the parasites die off and the remaining nutrients boost crop yields.
Hopefully, Alexa's food ordering abilities will only grow from here and not die off as just another Super Bowl stunt.
One has to think: who will go to the symphony when the older generations who revere it so die off?
But after factoring in massive die-off events like one in 2013, they concluded D-Day could come much sooner.
Now, scientists in Australia have reported the "largest die-off of corals ever recorded", with the main culprit being 'bleaching'.
If any one bacteria broke out, it would stop being able to make its "antidote" to antibiotics and die off.
Roy studies early Alzheimer's, when memories begin to slip away, but nerve cells haven't yet begun to rapidly die off.
Their report describes a catastrophic die-off on the northern part of the reef, impacting the mix of coral species.
Vlach culture has begun to die off, as young people choose not to accept it and leave these isolated communities.
It describes how the brain's neurons transmit electrical signals with full force one last time before they completely die off.
As warming crosses specific temperature thresholds, scientists expect ice sheets to melt and the Amazon rain forest to die off.
The Great Barrier Reef experienced an extended marine heat wave in 0003 that caused massive coral bleaching and die-off.
The anti-immigrant base will die off, due to low fertility rates, health problems such as obesity and opioid addiction.
It's eerily reflective of Carson's warning on the massive die-off of multiple species as a result of pesticide use.
The researchers found that the die-off of the sunflower star matched the pattern of heat spreading through the ocean.
Often many coral will then die off, which in turn can adversely affect the fish that rely on the reefs.
The die-off shocked some residents of Maryland, which offers a favorable habitat to the eagles and enjoys a large population.
While employment in the coal sector has grown slightly since President Trump took office, coal burning has continued to die off.
The group will still exist, but the messages inside it will die off one by one as time marches ever-forward.
It's also unknown why some Martian storms stay relatively small and die off after a week, while others continue to grow.
As cooler weather descends on the United States, the fear surrounding a local spread of Zika has started to die off.
In 2011, more than half of the seagrass reportedly died off, and there are still damaged areas from that die-off.
In February, NOAA added that this year's monster El Niño was exacerbating the die-off which might not end until 2017.
However, the extent of the die-off had not been fully assessed until now, and was predicted to be less severe.
"The scale of die-off in California is unprecedented in our modern history," one Forest Service official told the L.A. Times.
California's expansive forests have experienced a profound tree die-off since 2010, exacerbated by a long drought between 2012 and 24.
A warming climate and unnaturally dense forests (wrought by forest mismanagement) have the potential to amplify this die-off, he noted.
California's expansive forests have experienced a profound tree die-off since 2010, exacerbated by a long drought between 2012 and 2015.
These tweaked males would be released into the wild to mate with females, but their larval babies would quickly die off.
Pete Wencel, a bayman who didn't go out on opening day, struggled with what the die-off will mean for him.
But, until the terms are final, Brexit exists more as an unravelling, a kind of die-off, of London's precious thickness.
On the other side of California, the tree die-off in the Sierra Nevada continues to worry firefighters and public officials.
Not to mention killing off nine name characters (counting that mean nun, who I realize was left to die off-screen).
Mosquitoes die off when the weather gets cooler, and the virus is not transmitted nearly as quickly by those that live.
He fears the woodland caribou—which have resided in Alberta since the last ice age—may die off within his lifetime.
Over the long term, Dr. Pekins doesn't expect the moose to die off completely, but there will be fewer of them.
Because the die-off coincided with the heat wave, they concluded that heat stress was the cause of the mass deaths.
What may seem like a manageable rate of deforestation could suddenly trigger a mass die-off within the rain forest's ecosystem.
Coral reefs will also be drastically affected, with between 1.53 and 90% expected to die off, including Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
The die-off, he said, came at the worst time of year, during the winter, when the animals' resistance is lower.
Like seagrasses, mangroves also sequester carbon, and during the die-off, millions of tons of carbon were released into the atmosphere.
When we see every character die off under that robot, we're seeing a model of how the game is in reality.
But the cause of the seal die-off is as yet unknown, said Julie Speegle, an Alaska spokeswoman for NOAA Fisheries.
Most die off in the winter and decompose, leaving behind a rich layer of organic matter that gradually sinks into the earth.
Connolly said that, as temperatures increase, reefs would eventually die off and be replaced with more stress-tolerant species such as seaweeds.
A gradual die-off is when 70 per cent of life on Earth is wiped out before things go back to normal.
Predict teams have investigated mysterious disease outbreaks in many countries, including a die-off of 3,000 wild birds in a Mongolian lake.
As the landscape evolves, Power says we may see certain brands die off, thus creating space for new players in the marketplace.
Paleontologists say the culprit for the die-off was possibly overhunting, or changes in mammoth's food supply after the last Ice Age.
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder where brain cells accumulate excessive amounts of a protein called alpha-synuclein and then die off.
Ten days later, pets and farm animals would die off while packs of big dogs would form to hunt down other animals.
According to Bayer-Wilfert, these are two separate issues, both DWV and Varroa can cause honeybees to die off at breakneck speed.
However, this sixth mass die-off is largely due to human activities, such as population growth, habitat destruction, pollution, and climate change.
The tree die-off may ultimately signal a transformation of California's forest ecosystems as a result of climate change, many scientists say.
Although it might seem that damage to the Great Barrier Reef mostly affects Australia, this die-off could affect the entire globe.
This suggests changes in temperature and other impacts are causing some types of microbes to die off, reducing the Earth's microbial diversity.
If the warm water temperatures persist, many corals can die off, with dire consequences for the marine ecosystems that depend on them.
When Dr. Steyaert learned of the reindeer die-off, he saw an opportunity to turn a tragedy into a grand natural experiment.
As reefs die off, researchers want to breed the world's hardiest corals in labs and return them to the sea to multiply.
We just don't know if this time around if this is one of those viruses that does die off in warmer weather.
"You're starting to see some of them die off, as their feet get wet," said Gene Albanese, a scientist with Mass Audubon.
When we're talking about peoples' skills and our workforce, a part of our current workforce is going to have to die off.
Maybe in a couple centuries or millennia, Brooklyners will retreat or die off, and Brooklyn as we know it ceases to exist.
Dr. Orth and his colleagues estimate that the seagrass die-off has eliminated more than 500 million juvenile blue crabs since 1991.
Still, the rising class of nonprofits is nowhere close to replacing what's been lost in the die-off of California news gathering.
At the moment, California has more than 100 million dead trees, a mass die-off driven by years of drought and insect infestations.
When these red and blue dinosaurs die off, they will not be replaced by new megafauna but rather a profusion of small scavengers.
Of course, those raises may not be proportional, and the effect seems to die off somewhere in the lower half of wage earners.
There aren't many companies with that amount of users that die off that often, and I don't expect Pandora to be the exception.
Because baby-boomers are starting to die off, the depopulation of rural areas is set to spike, reckons Shiro Koike of the NIPSSR.
Rabbits and rodents are especially susceptible to the bacteria, which can cause them to die off in large numbers when an outbreak occurs.
The great forest die-off is tied to a drying up of the deep, deep soil, up to some 220185 feet below ground.
California doesn't know how much water is required in every ecosystem before fish, birds, and the other species begin to die off catastrophically.
The news of the tree die-off inspired apprehension and a kind of fear — my dad said he was afraid to go back.
They're living in the Santa Fe house again — back in their "corral" — and the tree die-off wasn't as bad as they'd feared.
Because liver cells die off as time goes on, the question is never if you'll need a transplant, but when you'll need it.
Conservation scientist Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland, who's worked with saiga antelopes for 25 years, says the die-off was traumatic for field biologists.
Seventy percent of hardware start-ups die off or become "zombies" after raising outside funding, according to a new study from CB Insights.
In particular, higher temperatures cause the virus to die off faster, but dry conditions of low humidity can help it survive long term.
If their river is to be flooded and the fish they eat die off, they fear they will lose their way of life.
Bacteria and toxins also thrive in heat and wet conditions, which means more crops will not only become contaminated, but die off altogether.
In a span of less than two weeks in May, there was a widespread die-off of critically endangered saiga antelope throughout central Kazakhstan.
Doctors performed an exam and found that the bite was giving off pus, plus the tissue around his knee was starting to die off.
True, about a third of the birds are meant to die off as part of the survival of the fittest, according to local scientists.
Sones has seen similar cases before where small patches of mussels die off due to heat, but she has never witnessed something this extensive.
This was inevitable: Part of the story of generational change is that older generations die off and are replaced by their children and grandchildren.
Several labs used tissue samples collected from the carcasses during the die-off, and confirmed that the deaths were linked to bacterium Pasteurella multocida.
It's too early to say what the total mortality will be, but all signs are pointing to a coral die-off of unprecedented proportions.
Baby-boomers, the bumper generation born between the mid-260s and mid-19600s, possess much of this wealth, and are starting to die off.
Still, this die-off has surprised experts, because it has been going on for around a year and it covers such a vast area.
The die-off, meanwhile, that's created so much fuel is a symptom of the years-long drought that has parched the Western United States.
Pesticides are contributing to the die-off too, as are modern farming practices that emphasize single crop fields and inadvertently lead to bee malnutrition.
While corn and soybeans' shallow roots die off during the winter, Kernza's root system stretches up to 12 feet, helping it survive the cold.
But now the population is beginning to recover, though a large die-off occurred in 2010, potentially linked to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
"Maybe that older generation should just die off," says Umbanyamba Unenkhuu, who is running for office as a member of the National Labour Party.
So the next best thing is to at least have a record of the contents to look back on as these channels die off.
In 2015, Vietnam exported $6.6 billion worth of seafood, it is unclear to what extent this massive die-off will affect this year's exports.
Just eight million years after the end-Guadalupian die-off, intense volcanic eruptions pulverized what is now Siberia, creating the vast Siberian Traps formation.
None of the fish showed signs of lesions, parasites and infections, so the scientists concluded the die-off is connected with the heat wave.
In 2013, sea star wasting disease caused a massive die-off of multiple starfish species up and down the Pacific Coast of North America.
The mass die-off was reported in the megacity of Chongqing, in southwest China, which, in 2016, was home to over 30 million people.
In 2016, one-third of the 3,863 reefs in the Great Barrier Reef system went through a catastrophic die-off after an extreme heatwave.
The Cuban históricos —the most recalcitrant exiles of Fidel's generation—were beginning to die off, replaced by their children and by more recent immigrants.
So this die-off may not have been a mass extinction caused by an event such as a supernova, as previous research has suggested.
This constituency will continue to die off at a natural rate, but Latinos, blacks, immigrants, Muslims, women, LGTBQI, and the young will only grow.
Designed by Oxitec, a biotech company that sprang out of Oxford University, the mosquitoes are given a gene that causes them to die off.
But these concerns are largely based on a misunderstanding of the trial, which by design mean all of the released mosquitoes will die off.
" Maureen Fugar, 21, an administrative assistant and "League" fan in the Bronx, New York, told CNN Business, "Other massive multiplayer online games usually die off.
However, British Columbia scientists that looked into the 2015 die-off have flown to PEI to investigate the recent deaths of the six right whales.
While Furie was initially optimistic that Pepe's pro-Trump bent would die off, he began campaigning to rehabilitate the frog into a more positive figure.
This week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved a potential solution: moths genetically engineered to contain a special gene that makes them gradually die off.
"They [Peruvian authorities] have no idea how major the pollution is," Maruja Inquilla Sucasaca, who brought the die-off to Sefor's attention, told the AFP.
"We haven't seen a die-off of right whales like this where you have this many animals that have died in one location," said Wimmer.
Global Future's report makes much of the fact that the future is open for the simple reason that close-minded old people will die off.
The world is undergoing a mass die-off of amphibians, a particularly concerning trend given that frogs appeared to survive the dinosaur extinction just fine.
Warmer temperatures were a problem for endangered sockeye salmon and Chinook in the Columbia River when they suffered a serious die-off in 2015. 4.
While El Niño has passed its peak, scientists have warned that the global coral die-off, known as coral bleaching, is still far from over.
As with the demise of anything that was fun and no longer exists anymore, for these clubs to completely die off would be a shame.
Some of the coral will die off from increased disease susceptibility, but once ocean temperatures drop again, many of the corals will start growing back.
Ecologist Greg Dwyer tells Quammen about gypsy moths and how their populations sometimes die off due to eating a fungus on the leaves they eat.
Robin Lowenthal I now disregard news stories from unfamiliar sources, though formerly I would have trusted that a deliberately dishonest news outlet would die off.
Hundreds of thousands of murres died of apparent starvation in the northeastern Pacific Ocean earlier this year, the largest recorded die-off of the species.
The authorities are investigating the largest die-off of bald eagles in Maryland in three decades after 13 carcasses were found on the state's Eastern Shore.
The birds swoop into the mulch of the ocean, pass the "food" on to their young, and then, around the island, slowly, the birds die off.
Virtually no saigas in the afflicted group survived, and the die-off killed almost two-thirds of the entire global saiga population, according to the paper.
There were feedback loops in the climate system, like the albedo effect and water vapor increase in the atmosphere and plankton die-off in the oceans.
But by design, those mosquitoes and the ones developed by MosquitoMate are not able to reproduce and will die off, making the potential risks relatively low.
Today, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared the die-off to be an 'unusual mortality event,' which will trigger an investigation into the deaths.
Since January 2016, there has been an enormous, and to-date unexplainable, die-off of humpback whales, two times the historical average, off the Atlantic coast.
But Irons and Renner say this die-off is different in its scope and the persistence of the warm water blob that may have caused it.
"The scale of die-off in California is unprecedented in our modern history," Randy Moore, a forester for the U.S. Forest Service, told The L.A. Times.
A Vancouver aquarium that had its last two beluga whales die off in November will no longer be able to import or keep whales in captivity.
A variety of plant that thrives in one disease-prone area might die off in another where a different strain of the virus has taken hold.
In other words, the enormous die-off may have been especially severe because the volcanic plumes released into the atmosphere were heavily dosed with toxic halogens.
By 2018, UEFA's observers were starting to assume that goals from corners — at least in the highest levels of the game — were starting to die off.
The carbon release way back then occurred over 4,000 years — a relative blip on the geologic timescale — but caused a massive die off of marine organisms.
Our mission cannot be to eliminate impact, which would be impossible short of a human die-off, but to have the right kind of reduced impact.
The Great Barrier Reef has experienced devastating biodiversity losses in recent decades, as corals die off in the warming waters caused by human-driven climate change.
These algal toxins were also identified in dead sea birds — murres, fulmars and storm petrels — found during an unusual die-off in Alaska beginning in 2015.
Sure, researchers can scrutinize a mass die-off in the wild, for instance when a bacterial outbreak killed 200,000 saiga antelopes in central Kazakhstan in 2015.
Check out more videos from VICE: Women are the fastest growing segment of the veteran population and as older generations die off, that trend will continue.
"The scale of die-off in California is unprecedented in our modern history," Randy Moore, a forester for the US Forest Service, told the Los Angeles Times.
The problem isn't just that the total number of species is dropping, but also that we're losing unique evolutionary history, called phylogenetic diversity, as species die off.
"I think anything that's going to survive in the future needs to be adaptable … people who don't adapt, things that don't adapt, they die off," she said.
This is as far as the research predicts, but we can imagine what might happen next: Species die off in mass extinctions, and, maybe, we die too.
It's what happened 250 million years ago in the Great Dying, otherwise known as the P-T extinction event—the biggest mass die-off in Earth's history.
"They're just trying to slow the bleeding and allow it to die off naturally," explains a former employee who left the company after 8½ years last fall.
We'd seen the whole Pulp and Oasis thing die off, and pretty much given up on the entire idea of a band ever doing anything exciting again.
Scientists reported that the recent coral die-off at the Great Barrier Reef, a World Heritage site off the coast of Australia, was the worst ever recorded.
If we let the planet warm by 3.2 degrees Celsius, most species will find fewer places that hit their thermal sweet spot, and many will die off.
There was also a large seabird die-off across Alaska from 2015 through 2017, as well as mysterious whale deaths and increased reports of paralytic shellfish poisoning.
In addition to people, the peccaries are hunted by wild jaguars and puma, who will also die off if they lack for protein, Mr. García-Anleu said.
The type of die-off that would lead to a largely lifeless ocean has happened before, and we're well on our way to seeing it happen again.
The die-off will also allow for the easing of regulations against sewage dumping, and—needless to say—negate most of the public's antipathy toward oil spills.
"When the flowers die off people think they've killed it," said Mr. Hachadourian, who added that the plants can flower once a year if cared for properly.
The Great Barrier Reef suffered its most devastating die-off on record last year, according to a report from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies.
Political analysts said that until Thursday the PiS had adopted a wait-and-see approach on Kuchcinski, hoping the scandal would die off amidst the summer holiday lull.
And once the cells that encode particular memories die off from old age or dementia, it might be game over, no matter what kind of proteins you inject.
But on Friday, Barros noted that the Summer Games will be held in Brazil's winter, when the Aedes Aegypti mosquito that transmits the disease tends to die off.
The strongest El Niño on record—which has led to elevated temperatures in the equatorial Pacific and in other tropical ocean basins worldwide—is prolonging the die-off.
Earth's carbon dioxide goes up and down throughout the year when plants in the Northern hemisphere die off in the fall and then grow again in the spring.
The evolution of the virus may mean that the disease will become more apparent in some flocks, if birds begin to die off, making detection and control easier.
Researchers at the University of California, Davis, however, have now concluded that atmospheric rivers influenced a mass die-off of wild oysters in San Francisco bay in 2011.
"The latest bleaching has been the worst die-off ever recorded," Richard Vevers, founder of the Ocean Agency, a non-profit Australian group supporting the project, told Reuters.
Heather Renner, a supervisory biologist at the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, said the Whittier die-off is part of a much larger event that started in August.
There was swearing and crying, he said, but by the new year it had tapered off -- only to spike again on Inauguration Day, then quickly die off again.
Eventually we find mugwort but it's a dead plant (mugwort grows in the summer, matures in the autumn, and then starts to die off in winter, Osmond explains).
Unlike in every other mass die-off of animal species, these days bigger marine animals are more likely to die out than smaller species, a new study suggests.
But in 1989, as scientists at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station examined a gypsy moth die-off, they found that E. maimaiga was, in fact, the caterpillar killer.
More coral die-off is expected this year as elevated ocean temperatures cause corals to expel the algae they depend on for food, turn ghostly white, and starve.
From small islands facing a decline in tourism as coral reefs deteriorate to Germany seeing its famed forests die off, "we are talking about profound change", she noted.
Mild winters are unable to beat back invasive pests like the hemlock woolly adelgid, many of which will die off only at 4 or 5 degrees below zero.
So when below-zero temps and freezing rain arrived, calling for winter hats of the more utilitarian variety, we were sure that the bucket hat craze would die off.
Being extremely lonely can amount to a chronic medical condition, and it's one that is more likely to surface in later life as friends and family members die off.
The Forest Service, in a statement released Wednesday, blamed the tree die off on four years of consecutive drought, a "dramatic" rise in bark beetle infestation and warmer temperatures.
The continuing die-off of the world's coral reefs is a depressing reminder of the reality of climate change, but it's also something we can actively push back on.
In 2016, such a heating event contributed to the die-off of nearly 70 percent of shallow-water corals in a 430-mile area of the most pristine reef.
The past few decades have seen a massive die-off of amphibians, which scientists fear are some of the most vulnerable animals to losses in a rapidly changing world.
Ecologist and lead author of the study Brian Cheng was studying that exact population of oysters when the die off occurred, and immediately went to work investigating what happened.
While the new technique offers hope, the fact of the matter is the reef could completely die off by 2100 if human-induced global warming isn't kept in check.
Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency Friday as result of "a vast tree die-off throughout the state" and deteriorating forest conditions that have increased the risk of wildfires.
If a person had a genetic mutation that caused the cochlear hairs to die off, taking a drug like the one Edge is working on won't fix that problem.
Melott and his colleagues suggest that a factor in this die-off may have been exposure to muons, particles that are generated when cosmic radiation interacts with the atmosphere.
The bacteria naturally occur in the antelopes without causing a problem, said Richard Kock, of the Royal Veterinary College in London, who has been studying last year's die-off.
" The agency declared it an Unusual Mortality Event, defined as "a stranding that is unexpected; involves a significant die-off of any marine mammal population; and demands immediate response.
Born from the callousness of Formosa and the government's incompetence, #IChooseFish has been the online rallying cry for Vietnamese anger and protests stemming from the mass fish die-off.
But while that may sound like a tasty, if odd, phenomenon, scientists say that the mussel die-off is alarming and that the mollusks are a crucial "foundation" species.
But during a drought or extreme weather, if other food crops die off, people might need to consume more of it, on account of it being available and plentiful.
An underwater heat wave in Australian waters two years ago spurred a die-off of coral so severe that scientists say that reef will never look the same again.
But if the flor has begun to die off (a process that may be hastened by fortifying the wine to 17 percent), it is a candidate to become amontillado.
The die-off was catalogued by local volunteers who identified more than 350 carcasses that washed up on the shores of St. Paul Island in the northern Pacific Ocean.
Values get recalibrated as new ideas gain currency, old ideologies and their proponents die off, and polemics come to be seen as merely misguided business strategies for staying solvent.
Losses like this were reported across North America and in Europe, but no one knows exactly what caused the die-off that came to be called colony-collapse disorder (C.C.D.).
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Thursday declared the seal die-off an "unusual mortality event," a designation that allows extra resources to be used to determine the cause.
As Earth crosses certain key temperature thresholds, severe and far-reaching changes can unfold relatively rapidly, such as the collapse of ice sheets or the die-off of key ecosystems.
Another, shut in 2012, made 113,100 tons of CFC-11 in 11 months and dumped toxic waste, causing a die-off at nearby fish farms, according to a court verdict.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric  Administration on Thursday declared the seal die-off an "unusual mortality event," a designation that allows extra resources to be used to determine the cause.
And the same sort of damage is occurring again this year, part of an unprecedented back-to-back die-off that may leave large segments of the reef in ruins.
Huge sections of its most pristine parts were killed last year by overheated seawater, and now more southerly sections are bleaching, which is a potential precursor to another die-off.
In fact, an unparalleled forest die-off caused by bark beetles has already taken place in the Rocky Mountains, where below-zero bug killing temperatures, once common, have become rarer.
The conditions in recent years have led to a massive tree die-off, and scientists expect more woodlands to dry out across the West, contributing to larger, more destructive fires.
This toothy, piscean predator's discovery builds on an emerging picture of the recovery from life's nastiest die-off, one that suggests a dogged persistence of life in the wake of cataclysm.
While people loved CDs and the accompanying players, it wouldn't be until the early 2000s that the CD craze would die off, giving way to the MP3 and music streaming sites.
The doughnut chain from North Carolina perhaps overestimated its popularity in the local market, not sensing that the early hype was perhaps indicative of a fad — which would inevitably die off.
The software platform will live on at Fitbit, but the Vector brand will die off, as the team announced that there will be no new software or hardware updates going forward.
"The Beatles' original audience is aging and starting to die off," said Robert Rodriguez, co-host of the podcast "Something About the Beatles " and author of five books about the group.
I don't remember how often we showed up to do this, but it was just a necessity, like going on a hunting trip for food so our species didn't die off.
Take, for example, the species we rely on to pollinate our food crops, he pointed out: Colony collapse disorder has been a major concern for years now, as bees die off.
"Even if we did regenerate the cells with a drug, they would still be defective and would presumably die off because [the person] would still have the same mutation," Edge said.
If those cells die off and the embryo manages to self-correct, or if the abnormal cells wind up segregated in the placenta, the embryo may develop into a normal baby.
Brown had been stabbed three times, severely beaten, and left to die off old Liberty-Pickens Road in suburban Pickens County, the Greenville News reported in 2003, some 56 years later.
If they did, you would find yourself in a terrifyingly fecund primordial soup in which all sorts of ideas could develop, mutate, cross-pollinate, do battle, die off and be reborn.
The two bleaching events were the worst in recorded history, leading to a catastrophic die-off in many regions of the 2000,2250 individual reefs that comprise the world's largest reef system.
The bodies of the birds were discovered in February 2016 scattered on farmland in Federalsburg, Md., in the largest known die-off of bald eagles in the state in three decades.
When I first heard of it, I diminished it as a minor and simple video game that might gain some popularity and die off in the duration of a few months.
Microsoft hinted earlier this year that it's planning to kill off its Lumia smartphones, and recent rumors have suggested that the Lumia brand will die off towards the end of the year.
Almost a year ago, scientists confirmed that we're definitely in the early stages of a sixth mass extinction event—a very rapid die-off of species that could lead to ecological collapse.
While authorities continue to investigate the cause of the die-off, environmentalists say the answer is obvious: untreated sewage sludge that spills into the Coata as the river flows through urbanized areas.
On the other hand, when murres near the Farallon Islands off California had a population crash in 1983, some colonies almost vanished, and population growth was very slow after the die-off.
Microsoft hinted earlier this year that it's planning to kill off its Lumia smartphones, and recent rumors have suggested that the Lumia brand will die off toward the end of the year.
Research in the past year has pinned the die-off on Pasteurella multocida, a bacterium that commonly causes disease in water buffalo, cattle and bison (though not at such a deadly rate).
The trend with invasive insects from warmer climates indicates that bugs and plants that would typically die off during the coldest winter months, setting a limit on northern expansion limits, are surviving.
"If you can't look at it — that is, you can't [get to it] without going to substantial trouble — the brain itch will eventually die off because you can't scratch it," she said.
Not only did many of the adult corals die off, but for the first time, researchers observed a significant decline in new corals settling on the reef, compromising its capacity to recover.
It described a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 43 — a period well within the lifetime of our young readers.
With the older generations going to die off, the younger generations can help to solve problems with climate change and discrimination, as they were left with it when the older generation left.
Instead, because of the age imbalance between the parties, the GOP is shrinking due to die-off at a rate of around 110,000 Romney voters per year since the last election cycle.
Genomic analysis will continue to elucidate precisely how human-borne diseases contributed to the die-off, but suffice it to say, they likely had a significant effect on our ill-fated, bygone cousins.
The Alocasia is easily over-watered, so be careful to water only when the soil starts to dry out and know that the bottom leaves will always die off as new leaves grow.
In a system where the only thing that matters is who gets the most votes, smaller parties will enter into coalitions large enough to win the most votes, or they will die off.
The cultural phenomenon of Black Friday is radically changing as brick-and-mortar department store giants die off and online shopping becomes increasingly convenient and popular, the New York Times' Tiffany Hsu reports.
Not only would this take some pressure off the nutrient-loaded St. Lucie and Caloosahatchee, it'd bring additional freshwater to Florida Bay, where hypersaline conditions have resulted in an enormous seagrass die-off.
Click here to view original GIFEarlier this year, record warm ocean waters triggered a massive coral die off in the Great Barrier Reef, prompting a flurry of scientific research into the underlying cause.
It was only when the CD era started to die off that things took a turn for the worse, and big-box stores started getting into price wars that smaller players couldn't afford.
All your friends start robbing banks, criminals on TV seem really together and fulfilled, and you realize you'll never get a job with benefits because the boomers just won't fucking die off already.
Turning Points Turning Point: A landmark climate report from the United Nations described a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040.
"Some survive, some go under, but when there is heavy taxation some die off quicker ... this comes along and finishes them off," said Andreas Andreadis, head of the Greek tourism businesses association SETE.
After decades of accumulating damage, followed by a huge die-off in 2015 and 2016, some scientists say they believe half the coral reefs that existed in the early 20th century are gone.
Aside from the loss of a valuable ocean habitat, this die-off also meant the release of up to nine million tons of carbon dioxide, according to a paper published earlier this year.
But though it might seem odd for a politician to switch his party so soon after getting elected, this is yet another data point in a decades-long die-off of conservative white Democrats.
The suspected culprits for this massive die-off are many: For the past 100 years, increasing development in Florida has disrupted the balance of the Everglades through the construction of homes, industry and roadways.
During the past two years, Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef suffered its largest die-off ever recorded — with an average of 2000 percent of corals in one area declared dead, scientists said on Monday.
Image: AP Photo/Juan KaritaPeruvian authorities are scrambling to determine why thousands of critically endangered, Titicaca water frogs are washing up belly up, after an environmental group reported the mass die-off last week.
As ocean temperatures rise, and as waters absorb more carbon and turn acidic, marine life will struggle to adapt and may decline or die-off, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Nature.
At the end of the Permian period, global warming led to a mass die-off of high-latitude marine animals, while the cooling era of the Late Ordovician wiped out scores of equatorial species.
"Until I got involved in the Foundation's work, other than knowing from the Bible that there was a thing called leprosy where your limbs would die off, I knew nothing about this," he said.
The latest: a startling analysis from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicting terrible food shortages, wildfires and a massive die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040, unless governments take strong action.
The highly pathogenic variant has only been reported in China's southeastern Guangdong province and will become more apparent in some flocks if birds begin to die off, making detection and control easier, FAO said.
Norris and Inglehart suggest that the dependence of the populist right on older voters may lead to its steady decline as those voters die off, but they are not confident that this will happen.
But in the resulting fossil record, scientists found proof that after each die-off over time, white-throated rails would repopulate the island and re-evolve into the flightless Aldabra rails that are now thriving.
New simulations made possible by higher-powered computers suggest that cloud cover over oceans may die off altogether once a certain level of CO2 has been reached, accelerating warming and contributing to a vicious cycle.
The population has fluctuated over time, Dr. Carman said, possibly after a "wasting disease" infected the local eelgrass population, causing much of the grass to die off and leaving the clinging jellyfish without enough habitat.
Late last year, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared the third-ever global coral bleaching event, affecting corals in every tropical ocean, and declared that the die-off was being prolonged by El Niño.
The Aedes aegypti is the species that transmits both Zika and dengue, but the Oxitec version carries a gene that causes them to die off before they can develop into flying, biting, disease-spreading adults.
Instead of staging a mass die-off from flu as Emily St. John Mandel brilliantly imagined in "Station Eleven," Ruta is realistic: There are no scrambles to a shelter, no messy survivors, no lingering horrors.
"If that happens and you suddenly have a vine that's only putting out only white leaves, then eventually, as the old leaves die off, there's nothing producing green anymore and it can't live," says McCracken.
"The die-off in 1995 should have been a wake-up call," said Matt Vincent, the chief executive of the unified Butte-Silver Bow County government, who wants the mining companies to solve the problem.
But global warming puts Ningaloo at risk of a die-off, according to the United Nations report, and rising sea levels may also reduce the reef's capacity to protect coastal communities from waves and erosion.
We'd die off Canada's population was at 35,151,728 in 2016, according to Statistics Canada, an increase of 5 percent from 23, with two-thirds of that coming from immigration and one-third coming from fertility.
Even as people marveled at the idea that an entire group of animals could unceremoniously die off, as evidenced by fossils found on the American frontier, they were accelerating contemporary extinctions on the very same land.
SYDNEY, Australia — Scientists surveying the Great Barrier Reef said Tuesday that it had suffered the worst coral die-off ever recorded after being bathed this year in warm waters that bleached and then weakened the coral.
But when a person harboring tens of thousands of Loa loa worms in each drop of blood takes ivermectin, all the baby worms die off in a sort of mass extinction, causing potentially lethal brain swelling.
The lawsuit cites the EPA's own recognition in 2015, amid a major salmon die-off in the Northwest that year, of the "critical" need to lower river temperatures in the face of human-caused global warming.
This is a crucial moment for Iran as revolutionary leaders die off and competition heats up between hard-liners with a strict anti-Western Islamic ideology and pragmatists who back the nuclear deal and international engagement.
We know that, about 15 million years ago, some extremely bad stuff happened, because almost everything on Earth that was alive at that time died very quickly, taking only a few million years to die off.
Destruction of surface vegetation, and the resulting die-off of the life below, released 248 million tonnes of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere in 2016, according to estimates by the Climate Observatory, a Brazilian conservation group.
These breeds were to die off as the "tea party" Republicans took over the Republican Party, imposing conservative purity and strict religious belief requirements, while the "progressives" transformed the Democratic Party into something more Sandanista than Jacksonian.
But teen vaping is obviously going to get the most media attention as traditional tobacco companies continue to pivot to vaping as a means of shoring up profits that may be lost as older smokers die off.
Gleick said that when those conditions change, large numbers of animals can die off — something that happened twice during the state's recent drought when high water temperatures killed 95% of the Chinook salmon in the Sacramento River.
While Virgin Group founder Richard Branson has said that the 9-to-5 work week will eventually die off, he believes that people will instead "work smarter, not longer" as more technology is implemented in various industries.
The global vaccine coverage goals are crucial because diseases can't infect or spread through vaccinated people — so if enough people are vaccinated, a pathogen won't be able to find a new host and will eventually die off.
That analysis' findings dovetail with other research that has predicted the mass die-off of coral reefs around the planet by the year 2050, as waters warm and exceed the tolerance level of many coral reef systems.
A study conducted by the University of Exeter confirms that, as a result of a strong El Niño in 2016, an increase in surface ocean temperatures has led to a major coral die-off in the Maldives.
He said the die-off was "almost certainly" the largest ever recorded anywhere because of the size of the Barrier Reef, which at 348,000 sq km (134,400 sq miles) is the biggest coral reef in the world.
Around 1997, a mass die-off of 100 individuals is believed to have occurred near the Cap Blanc Peninsula of Western Sahara, after dinoflagellate plankton caused a toxic red-tide (or algal bloom) to flood the area.
The cost will be measured in trillions of dollars and in sweeping societal and environmental damage, including mass die-off of coral reefs and animal species, flooded coastlines, intensified droughts, food shortages, mass migrations and deeper poverty.
More southerly sections around the middle of the reef that barely escaped then are bleaching now, a potential precursor to another die-off that could rob some of the reef's most visited areas of color and life.
A future paleontologist would struggle to find a bone bed or other signs of an instant die-off, "because the square footage of animals isn't very big compared to the square footage of the world," Dr. Johnson said.
Australia recently pledged $379 million to save the Great Barrier Reef following findings that an oceanic heat wave in 2016 had caused around a third of the reef to die off, though researchers concluded the harm was irreversible.
The imperial family presently has less than 20 members, and experts worry that that number will continue to dwindle as the older generations die off and Akihito's four grandchildren, three of which are female, marry outside the family.
Unless we do a better job of increasing access to effective treatment, overdose deaths will remain at record high levels and we'll have to wait for this generation to die off before the crisis comes to an end.
Click here to view original GIFWhen climate change is in the news, it's usually because of a scary new temperature record or a mass coral die-off, or because an enormous chunk of Greenland disappeared and nobody noticed.
Modern Medicine Will Die Off If We Try To Cut Into Their ProfitsIn one of the most telling moments of the hearing, the executives were asked by Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) what exactly kept them up at night.
SYDNEY, Australia — An underwater heat wave that damaged huge sections of Australia's Great Barrier Reef two years ago spurred a die-off of coral so severe that scientists say the natural wonder will never look the same again.
Bees are continuing to die off in great numbers across the US, with rates increasing over the past year to a loss of 44.1 percent of all honeybee colonies, according to the preliminary results of a new study.
I don't want to see every internal combustion racing series die off, but there should be room to test out EVs as a support series, similar to how Formula E will run a driverless series, Roborace, next season.
Their finding of the die-off in the reef's north is a major blow for tourism at reef which, according to a 2013 Deloitte Access Economics report, attracts about A$5.2 billion ($3.9 billion) in spending each year.
I wondered how younger Russians would react to a U.S. diplomat openly expressing the hope that their grandparents and parents would die off as quickly as possible and so open the path to an American vision of progress.
She said climate change will likely hurt coral's ability to reproduce for the foreseeable future, so SEZARC is studying how to breed coral in aquariums to have backup species in the event of a massive coral die-off.
Why is it that some towns end up like Huacahuasi — communities that thrive and evolve with the help of public and private investments coupled with tourist dollars — while others simply die off or do not change at all?
"I really don't think it will die off, and I think it's great because we don't want tennis to be boring," said John Millman, the Australian who lost to Shapovalov in the first round of the French Open.
Those who acquire the skills and proprietary algorithms to re-engineer brains, bodies and minds — the main products of the 21st century, Harari suspects — will become gods; those who don't will be rendered economically useless and die off.
In Missouri, above-average rainfall caused a crop-destroying fungus to grow on trees while in Oregon, higher summer temperatures in 2017 and 2018 caused a mass die-off of thousands of trees, reports local NBC affiliate KGW8.
Amritsar Punjab PAKISTAN New Delhi INDIA Bangladesh Arabian Sea Bay of Bengal SRI LANKA 500 Miles By The New York Times As eyewitnesses die off, however, there has been a push in recent years to record their recollections.
Image: Steve Davis"It's a concern because we know some of these areas were showing signs of recovery," following a die-off in the summer of 2015 that was triggered by overheated ocean waters and hyper-salinity, he added.
But to take just one aspect here: Remember, one of the underlying causes of this die-off is that California's forests have become incredibly dense — when drought hits, there are too many trees in need of already scarce water.
According to a new study published in PLOS ONE, there's been a mass die-off of tufted puffins and crested auklets on St. Paul Island, one of the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea, off the coast of Alaska.
The trial should be pretty low risk, since all of the mosquitoes released are designed to die off, and the location is on Key Haven: a small island off of Key West, which is geographically confined by the ocean.
In the wake of a recent United Nations report that says the coral reefs may die off as soon as 2040, traveling to Storm King Art Center to see an exhibition about climate change may not sound like fun.
But increasing salinity of the water throughout the region has set off a chain reaction: In recent years, harvesters from other bays have encountered the same die-off, and have started to poach from the waters of Cedar Key.
Story at a glance Researchers estimate that up to 1 million seabirds died over the Pacific Ocean in just less than 12 months in an unprecedented mass die-off that is believed to be driven by warming ocean waters.
Image: Gergely Torda for ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef StudiesIt's no secret that the Great Barrier Reef is in the midst of a mass die-off, nor that scientists believe the coral bleaching event is related to climate change.
Thanks to a strong El Niño climate event and human-made global warming, the coral die-off around the world could continue into 2017, making it the longest such event on record, NOAA said in an emailed statement on Feb. 23.
That report "describes a world of worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040—a period well within the lifetime of much of the global population," according to the New York Times.
The old canon of white, male rock music is continuing to slowly die off, taking the very concept of the album with it and clearing the way for new voices that are unencumbered by the tastes and prejudices of previous generations.
It was unlikely that human hunting contributed to the sudden die-off, the authors wrote, because there's only a single site of human occupation on Wrangel Island, and archaeological evidence shows the campsite was used for hunting marine mammals and geese.
Australia's management of the Great Barrier Reef has come under sustained criticism amid the biggest ever coral die-off as a result of the strongest El Nino in 20 years, a weather event scientists say is exacerbated by climate change.
However, Slice Intelligence analyst Ken Cassar expects at least half of meal-kit companies to die off following Blue Apron's market debut on Thursday, and the acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon, which is expected to close later this year.
And while we're now more-or-less positive a meteor collided with Earth near the Yucatán Peninsula and created the Chicxulub crater, triggering a mass die off of many of Earth's species, it turns out their deaths weren't exactly swift.
What did show a strong correlation with the die-off in 2015 — as well as two similar events in 1981 and 1988 — were the average relative humidity and average minimum temperatures in the 10 days leading up to mass mortality.
"It's just one thing on top of another," said Dr. Richard Kock, a professor of wildlife health and emerging diseases at the Royal Veterinary College in London who, with colleagues, concluded that climate change had contributed to the Kazakhstan die-off.
Two-thirds of pregnant female antelopes give birth to twins, and although the species plummeted to a low of 50,000 saiga in the 1990s, it rebounded with conservation efforts, reaching several hundred thousand by the time of the Kazakhstan die-off.
Last year, one study found that flying insect populations in German nature reserves declined by more than 75% over the duration of a 27-year study, meaning that the die-off is happening even beyond areas affected by human activity.
Its shores are littered with the bones of dead fish and birds—biologists have attributed the die-off partly to parasites in the water—and the air often smells of rotten eggs, the result of high levels of hydrogen sulfide.
The whale was the latest victim of what scientists are calling an "unprecedented die-off" of the endangered species in the Gulf of St. Lawrence since early June — and part of a larger pattern of "unusual mortality events" involving whales in recent years.
Olympics organizers and Brazilian officials have gone on the offensive over the past week to try to quell fears over the mosquito-borne disease, arguing that the Summer Games will take place in August, Brazil's winter, when the mosquitoes tend to die off.
"Whenever you see a die-off like this of a long-lived animal, it can be a canary in a coal mine," said Daniel Gonzalez-Socoloske, a tropical mammal ecologist at Andrews University, a small private college located in Berrien Springs, Michigan.
I've never been a very good shot, and I haven't quite grasped the building mechanic, so the best survival strategy for me has been to find a really good spot away from everyone else, and wait for other players to die off.
Lewis's testimony urging lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote against Sessions underscores the power that comes from being an eyewitness to history — and highlights how much is being lost as the leaders in the long fight for equal rights die off.
Here is a map of how the die-off has progressed over the last four years: State fire officials are well aware that these trees pose an immense fire hazard, but controlling them is not as simple as cutting them all down.
Related: The World's Coral Reefs Are Undergoing a Massive Die-Off Emissions from the $17 billion Carmichael coal mine, which includes a 100-mile-long rail line and one of the world's largest coal ports, Abbot Point, are projected to be huge.
As little creatures like pteropods, a type of plankton, and oysters die off, the potential for a catastrophic ripple reaching the top of the food chain grows—which could ultimately mean no more tuna poke bowls, swordfish skewers, or whitefish salad-loaded bagels.
The lawsuit cited instances of ocean acidification linked to an oyster die-off in shellfish hatcheries in the Pacific Northwest, and to severe erosion in the shells of tiny plankton at the base of the marine food chain in waters off California.
The data undermines the widely held theory that only animals and plants living at the edges (southern in the Northern Hemisphere, northern in the Southern Hemisphere) of a habitat will be most affected by rising temperatures, causing them to die off or migrate.
Related: The World's Coral Reefs Are Undergoing a Massive Die-Off In order to assess how climate change was altering the likelihood of bleaching, the scientists looked at the impact of atmospheric warming on ocean temperatures at — or close to — the surface.
In woods behind the school, where Mr. Sutter had his students scout out a nature trail, he showed them the preponderance of emerald ash borers, an invasive insect that, because of the warm weather, had not experienced the usual die-off that winter.
Without doing so, nearly all of the world's coral reefs are expected to die off, an additional 61 million people will deal with extreme droughts across the world's cities, and 70 percent of the world's coastlines will shrink under rising sea levels.
As these people die off, he theorizes, the GOP will emerge fresh, buoyed by a young class of thinkers who have gotten past all of these racial hangups: While most of the crazy progressives are young, most of the crazy conservatives are old.
At the end of the great Mac-Windows wars of the 1990s, when Microsoft had its boot on Apple's neck, Bill Gates' company suddenly realized it was better off buying a piece of Apple, and supporting the Mac, than letting the company die off altogether.
When something goes awry—in my case, with the introduction of round after round of destructive antibiotics—and the balance there is shifted, beneficial bacteria (the "probiotics" you find in all those trendy kombucha and kefir drinks) die off and pathogenic bacteria begin to multiply.
The apocalyptic report describes a world of devastating food shortages, ravaging wildfires, and widespread die-off of coral reefs and other wildlife—and, most chillingly, it asserts that these changes will occur sooner than anticipated, playing out over the course of the next few decades.
Instead, this form of transmission is probably a survival mechanism, allowing the Zika virus to persist through winters and dry spells when adult mosquitoes die off, said the author, Dr. Robert B. Tesh, a pathologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
In 2002, the Israeli government announced plans to build an official museum for the Jewish soldiers who served in World War II. But the museum has yet to open, mired in bureaucratic wrangling, as the few Jewish war veterans still alive continue to die off.
If that — and the massive number of lives at risk — was widely understood, the country would not have a president prematurely entertaining an end to social distancing, or other politicians talking about letting our older generations die off for the sake of the economy.
As they spent days working through a stretch of ocean off the Australian state of Queensland, Dr. Cantin and his colleagues surfaced with sample after sample of living coral that had somehow dodged a recent die-off: hardy survivors, clinging to life in a graveyard.
At least 5 people in China have disappeared, gotten arrested, or been silenced after speaking out about the coronavirus — here's what we know about themMore than 100 wild animals in China died from poisoning in a mass die-off seemingly triggered by coronavirus disinfectant
This week, scientists from the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies reported that the reef had suffered the worst coral bleaching and die-off ever recorded, with stretches of its northern reaches dead after the coral was bathed in warm summer waters.
Until recently, films like these had seemed to die off, revived only in the past year or two by the flexibility and risk that a company like Netflix, with its deep pockets and relatively low overhead, is willing to take on mid-budget movies.
These fossilized organisms lived in a time of ecological upheaval and transition; defined both by the rapid, spectacular diversification of complex animal life known as the Cambrian explosion, as well as the first major die-off in known evolutionary history, the end-Ediacaran extinction event.
This is the first study to argue that the mass die-off that happened at the end of the Cretaceous Period was as rapid and devastating not only around the world, but also at the Earth's polar regions, according to a statement by the University of Leeds.
In 2015 and 2016, the Great Barrier Reef suffered its largest die-off ever recorded due to unusually warm waters, with 35 percent of corals on the northern and central reef declared dead, the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies said in late May.
The traditional Old Gods, with mythological roots from around the world, fear irrelevance as their believers die off or are seduced by the shiny New Gods, like Media (Gillian Anderson) and Technical Boy (Bruce Langley), who represent our obsessions with technology, celebrity, money and pop culture.
"Finally, immutability implies permanence, and there's no guarantee that ledger records created and kept on chain will last, even with lots of copies around, because of technological obsolescence and the fact that incentives to keep the system going may die off after a time," she said.
In 23.2 and 29.8, the Great Barrier Reef suffered its largest die-off ever recorded due to unusually warm waters, with 35 percent of corals on the northern and central reef declared dead, the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies said in late May.
If you think about it, it becomes clear why: When you make it available to a large number of people, the next thing that happens is a large die-off of nodes that didn't have enough friends at the start or whose friends weren't active enough.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Warm seas around Australia's Great Barrier Reef have killed two-thirds of a 700-km (435 miles) stretch of coral in the past nine months, the worst die-off ever recorded on the World Heritage site, scientists who surveyed the reef said on Tuesday.
In particular, the Betpak-Dala saiga population in central Kazakhstan, which was hit hardest by the epidemic, grew from 31,000 after the die-off to 36,000 by April, said Steffen Zuther, who coordinates the Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative, a large-scale conservation program in central Kazakhstan.
An example of an endarkic collective is harder to imagine, but might look something like the famed Lykova family, who lived alone in Siberia for 40 years, never competing against one another, but each, presumably, capable of surviving if the others were all to die off.
Here's How He Fits In. A landmark report from the United Nations released Monday said the consequences of climate change could be far more dire and arrive sooner than anticipated: food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040.
This mass die-off is "in the same category with the other major mass extinctions," according to a new paper in the journal Historical Biology that outlined the findings of several studies into the end-Guadalupian, and countered recent research that downplays the severity of the event.
But the relentless pileup of sequels made it clear that the fight was never anything more than an exhausting delaying action, and the best humanity could hope for was to keep a few key personnel alive long enough to ensure humanity would only mostly die off.
There was no way to store/keep ice from the previous winter and there probably wouldn't have been any need or desire to have ice cream, as the early colonists at Plymouth had just watched half their number die off and New England late autumns weren't all that warm.
SYDNEY, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Warm seas around Australia's Great Barrier Reef have killed two-thirds of a 700-km (435 miles) stretch of coral in the past nine months, the worst die-off ever recorded on the World Heritage site, scientists who surveyed the reef said on Tuesday.
The die-off comes as the world's human population is expected to grow from 7 billion in 2010 to 9.8 billion in 2050; as incomes rise, food producers will need to supply 56 percent more calories to meet growing demand, according to a December report by the World Resource Institute.
But political discourse was jolted, last fall, by the release of the a landmark report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, warning that without profound reform, a warming climate could lead to food shortages, wildfires and a die-off of coral reefs much sooner than previously thought.
But Mr. Fielden is also fashion fluent (he edited Men's Vogue, working with Anna Wintour, until that magazine closed in the great magazine die-off of 2008 and 2009), as well as literary (he edited articles by the likes of George Plimpton at his first magazine stop, The New Yorker).
Bay scallops come into season tomorrow, and if the harvest from Long Island doesn't look promising on account of a warm-water die-off this summer, the baymen in Massachusetts seem hopeful, and their delicious little maritime gummy bears should show up in the cases of your fancier fishmongers sometime this week.
In a study published today in Science Advances, researchers presented a preliminary account of the cause of the mysterious die-off: Bacteria called Pasteurella multocida, which seem normally to exist harmlessly in saigas' tonsils, somehow invaded their guts, poisoning their blood and breaking down their organs, leading to death within a few hours.
But in the summer of 2016 — the same summer that the Great Barrier Reef experienced one of the worst bleaching events in history — extreme heat, drought and low sea levels led to an unprecedented die-off of mangroves in the Gulf of Carpentaria, in which about 6 percent of the forest was lost.
Anthropocene Park is truly a strange world in which people fly all over to see rare or declining animals and plants, emitting the greenhouse gases that may make those animals and plants extinct — an estimated 10 percent of land species may die off as a result of climate change, as Thomas notes.
It could very well get smaller and smaller as its last dinosaurs like Metallica and U2 die off and the genre will exist on the fringes as a mere touchstone that popular artists pay homage to, like when a rapper samples an old jazz song or when Jack White pretends to play the blues.
Remove that protection, expose them to the same exertions and activities, make them soldiers and sailors and enginedrivers and dock labourers, and will not women die off so much younger, so much quicker, than men that one will say, 'I saw a woman to-day', as one used to say, 'I saw an aeroplane'.
They took a large pink boat emblazoned with the words "Tell The Truth" to Oxford Circus, staged a "die-in" at the Natural History Museum to bring attention to the mass die-off of species, barricaded roads, locked and glued themselves to the Waterloo Bridge, climbed on top of trains, and sat in trees in Parliament Square.
In October, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the global organization for climate data, released a major report predicting that some of the worst effects of climate change — including coastal flooding, food shortages and a mass die-off of coral reefs — could come to pass as soon as 2040 if human greenhouse gas emissions continue at current levels.
Harvard cognitive scientist Steven Pinker, who had attended gatherings with Epstein, told the Times that Epstein had more or less advocated letting the impoverished die off because of "overpopulation":At one session at Harvard, Mr. Epstein criticized efforts to reduce starvation and provide health care to the poor because doing so increased the risk of overpopulation, said Mr. Pinker, who was there.
The Academy isn't a single, monolithic entity Plenty of stories will say this is all due to the demographics of the Academy itself — 93 percent white and 76 percent male, per a 2013 Los Angeles Times survey — while the industry trades that help shape the nominee rosters shrug off responsibility and say things can't improve until current members die off.
In the years since the case was filed, the sense of urgency about the need to address climate change has only grown, with reports like the one last year from the United Nations climate panel that projected dire consequences without vigorous action, including worsening food shortages and wildfires, and a mass die-off of coral reefs as soon as 2040.
"The coral die-off has caused radical changes in the mix of coral species on hundreds of individual reefs, where mature and diverse reef communities are being transformed into more degraded systems, with just a few tough species remaining," Andrew Baird, study co-author at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University, said in a statement.
This is What a Mass Die-off of Earth&aposs Coral Reefs Looks LikeEarlier this week, we learned that Earth's coral reefs are in the midst of a massive dieoff,…Read more ReadLangdon is currently involved with an effort to identify genetic variants of coral that are more resistant to acidification, with the hope that we can breed strains that'll fare better in the harsher world we're creating.
As the film depicts, it is feared by some American Hmong that the ceremonies will decline and die off as younger generations become Americanized: "This new generation, if they feel hurt, if they feel any pain, the new generation will probably take it [sic] to the hospital," explains Paja's high school-aged son in the film, as the camera cuts to Paja chanting over a still-breathing bird.
If we stopped immigration, we would literally start to die off as a population, which would lead to a whole host of problems, such as: Economy will tank "Immigrants are the economically active part of the population," said Arne Ruckert, a researcher at the University of Ottawa's Institute of Population, pointing out that many immigrants are in the 19–45 age range, who contribute to the work force.
A quick Google News search of the tell-tale tagline "This story was generated by Automated Insights" reveals hits from news outlets across the U.S. In a news release heralding the financial commitment, Press Association Editor-in-Chief Peter Clifton called the move a "genuine game-changer," stressing that the partnership will focus on stories that might not otherwise be written up as local newspapers continue to die off in this massive fourth-estate extinction.
It has everything but a happy ending: a bucolic setting concealing fortune and danger; poor but proud locals who've endured sequential boom-bust cycles of resource extraction (Prosperity is a neighboring town ravaged by long-wall mining); tough, reluctant victim-heroes; grisly scenes of animal die-off; and courtroom drama, as a tenacious husband-wife legal team takes on the industry and the state, wins one important case but can't outlast its adversaries' moneyed obstructionism.
As a result, it has the potential to wreak havoc on the country's horse-breeding operations, said Elizabeth Kilgallon, an associate veterinarian at Miller and Associates, which runs a mares-only quarantine center in Brewster, N.Y. "It's not something that is going to make them die, or cause a widespread global die-off of horses, but it's one of those persistent and low-level economic loss-type things that certainly we can't allow to enter the horse industry," Dr. Kilgallon said.

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