Reducing open collections of water through environmental modification is the preferred method of control, given the concerns of negative health effect from insecticides and greater logistical difficulties with control agents.
22.
If environmental modification were part ( and necessarily a major part ) of taking, as the Secretary maintains, one would have expected the list to include " plows, bulldozers, and backhoes ."
23.
Several United Nations treaties, including the Fourth Geneva Convention, the 1972 World Heritage Convention and the 1977 Environmental Modification Convention have provisions to limit the environmental impacts of war or military activities.
24.
But the text of the amendment cannot possibly bear that asserted meaning, when placed within the context of an Act that must be interpreted ( as we have seen ) not to prohibit private environmental modification.
25.
The term bioengineering may also be applied to environmental modifications such as surface soil protection, slope stabilization, watercourse and shoreline protection, windbreaks, vegetation barriers including noise barriers and visual screens, and the ecological enhancement of an area.
26.
In July 1974, US and USSR agreed to hold bilateral discussions on measures to overcome the danger of the use of environmental modification techniques for military purposes and three subsequent rounds of discussions in 1974 and 1975.
27.
Presumably it would apply the same reasoning to all the other defects of the regulation : the regulation's failure to require injury to particular animals survives the present challenge, because at least some environmental modifications kill particular animals.
28.
Tunisia is a party to the following international agreements : Biodiversity, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution ( MARPOL 73 / 78 ) and Wetlands.
29.
There can be many such energy bands in a material, depending on the atomic number { number of electrons ( if the atom is neutral ) } and their distribution ( besides external factors like environmental modification of the energy bands ).
30.
Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
