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"The quality of life for thousands of people in this area would be degraded by this expansion, " she said.
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These broadcasts will likely be degraded, even lost, said the panel for one to three days because of disturbances in the ionosphere.
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Emergency responders like the ones who are here today -- their ability to help communities respond to and recover from disasters will be degraded.
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Emergency responders like the ones who are here today their ability to help communities respond to and recover from disasters will be degraded.
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Thus a recent U.N. report predicts that 98 percent of Indonesia's natural rainforest will be degraded or lost within the next 15 years, in large part because of the planting of palm trees for the production of the biofuel palm oil.
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As Global Biodiversity Outlook 3 warns, ecosystems are approaching tipping points beyond which they will be irreversibly degraded, with long-term consequences for all life on earth, including humans.
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Without a stable climate, addressing other environmental threats will be impossible, ensuring a future of more degraded water and land.
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We all should be embarrassed at the way national defense has been degraded to a political football.
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The retrofitting of existing equipment, much of it badly degraded in the course of a decade of war, will be stretched out or abandoned altogether.
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And if Afghanistan's desperately degraded agricultural systems, particularly its use of water, were ever to be modernised, the violent tussle for resources might end anyway.
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The more that ecosystems become degraded, the UN says, the greater the risk that they will be pushed "over the edge" into a new stable state of much less utility to humankind.
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