A. Objectives. The goal of this reform is to deliver on the President's directives to (1) streamline our guidance for Federal awards to ease administrative burden and (2) strengthen oversight over Federal funds to reduce risks of waste, fraud, and abuse.
Rising population growth can lessen our quality of life because it: 1  destroys resources, such as water and forests, needed to sustain us. 2  slows the dynamics of a healthy economy. 3  decreases the level of biodiversity upon which we depend.  read 1  article. learn more.  get 1  involved. educator resources.
The combined influence of deforestation, fire and climate change. The first Met Office global climate model to include the response of vegetation had shown the possibility of extensive forest loss from one factor: climate change from increasing greenhouse gases alone (Cox et al.ire frequency and intensity is affected by both human activity and climate, with consequences for forest. The forest density may in turn affect fire activity by suppressing grass fuels, a feedback which can in principle allow abrupt change between forest and savannah.