Sentences with phrase «as human population»

As the human population continues to grow, so would the demand for food.

In fact, as the human population keeps snowballing into unsustainable figures, real estate will only be more scarce and in greater demand.

by Brandon Leibowitz - As human population grows around the world wide so is internet users.

As the human population of Southern California has grown, the wildlife population has been divided into pockets in preserves and parks.

what are we, as the human population, going to do about it?

As the human population rockets past 7 billion, natural habitats are increasingly lost.

As the human population grows, the planet is buckling under the pressure of our needs.

Boundaries which through much of human history seemed remote if they were thought of at all now are being felt acutely in some places and increasingly will be felt acutely more broadly, as both human population and resource consumption grows.

In short, tree densities usually plummet as the human population increases.

As the human population continues to grow, the consumption of our natural resources and the pollution in the form of used materials, chemicals and emissions increase.

As the human population continues to grow, the effects of climate change and rapid development increasingly threaten and destroy agricultural lands vital to feed the 7.3 billion people now inhabiting...

With or without the threat of human - caused climate disruption, it's clear the world lacks the menu of energy options it will require to avoid trouble as the human population heads toward 9 billion people (more or less), all seeking a decent life.

As I wrote recently, PBS is running «Earth a New Wild,» a engaging series in which the conservation biologist M. Sanjayan reveals opportunities for sustaining biological diversity and dynamics even as human population and consumption pressures rise.

However, human population are growing quickly and at first can coexist with other animals and plants, but as human population are growing more they take away other animals and plants habitate and overcusumpt them, let them exitinct one by one.

As the human population heads toward 9 billion, more or less, with most of the growth coming in struggling places, unless more is done to boost resilience to known hazards — earthquakes included — there will be ever more wrenching imagery like that out of China (and Myanmar, as well).

You are right that now our human just born as the human population and impact on the ecosystem, make so many animals becoming endanger species.

Libby's article speaks volumes about the difficulty of moving a world that is more than 80 percent dependent on fossil fuels toward one largely free of carbon dioxide emissions from such fuels within two or three generations, even as the human population heads toward 9 billion (more or less).

This all relates to what has become a recurring theme on Dot Earth: figuring out how to avoid loving special places to death as the human population and economy grow, and ever more people have the wherewithal to go places and see things.

That storyline goes like this: «In the not - too - distant future, the world around is falling to ruin, as the human population shrinks to an all - time low.

Sadly, the population of stray and homeless animals is just as dense as its human population, which is why the work being done at Animal Aid Unlimited is so very important.

The result of this is a threefold whammy: 1) unlicensed activities continue at the same rate (or increase as the human population increases); 2) a significant number of pet owners who want to be law - abiding citizens give up banned breeds, quit feeding neighborhood cats or terminate valuable breeding programs rather than operate illegally or cope with unreasonable laws and increased fees; and 3) because demand for many beloved breeds does not decline when a law is passed, people who know little about breeds or breeding move into the void to fill demand.

As the human population continues to grow, it's only natural more and more dogs will become pets as well.

«As our human population continues to rise, so do our chances of encountering wildlife.

The couple and their friends must fight for survival as the human population is being decimated...

As the human population ages, the understanding of the health concerns that this group is faced with has become increasingly important.

As the human population in West Africa has grown, people have increasing contact with wildlife, which has aided the spread of zoonotic diseases.

As the human population climbs, these cumulative changes will ultimately affect our economies and our well - being, because natural ecosystems perform — free of charge — many functions which we take for granted, such as purification of our wastes, production of harvestable resources, regulation of our climate, and restoration of the oxygen that we breathe.»

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, together with an international team from across the United States and Europe, have found evidence which challenges the belief that a type of technology known as Levallois — where the flakes and blades of stones were used to make useful products such as hunting weapons — was invented in Africa and then spread to other continents as the human population expanded.

«Our findings challenge the theory held by many archaeologists that Levallois technology was invented in Africa and spread to Eurasia as the human population expanded.

As human population increases more pressure will be placed on our oceans for seafood protein.

As the human population grows and farmers invade the forests with slash - and - burn methods to find fertile soil to raise cotton and corn, they run into a big problem: hungry elephants who love to raid their fields and gobble down the crops.

But as human population expands and subsistence farming gives way to mechanized agriculture, food production has become reliant on fossil fuel and fertilizers to increase yield from rapidly shrinking farmland.

«Amazon floodplains and river channels — maintained by seasonal floods — promote nutrient cycling and high biological production, and support diverse biological communities as well as human populations with one of the highest per capita rates of fish consumption,» said Castello.

Most adaptations in protein - coding genes occurred in the last 6,000 to 13,000 years, as human populations shifted from hunting and gathering to farming, they report.

The dense forests in the two nations harbor an estimated 80 percent of the world's remaining great apes, whose numbers have plunged elsewhere in Africa as human populations have expanded.

But there are vast volumes of studies concluding that rising concentrations of greenhouse gases are already influencing the climate and will continue to raise the odds of fiercer floods, drier droughts and other disruptive changes, including a quickening pace of coastal retreats (and all as human populations soar in some of the world's most vulnerable places).

I would just like to pick up on the last sentence in this piece on the wolves, «As human populations expand, there'll be ever more such clashes between human interests and those of wide - ranging wildlife, whether in the Serengeti or Wyoming.»

As human populations expand, there'll be ever more such clashes between human interests and those of wide - ranging wildlife, whether in the Serengeti or Wyoming.

As human populations and appetites crest in coming decades, a quality that was critical after 9/11 will be needed more and more — resilience.

A big hurdle is limiting clashes between people and the predatory cats as human populations rise and dwindling habitat prompts tigers to seek prey further afield.

[UPDATE, 6/6/08: The International Energy Agency has echoed the call from many climate and energy experts for big increases in energy research, development, and deployment of non-polluting technologies, saying that there is no way to curb greenhouse gases as human populations and economies swell in coming decades without an «energy revolution.»]

I'll close with my overarching thought, reprised from a December post, on how networking could well be the meta - innovation that will drive the scale of progress that is required as human populations and appetites surge at least through mid-century:

Coal is the prime factor determining the pace of growth in emissions of heat - trapping carbon dioxide as human populations and appetites crest in the next few decades.

This report, «Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia,» provides a fresh degree - by - degree guide to impacts on river flows, rainfall, coasts and other factors that matter enormously over the next few decades as human populations crest.

I had an utterly minor experience today that helped reinforce my personal sense of where to focus if the goal is fostering a relatively smooth ride as human populations and appetites crest in coming decades.

But this is clearly a case of the wrong tool for the job, if the job is, in fact, to curb emissions of greenhouse gases as human populations and energy appetites crest.

Also too often, industry is turning to parts of plants that we use for food to create new sources of energy - putting food in direct competition with energy even as human populations reach levels at which that poses ethical conflicts.

He said the Antarctic krill fishery could help support global food security as human populations grow, as long as it continues to be sustainable.

Typically as human populations and per - capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise.

However, the technology is still getting major attention as human populations rise and water supplies tighten.