Sentences with phrase «growing a human population in»

Growing a human population in Madagascar that needs to cultivate land and wants to cut more forested area, monkey homes, has become disrespectful to animal life.

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The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

In general, our ruling class no longer believes in those divine decrees of which human decrees are but a hint or shadow, and neither does a large and growing part of the populatioIn general, our ruling class no longer believes in those divine decrees of which human decrees are but a hint or shadow, and neither does a large and growing part of the populatioin those divine decrees of which human decrees are but a hint or shadow, and neither does a large and growing part of the population.

A new report from FPI looks at the importance of jobs in the nonprofit health care and social assistance sector in New York City, and examines how the hardships facing the city's low - income population — the main constituency served by the nonprofit human services sector — have grown in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008 - 2009 and the weak recovery over the past three years.

In Africa alone, the continent with the highest fertility rate and lowest use of modern contraceptives, 26 countries will double their population by 2050, according to the U.N. «Fundamentally if you're looking at World Population Day, it is at heart a women's rights issue,» said Roger - Mark DeSouza director of population, environmental security and resilience at the non-partisan policy Wilson Center, based in Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growinIn Africa alone, the continent with the highest fertility rate and lowest use of modern contraceptives, 26 countries will double their population by 2050, according to the U.N. «Fundamentally if you're looking at World Population Day, it is at heart a women's rights issue,» said Roger - Mark DeSouza director of population, environmental security and resilience at the non-partisan policy Wilson Center, based in Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growinin Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growing.

As human development shrank territories for wolves, however, the wolf populations became fragmented and wolves no longer had the numbers or space to control coyotes, whose populations in turn grew.

Knowing how to grow plants in environments degraded by climate change will be crucial to feeding an exploding human population.

Encroaching agriculture — from beef to soya production — to feed a growing and more affluent human population means that, at the current rates, the number of 10,000 km2 landscapes in the Amazon that fall below the species loss threshold of 43 % forest cover will almost double by just 2030.

A population of chimpanzees or humans is always prone to grow exponentially when resources are abundant, but after a few generations even in the best of times it is forced to slow down.

Dukes found that in a single year, 1997, the human population burned the equivalent of more than 400 times the total plant matter grown that year throughout the world, including oceanic plankton.

Human epidermal equivalents representing different types of skin could also be grown, depending on the source of the stem cells used, and could thus be tailored to study a range of skin conditions and sensitivities in different populations.»

«There is a critical public health need to translate these findings to humans and understand vaccine response in this growing segment of the population,» Schultz - Cherry said.

Prehistoric human populations of hunter - gatherers in a region of North America grew at the same rate as farming societies in Europe, according to a new radiocarbon analysis involving researchers from the University of Wyoming and the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Humans in costume reared captive chicks and flew in light aircraft to guide the cranes» migration, but now the population has grown it's back to nature's way

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

«After growing steadily, particularly in the last four decades, aquaculture is for the first time set to contribute half of the fish consumed by the human population worldwide,» said Ichiro Nomura, assistant director general of FAO's fisheries and aquaculture department.

Six months after the World Health Organization (WHO) was notified of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, its experts have released a new study warning that the situation is quickly growing worse and that Ebola may even «become endemic among the human population of West Africa, a prospect that has never previously been contemplated.»

«For instance, there are huge conflict areas in sub-Saharan Africa, because it has vital wildlife habitats but a very rapidly growing human population that will need more food and more roads.»

Humans have reached and in many cases surpassed sustainable fishing limits, as our growing population demands more food.

Finally, the paper outlines the effects of an expansion in trade from the Bronze Age onwards, with a period of intense farming in response to growing human populations and emerging markets across the Old World.

Developing therapeutic cell populations from human ES cells will be far more demanding: cells will have to be stable, predictable, pure, have proven functionality, be nontumor - forming, and be «scalable» — capable of growing in very large numbers.

Earthquakes, tsunamis, and other natural disasters often showcase the worst in human suffering — especially when those disasters strike populations who live in rapidly growing communities in the developing world with poorly enforced or non-existent building codes.

When did human domination of the planet start, asks a new study that now reports a dramatic shift in one of the rules of nature about 6,000 years ago — connected to growing human populations and the rise of farming.

Prehistoric human populations of hunter - gatherers in the region that is now Wyoming and Colorado grew at the same rate as farming societies in Europe, according to a new radiocarbon analysis involving University of Wyoming researchers.

While many ethnic groups have hunted wildlife for subsistence over millennia, often with highly detrimental effects [8], the unsustainablility of this practice has accelerated in many areas due to growing human populations, an increasing tendency for wild meat to be traded commercially [9], and the widespread adoption of firearms and motorized transport that increase the efficiency and spatial extent of hunting [10,11].

The Teop people were selected to test Grimalda's theories on human cooperation for the small size of their communities (populations of around 50 inhabitants) and low levels of social complexity, though also because they present very different characteristics to those found in Western societies: they are horticulturists and gatherers; they use rudimentary tools to grow their food; they have no mechanised industry; and retribution for manual labour is infrequent.

The model suggests that outbreaks are more likely in urban areas with higher human and mosquito population densities, in years with longer growing seasons, when infected travelers arrive early in the growing season, and when tiger mosquitos have fewer non-human hosts that result in wasted bites.

As per - seat fuel efficiency of jet airliners improved, a combination of cheaper fares, increasing incomes, and a growing population raised the number of airborne humans from millions in the 1960s to the current four billion a year.

But there is growing evidence that pressures on water resources associated with poor management, increasing populations, and human - caused climate changes are now influencing regional security in new and disturbing ways.

Metagenomics is the study of the sequences of large populations of different organisms all growing in a common environment - as for example seawater, soil, the human gut - and these studies are made vastly easier by next - generation sequencing.

And with about 65 percent of the human population having trouble digesting lactose, according to the National Institutes of Health, an ever - growing number of nondairy substitutes — including almond, coconut, hemp, rice, soy, and sunflower seed milk — are increasingly in demand.

The series follows Rentaro, a boy growing up in a world where an alien parasite, Gastrea, has killed most of the human population.

Within the remedies and supplements category, human healthcare concerns and a growing senior pet population are driving trends in product development.

Without keeping track of how the cats are doing and what changes are occurring in the colony, the cat population can easily grow out of control again or a sick cat can infect the community creating both human and animal health risks.

The most complex tortoise - human interactions are occurring on Santa Cruz Island, in part due to the continued expansion of the road system throughout the highlands, as well as a growing tortoise population.

My take is that the tug of war over what's causing today's telegenic heat waves, floods, tempests — and even Arctic sea - ice retreats — distracts from the high confidence scientists have in the long - term (but less sexy) picture: that more CO2 will lead to centuries of climate and coastal changes with big consequences for a growing human population (for better and worse in the short run, and likely mostly for the worse in the long run).

In land use terms, agriculture is now so efficient that we may be looking at a peak in the use of farmland in the forseeable future, despite the growing human population and the need to double food production by 205In land use terms, agriculture is now so efficient that we may be looking at a peak in the use of farmland in the forseeable future, despite the growing human population and the need to double food production by 205in the use of farmland in the forseeable future, despite the growing human population and the need to double food production by 205in the forseeable future, despite the growing human population and the need to double food production by 2050.

In a world where hunger is still a reality for many, and there is concern about how to feed a growing human population, this quantity and source of food waste is very disturbing.

-- Clarifying what this small group of countries can do to help forge a new global climate agreement in Copenhagen in December, — Working out specific partnerships to propel advances toward «transformational technologies» that could supply abundant energy to a growing human population without overheating the planet.

Looking back at 40 years of human progress in 135 countries — 92 % of the world's population --- the report shows that average life expectancy rose from 59 to 70 years, primary school enrolment grew from 55 to 70 percent, and per capita income doubled to more than $ 10,000.

With India's population projected to grow from 1.2 billion in 2007 to 1.7 billion in 2050, a collision between rising human numbers and shrinking water supplies seems inevitable.

I encourage you to read the entire note, given that the issues explored by DeLisi are relevant around the world, and given the reality that a mix of technologies and techniques is going to be required in most places to satisfy growing human populations and appetites without consuming ever more land needed either for wildlife or human settlements.

Protect these four places and the species» future will be reasonably secure, but the Okavango could always dry up in the event of climate change, the Selous is currently managed by sport hunters (a dying industry), the Serengeti is surrounded by a rapidly growing human population whose offtake of bushmeat is close to the tipping point, and, well, Kruger isn't in the most stable country on earth...

Human population growth, growing demand for water, and declining biodiversity are other issues wrapped up in the warnings of a coming food crisis.

The capitalist economy, the way of the world, along with an unchecked, growing human population, demands growth in the economy, but it can not continue.

It is reasonable to assume that human CO2 emissions will continue to grow at a slightly higher level than population, despite the fact that there is considerable pressure on fossil fuels (economic as well as environmental) and the carbon efficiency of all nations is continuously improving (especially in the developed nations).

I'm sure you will agree that future human CO2 emissions will in some way be linked to future human population growth rates, i.e. if population grows rapidly humans will emit more CO2 in the future than if population grows slowly..

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.

In many parts of the world, water supplies are under increasing pressure from growing human population, demographic changes and climate change, which is changing the rules by which rivers, rain and snowfall, and annual storms have operated for thousands of years.

Actually, the whole global warming problem could be summarized as being a global over-population problem — it is, after all, the exploding human population that is driving the growing energy needs, causing the negative environmental impacts, and in the process, also causing a shortage of fresh water.