Sentences with phrase «at the human toll»

Like many scientists in Japan, Tamura is both anxious over disrupted research plans and heartbroken at the human toll of the earthquake and the ensuing tsunami, which killed thousands of people and left nearly half a million homeless.

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Meanwhile, even before the new attacks, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva said the death toll in Syria is at least 3,500 since March...

HRC Front Desk: [phone] TTY: [phone] Toll - Free: [phone] HRC Web site comment page General membership email at HRC: [email protected] Back live today after the holiday break and today kicking off a campaign on the show, along with many LGBT bloggers and opinionmakers in a blog swarm, urging people to call the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay group, and tell the group to pressure President Obama on getting «don't ask, don't tell» repealed this year.

Steve Goose, director of the Arms Division at Human Rights Watch said «Syria is expanding its relentless use of cluster munitions, a banned weapon, and civilians are paying the price with their lives and limbs», «The initial toll is only the beginning because cluster munitions often leave unexploded bomblets that kill and maim long afterward.»

«We found that interbreeding with archaic humans — the Neanderthals and Denisovans — has influenced the genetic diversity in present - day genomes at three innate immunity genes belonging to the human Toll - like - receptor family,» says Janet Kelso of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

A 2 - year fellowship from the Human Science Frontier Program financed a postdoc at Yale University School of Medicine on the role of so - called «toll - like receptors» in immune responses.

If a virus like Ebola is not chased out of humans, it will remain a constant threat, racking up a huge toll and limiting free movement — at least until widespread vaccination tames it.

They hope to expand their sample range and explore these regions further to better understand the route traveled by the disease, the evolutionary changes it acquired at different stages, and the toll it had on the human population.

At the same time, questions are emerging about the destructive environmental impact of mining for these and other elements, as well as the human toll of those mining operations in the developing world.

A touching tale illustrating how a dramatic life change might, temporarily at least, exact a terrible toll on a frail human psyche.

ZALINGEI, West Darfur, Sudan — On top of the human toll, the conflict in Darfur is afflicting the environment, says Abuelgasim Abdalla Adam, dean of the faculty of forestry sciences at the University of Zalingei.

Externalities may be addressed by either a tax / credit or some other public policy, public ownership and management of the commons, or privatization of the commons, or through court actions — each option may have it's own costs — for example, the large - scale privatization of the climate system may be impractical with given technology (analogy with toll roads), and even without that, it has at least an aesthetic cost (nature is supposed to be nature; and psychologically, humans may benifit from some amount of public space) and perhaps scientific (ie nature — in this context, nature as it is with relatively small impacts of humankind — is not nature if it is not being itself) costs; there may be inefficiencies in the court system that could be bypassed for issues that are easily addressed with legislation (unless we had a class - action lawsuit on behalf of all people now until the year).

A recent analysis published in the BMJ (formerly known as British Medical Journal) places the human toll at roughly 251,000 lives per year.

The human toll of an assault at work is so significant that the government should do all that it can to keep employees safe at work.»