Sentences with phrase «by human activity today»

This represents a multicentury commitment created by human activities today,» the report states.

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Baby Milk Action press release 10 June 2014 Baby Milk Action is today joining colleagues around the world calling on governments to support international efforts to strengthen international law, thereby better protecting people from human rights abuses caused by corporate activities.
Howie Hawkins, the recent Green Party candidate for Governor, called today upon Governor Cuomo to acknowledge the climate change is being caused by human activity, starting with the burning of fossil fuels.
With over 80 percent of forests already degraded by human and industrial activities, today's findings underscore the immediate need for international policies to secure remaining intact forests — including establishing new protected areas, securing the land rights of indigenous peoples, regulating industry and hunting, and targeting restoration efforts and public finance.
Today's forests have been greatly altered by human activity and face increasing threats from drought, insect infestations and fire.
«Today the Earth is still adjusting to the recent rapid rise of CO2 caused by human activities, whereas the longer - term Pliocene records document the full response of CO2 - related warming,» says Southampton's Dr Gavin Foster, co-author of the study.
In today's issue of Science Translational Medicine, he and his colleagues present a more efficient way of finding such new uses for old drugs: by bringing together data on how diseases and drugs affect the activity of the roughly 30,000 genes in a human cell.
A team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) led by Professor and HHMI Investigator Leemor Joshua - Tor of the W. M. Keck structural biology laboratory today publishes a paper in the journal Cell Reports that defines the critical differences between the human Argonautes that lead to their differences in activity.
Today, the need for a clear understanding of how biodiversity is created and maintained has intensified in the face of mass extinctions driven by human activity.
Today air is polluted to a dangerous level due to different activities performed by the human.
Today's Jerusalem is the product of centuries of human activity, evident in countless signs and symbols left by its builders.
By usage of found photographs, which he has collected over years and that forms part of his artistic practice, Barrios incorporates fragments of human development from the primitive to today's high - tech society, thus reflecting the contrast between nature and human activity.
This new project is about our planet earth, nature and its beauty, and what remains of it today despite the manifold destruction caused by human activity.
An Op - Ed article by two solar scientists in today's paper explores the implications for human affairs of both peaks and lulls in solar activity.
Today's equator - pole gradient is expected to remain large for this century (the frost - free zone will barely move), and expansion is limited by human activities.
The eleventh commandment: Do not mislead your neighbor about the cause of severe recent global warming by human activity nor distract from your neighbor effort to save Earth for inhabitants of today and tomorrow.
Only a year ago, WND reported scientists and others on a team assembled by the Chicago - based Heartland Institute, which focuses on free - market solutions to today's problems, say the «scare» of global warming from the use of carbon fuels and other human activities «is over.»
Most responses to today's environmental woes aim to limit the impact of human activity by minimizing pollution and waste.
In today's West Australian, which is the most widely newspaper in Western Australia, there is a piece by Paul Murray discussing the survey by the American Meteorological Society of the views of its members on the link between carbon emissions from human activity and global warming.
As we documented in a recent study of newspaper opinion pages, one place where this problem is alive and well is USA Today, which often pairs scientifically accurate editorials about climate change with «opposing view» op - eds that flatly deny climate change is happening or that it's caused by human activities.
But the level of CO2 has been drastically altered by human activity, rising from 280ppm at the start of the industrial revolution to 400ppm today.
Similarly, today natural climate - change is being blamed on human activity by politicians, rather than the scientific illiteracy that's CAUSED by the politicization of the scientific process as a tool for power rather than knowledge.
Of course, there is much more to climate science than a few sentences, but today we also know that multiple peer - reviewed studies show that 97 percent or more of climate scientists agree that climate change is real and caused by human activities.
«Ninety - seven percent of scientists, including by the way some who originally disputed the data, have now acknowledged the planet is warming and human activity is contributing to it,» Obama said today, citing a recent study that confirmed — once again — that the vast majority of climatologists accept climate science.
James Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, today published a study showing that greenhouse gases emitted by human activities have brought the Earth's climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet.
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