Sentences with phrase «by human footprints»

Untouched by human footprints, you can look deep into your soul and discover the joys of being in touch with your inner self.

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Impressions left by a large claw on the innermost toe on the dinosaur's front foot (the analog of the human thumb) indicate that the still - unknown species was located near the base of the sauropod family tree, and the sizes of the footprints — in some cases 70 centimeters across — suggest that the behemoths grew to reach 15 meters in length and weighed up to 10 metric tons, the researchers report online today in the Scottish Journal of Geology.

Given that the world population is still growing by about 200,000 people a day, and the ecological footprint of the human race already lies beyond the limits of sustainability, fewer European mega-consumers will be a blessing for the health of the planet — and fewer North Americans would...

Archaeologists working on the eastern coast of England have found a series of footprints that were made by human ancestors sometime between one million and 780,000 years ago.

The earliest human footprints outside of Africa have been uncovered, on the English coast, by a team of scientists led by Queen Mary University of London, the British Museum and the Natural History Museum.

The Laetoli footprints, thought to have been made by Australopithecus, are quite similar to those of modern humans except that the heel is narrower and the sole lacks a proper arch.

Ichnologists study tracks and traces and other signs of living creatures, including the footprints left by our human and pre-human ancestors.

She and her team dated the site by several methods with several dating laboratories and announced that some of the marks were footprints made by ancient humans.

The latest and most controversial candidate surfaced when a team of investigators led by Sylvia Gonzalez of Liverpool John Moores University in England announced in August the discovery in central Mexico of human footprints that they claim are at least 40,000 years old.

At the most fundamental level, the ecological footprint incorporates six measurements — city cover, carbon dioxide pollution, farm fields, fisheries, forests and rangeland — to reveal «the aggregate area of land and water ecosystems required by specified human populations to produce the ecosystem goods and services they consume and to assimilate their carbon waste.»

«Social and economic equality empowers societies to engage in sustainable pathways, which includes, by the way, not only the sustainable use of natural resources but also slowing down population growth, to actively diminish the human footprint on the environment.»

Modern human footprints reflect the specialized anatomy and function of the human foot, which is characterized by a fully adducted hallux [big toe in line with the other toes], a large and robust calcaneus [heel] and tarsal region, a pronounced medial longitudinal arch, and short toes.

Bones and human artifacts, after examination by specialists, can tell us much about how life was lived in earlier times but footprints are full of wonder for us.

archeology The study of human history, performed by analyzing things that ancient humans left behind, from housing materials and cooking vessels to clothing and footprints.

Review of «Footprint free human iPSCs from articular cartilage with redifferentiation capacity - a first step towards a clinical grade cell source» from Stem Cell Translational Medicine by Stuart P. Atkinson

The most popular model used by geneticists for the last 35 years to detect the footprints of human evolution may overlook more common subtle changes, a new international study finds.

During all this time, natural ecosystems have developed in co-evolution, but 250 years ago, with the development and industrialization models imposed by the West on the world, anthropogenic action is causing a major ecological and social footprint, hence the urgency to formulate international policies that circumscribe human economic activities within the biophysical limits of Mother Earth.

I wanted to achieve a kind of closer contact by using a more primal element of the body and I suppose the footprint is the first print humans ever made.

The attempts to chip away at the evidence for climate change are akin to the efforts of creationists to chip away a mountain to see if they can find human and dinosaur footprints side by side.

«Eventually, abandoned structures become completely swallowed up by vegetation and the earth itself, leaving few traces of our human footprint.

Try to calculate the «carbon sensitivity» of human life by plotting change in life expectancy per doubling of carbon footprint.

How much human misery is it worth to reduce your carbon footprint by 2 percent?

In Ecological Footprint accounts, the «carbon Footprint» measures the amount of biological capacity, in global hectares, demanded by human emissions of fossil carbon dioxide.

The term Ecological Footprint, capitalized, is a proper name referring to a specific research question: how much of the biological capacity of the planet is demanded by a given human activity or population?

Ecological Footprint accounts answer a specific research question: how much of the biological capacity of the planet is demanded by a given human activity or population?

Human footprint on methane exchange between soil and atmosphere is mediated by drainage.

By removing natural and stray light sources, researchers have provided a clearer picture of the human footprint on Earth.

Real versus Imagined Ecological Footprints,» authored by Linus Blomqvist (Breakthrough Institute), Barry Brook (University of Adelaide), Erle Ellis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Peter Kareiva (The Nature Conservancy), Ted Nordhaus & Michael Shellenberger (Breakthrough Institute), decomposes the six metrics that make up the Ecological Footprint and finds that five of the six — cropland, grazing land, built - up land, forests, and fishing grounds — are either in balance or surplus, suggesting that the Earth's renewable capacity in these categories meets or exceeds human demand for these resources.

That is the central finding of the Ecological Footprint (EF), a widely cited global sustainability indicator used by the United Nations and major NGOs around the world to estimate the impact of human activity on the biosphere.

From the formula, we can see that the carbon footprint area is essentially calculated by dividing total anthropogenic carbon emissions remaining after accounting for ocean uptake (i.e., 72 % of net human emissions) by the rate at which existing forests sequester carbon.

By setting out to create a positive, regenerative human footprint, by tapping local energy flows and integrating building and landscape, the design outperforms buildings that set energy efficiency as their highest goaBy setting out to create a positive, regenerative human footprint, by tapping local energy flows and integrating building and landscape, the design outperforms buildings that set energy efficiency as their highest goaby tapping local energy flows and integrating building and landscape, the design outperforms buildings that set energy efficiency as their highest goal.

The carbon footprint can be explained as the amount of carbon put into the atmosphere by human beings.

Earth Overshoot Day is hosted and calculated by Global Footprint Network, an international think tank that coordinates research, develops methodological standards and provides decision - makers with a menu of tools to help the human economy operate within Earth's ecological limits.

See «Ecological Footprints and Bio-Capacity: Essential Elements in Sustainability Assessment» by William E. Rees: «humanity had already «overshot» the long - term human carrying capacity of the Earth by about 20 % in 1999 — the whole planet is in deficit.

Next up after that is decreasing our demand and our footprint by halting then reversing human population growth.

Interestingly, controlling graft was also highlighted by Venter and colleagues (2016) as a factor influencing why economically growing countries have differential human - footprint outcomes between 1993 and 2009; lower corruption scores and greater urbanization percentages were associated with decreased human influence at the national scale.

'' «Electrosmog» refers to the electromagnetic fields emitted by computers and mobile phones, «eco-village» is a term used for small ecologically - sustainable communities and «carbon footprint» is the measure of the impact human activities on the environment.»