Sentences with phrase «cause animal extinction»

Thinking about factors that tend to cause animal extinction, from deforestation to climate change, the plight of the koala's might be a little more surprising.

And such slight warming over next few decades, will cause animal extinction, and will melt Greenland in some dramatic fashion, and will continue cause increase in crop production and a general increase in global vegetation.

«How fear alone can cause animal extinction: Even the smell of a predator can have disastrous effects in populations of small size.»

Not exact matches

We're polluting our oceans, destroying rain forests, changing ecological environments by damming rivers, causing the extinction of animal species, and so on.

It is a documented fact that animal agriculture, or trying to sustain an animal based diet globally is the leading cause of environmental destruction, species extinction, and with other unhealthy food, the number one cause of illness globally.

A new study unequivocally points to humans as the cause of the mass extinction of large animals all over the world during the course of the last 100,000 years.

Soot is a strong, light - absorbing aerosol that caused global climate changes that triggered the mass extinction of dinosaurs, ammonites, and other animals, and led to the macroevolution of mammals and the appearance of humans.

The cause of the Cretaceous - Paleogene (KPg) mass extinction, which wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and roughly three - quarters of the planet's plant and animal species about 66 million years ago, has been debated for decades.

The scientist from Tübingen reached the conclusion that, on the one hand, modern man was the cause of these giant terrestrial animals» extinction, and on the other hand, humans took over part of the animals» ecosystem functions.

«Climate change is already causing widespread local extinction in plant and animal species.»

The date of the impact, estimated at slightly less than 66 million years ago, converges with the hypothesis that worldwide climate disruption in this period caused a mass extinction event in which 75 % of plant and animal species on Earth suddenly became extinct, including all non-avian dinosaurs.

But we are not doomed to cause a sixth mass extinction, at least not yet, despite consuming our way through the world's remaining big wild animals.

Scientists have long argued about what caused the extinction of many species of megafauna — giant animals including mammoths, mastodons, and moas — beginning between 9000 and 13,000 years ago, when humans began to spread around the world.

Many researchers attribute the extinction to human causes — that is, they believe the animals were hunted and deprived of habitat until they died out.

While habitat destruction has caused some extinctions, cats, foxes, and rats introduced around 1800 by British sailors have also played a major role, decimating native animals like bilbies and bandicoots — both small, ratlike marsupials found only in Australia.

Resulting hypoxic conditions would cause large extinctions, especially of water breathing animals, which is what we find at the PETM.

The CO2 content of the oceans decrease, pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere, depriving plants of their food source, causing agriculture to fail, and the dreams of the humanity - is - a-cancer-on-the-face-of-the-planet types comes true: the extinction of human life, and much animal life with it.

Animal agriculture is also a leading cause of species extinction.

Agrobusiness is the biggest cause of deforestation, CO2 emissions and animal extinction, besides of being responsible for the killing of more than a thousand innocent people, increase in the numbers of cancer and heart diseases, and the development of a culture of cruelty against animals.

Unless human beings begin playing their part in the cycle of life by eating animal foods obtained from farmers raising their cattle on grass pasture, then we will be the cause of our own extinction.

Due to a wide range of factors — most of them human - caused — this habitat has become quite fragile, with some animal and plant species on the brink of extinction.

At a time when scientists warn that humans may be causing the sixth mass extinction on earth, how do we see and relate to other animals?

In fact, the greatest number of animal extinctions caused by humans was in the 1900s (though we're only at the beginning of the 2000s, so we can check our progress in 50 years).

This is what it said, â $ œThe responsiveness of species to recent and past climate change raises the possibility that anthropogenic climate change could act as major cause of extinctions in the near futureâ $ ¦ â $ ¦ â $ ¦ â $ ¦ Here we use projections of the future distributions of 1,103 animal and plant species to provide â $ ˜first - passâ $ ™ estimates of extinction probabilitiesâ $ ¦ â $ ¦.

Unlike the end - Cretaceous, the PETM was not a big extinction event but it generated enough environmental disruption to cause a high turnover of land animals, the evolution of ever smaller animals (the «Lilliput effect»), and a mass extinction of tiny shell - making creatures that live on the sea bed (benthic foraminifera).

Space rocks have caused extinctions - it's possible a space rock was responsible for extinction of large animals in North America.

Therein, Pope Francis echoed President Obama's tune, claiming there exists «solid scientific consensus» that human activities are causing a «disturbing warming» of the climate, which left unchecked will result in a type of planetary Armageddon manifested by escalating temperatures, melting polar ice caps, rising seas, more frequent and more severe weather, ecosystem degradation, and plant and animal extinctions, all of which he claimed will severely affect humanity.

I totally agree and because of oil drilling more environmental disasters have occurred that have destroyed delicate ecosystems that hurt everyone's health, speed climate change and cause animals and sea critters to extinction.

Recent studies state 70 % + of all current plant and animal extinction is now caused by fungal infection.

Likely for this reason, the PETM caused a mass extinction of benthic foraminifera (foraminifera = microscopic animals with CaCO3 shells; benthic = lives on the ocean floor).

All of these trends can have an impact on other species, and while the exact causes are difficult to establish, current animal and plant species extinction rates are estimated to be at least 100 times the natural background rate [33,82,83,84].

Rhinos Nearing Extinction After 50 Years of Poaching Rhino poaching, often practiced to remove the animal's horn, has helped cause an extraordinary decline in populations throughout Africa and Asia — for example, there is thought to be about 130 Javan rhinos and only 300 Sumatran rhinos left in the wild.