Sentences with phrase «day by human activities»

This is the drop in seawater pH as the oceans absorb an estimated 22 million tons of carbon dioxide from the 80 million tons emitted each day by human activities.

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But we maintain, on the contrary, that we know the Jesus of history very well, even if we do not have a precise and photographic account of his day - by - day activities; and the unique claim of Christianity is that in and by those events in the actual realm of historical happenedness, God is revealed — revealed, of course, in and under the conditions of history and human life, but revealed nonetheless.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

But plenty of smaller earthquakes, most not even felt by humans, occur across the world every day due to detonations, such as nuclear weapons testing or mining, or rising magma linked to volcanic activity.

Whether peering into deep space or checking on human activity, spacecraft and satellites from days gone by are still on the job

But these days, with many scientists are focused on tracking greenhouse gases produced by human activities at national, regional and local scales, the current monitoring network doesn't measure up.

The total energy expenditure, or TEE, is the amount of calories burned by the human body in one day, according to the type and amount of activity.

However, once you get through the transition, your body can quickly adapt and learn to function just as well only eating a few times a day: This study explains that in participants after 48 - hours of fasting,» cognitive performance, activity, sleep, and mood are not adversely affected in healthy humans by two days of calorie - deprivation.»

To project future emissions from human activities, we used the SRES higher (A1FI) and lower (B1) emissions scenarios that capture to some extent the uncertainty in future climate due to human decisions [22], with CO2 emissions ranging from slightly less than present - day levels up to four times present - day levels by 2100.

According to a draft of the report cited by the BBC, it was only considered «likely» that human activities could be linked to changes in cold and warm days.

For example the Arbor Day Foundation reports that more than 83 % of forest fires in 2006 were started by human activities, accounting for the burning of nearly 4.4 million acres.

It is partly due to building materials such as concrete that store up heat during the day and radiate it during the night, and partly due to extra heat generated by human activities.

Though lucky participants might catch a glimpse of a bottlenose dolphin or two, smokestacks, sewage pipes, and shipping containers are the main attractions on the Urban Ocean Boat Cruise, a two - and - a-half-hour voyage along a part of the Los Angeles coastline not featured on Baywatch.Organized by the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, the trips — which start daily as of Memorial Day weekend — «ply Southern California's most compromised waters to show the environmental effects of trade, fishing, industry, and other human activities,» the Los Angeles Times reported recently.

More Nature Introducing Discovery Green for Earth Day Rasmussen Survey: Nobody Listens to Scientists, Only 34 % of US Voters Believe Global Warming is Caused by Human Activity Breathtaking!

The various kinds of research undertaken by an anthropologist revolves around activities such as study of social, economic and behavior of human beings, understanding culture, customs, values, habits of human beings, research earlier biological evidence for better understanding of modern day living etc..

SKILL HIGHLIGHTS Office Administration Inventory and Supply Management Human Resources Support Administrative Support Vendor Management Team Collaboration PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 11/1/2013 — 5/1/2016 Office Administrator Liberty Financial Services — Austin, TX Supported startup team in day - to - day activities by facilitating office management and software testing.

In humans, the end product of the HPA axis is cortisol, a steroid hormone that follows a diurnal rhythm — increasing early in the morning, peaking approximately 30 minutes after waking, and declining throughout the day, reaching near - zero levels at night.14 This diurnal pattern is not present at birth but begins to emerge around 3 months of age15, 16 and is fully entrained to daylight cycles by age 2 years.17 Children experiencing social deprivation or maltreatment show departures from this typical profile of diurnal HPA activity, suggestive of chronic stress.