Sentences with phrase «driven habitat destruction»

Polar bears are likely to have survived periods of warming before, but Axel Janke at the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre in Frankfurt, Germany, points out that this time the warming is more rapid and is happening in tandem with human - driven habitat destruction, illegal hunting and pollution.

This time the warming is more rapid, though, and comes with the added challenge of human - driven habitat destruction, illegal hunting and pollution.

Not exact matches

Although people rarely intend to drive species into oblivion, as with the giraffe, they do so through the destruction of habitat, poaching and legal hunting.

The authors suggest that human activity may even be driving a similar Lilliput - like pattern in the modern world, as more and more large animals go extinct because of hunting, habitat destruction, and climate change.

The rest were driven to extinction by direct human exploitation and habitat destruction.»

The oceans are under constant pressure from chemical and nutrient pollution, overfishing, habitat destruction and CO2 - driven ocean acidification.

At the same time, habitat destruction, pollution and hunting and fishing have begun to drive species to extinction at an accelerating rate.

Our continued destruction and degradation of natural habitat, driving extinction, means much less carbon storage and the loss of water from natural systems as well as our own.

The current trajectory of biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse is being driven by cutting down forests, over-fishing, chemical pollution, soil degradation and erosion, habitat destruction, desertification and so on.

Facing criticism, biofuels industry forms new lobby group to influence lawmakers (7/25/2008) Under attack by politicians, aid groups, and environmentalists for driving up food prices and fueling destruction of ecologically sensitive habitats, some of the world's largest agroindustrial firms have formed a lobby group to influence consumers and lawmakers to support continued subsidies for biofuel production, reports Reuters.