Sentences with phrase «effects on human community»

His most ambitious project to date, British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah's Purple is an immersive, six - channel video installation which charts the incremental shifts in climate change across the planet and its effects on human communities, biodiversity and the wilderness.

In 2017, John Akomfrah unveiled Purple, an immersive six - channel video installation addressing climate change and its effects on human communities, biodiversity and the wilderness.

The six - channel video installation addresses climate change and its effects on human communities, biodiversity and the wilderness

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Wherever we go, microbial communities will faithfully follow, making this evidence of the effects of spaceflight on bacterial physiology relevant to human health.

«Healthy gut bacterial communities are known to benefit immune regulation, metabolism and potentially even the nervous system, so if cholera or other diarrheal diseases permanently impact the microbiota, there could be long - term effects on human health,» explains Regina LaRocque, MD, MPH, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Infectious Diseases, co-senior author of the paper.

Highly motivated people openly cast doubt on well - established evidence — the theory of evolution, the human effects on climate change, the value of vaccines and other findings that have achieved an overwhelming consensus in the scientific community.

Beyond this, it could also have devastating effects on human settlements of Arctic indigenous communities.

«Our main goal, as the premier genomics laboratory of the Department of Defense, was to advise policymakers, the medical community, and those involved in the development of pharmaceuticals on the effects viral evolution might have on medical countermeasures as a consequence of the sustained human - to - human transmission during the Ebola outbreak in western Africa,» Palacios said.

The mission of the Comet Research Group is to accurately assess the effects of comet impacts on human history, to educate the international public about these effects, and, ultimately, to provide governments and the scientific community with the information they need to stop comets from hitting Earth in the future.

This expertise is needed to deal with climate issues in the North Central US, where changes in temperature and precipitation could have significant effects on streams, forests, agricultural lands, and mountain ecosystems, in addition to the fish, wildlife, and human communities supported by these environments.

I've investigated the consequences of human activities on ecological communities and processes — from the effects of cleaning habits on the bacterial diversity in our homes to the consequences of land - use change on stream ecosystem function.

The role of saliva in structuring human oral bacterial communities, effects of permafrost thaw on methanogenic communities, and articles on the microbiomes of termites, burying beetles, honey bees, and mosquitoes.

An education development organization founded in 2008 that focuses on transforming communities through education and opportunity, the Dignitas Project — unlike many non-government organizations (NGOs)-- does not approach urban slums as dense concentrations of human need where charitable work in «emergency mode» or through traditional methods will have a desirable effect.

O'Haire also leads Purdue's Organization for Human - Animal Interaction Research (OHAIRE), [https://vet.purdue.edu/chab/ohaire/] which includes national and international collaborators, students, and community members working together to conduct rigorous scientific research on the unique and pervasive effects of interacting with animals.

And data from communities and countries that sterilize community dogs show the same results: a decline in the number of dog bites, with «officials point [ing] to a variety of factors: the obvious effect of sterilization on dog behavior, including behaviors associated with mating, reduced numbers of dogs and reduced home range of individual dogs resulting in fewer chance encounters with humans, an increased respect and thus kinder treatment towards dogs due to the positive role model of rescuers, and the impact of community education by rescuers that often accompanies these efforts.

A pioneer in color photography, Sternfeld's thirteen bodies of work, all of which were also published as books, have explored cultural identity through ordinary people and places, with topics ranging from experimental communities to the effect of human intervention on the natural landscape.

I am part of that community; we agree that human greenhouse gas emissions are having a huge, negative effect on global climate.

For those of us who used to admire science, and who are concerned about the possible adverse effects of human activity on the environment, the behavior of the climatological community gatekeepers of credibility is disappointing.

Furthermore, there is no consensus within the Antarctic research community if there have been any human effects on Antarctica's ice balance.

Environment groups that have supported the wind industry and taken their thirty pieces of silver, «health professionals» who have no expertise in acoustics and no interest in faraway rural communities, but do have an overblown interest in climate health effects, have jumped on the wind energy bandwagon eager to claim the high moral ground despite the human collateral damage.

Since the birth of the environmental movement in the last century, the architectural community has responded by taking the initiative to develop several Green building standards, which are focused on promoting the reduction of harmful effects on the environment and on human health in the design and construction of buildings.

Tar Sands and Unconventional Fossil Fuels In a previous post «Silence Is Deadly» I wrote, «The environmental impacts of tar sands development include: irreversible effects on biodiversity and the natural environment, reduced water quality, destruction of fragile pristine Boreal forest and associated wetlands, aquatic and watershed mismanagement, habitat fragmentation, habitat loss, disruption to life cycles of endemic wildlife particularly bird and caribou migration, fish deformities and negative impacts on the human health in downstream communities.»

Manila Bulletin Publishing Corporation: MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines and Bangladesh joined forces for an initiative in the United Nations Human Rights Council to urge the international community to address the adverse effects of climate change on human riHuman Rights Council to urge the international community to address the adverse effects of climate change on human rihuman rights.

Intended as a climate change preparedness resource for planners, policymakers, and the public, the 600 - page «ClimAID» report, written by scientists from Cornell University, Columbia University, and the City University of New York, says New Yorkers should begin preparing for hotter summers, snowier winters, severe floods, and a range of other effects on the environment, communities, and human health.

A report from National Geographic pointed out that this migration has far - reaching effects on the human population by destabilizing fisheries, taking away communities» livelihood and food.

On the basis of well - established evidence from the past 20 years, there is now wide consensus among scientific organizations and approximately 97 % of climatologists that human - generated greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of climate change.1 — 4 Although the effects of climate change are already being felt across the world, the magnitude of the effects of future changes depends on our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate changOn the basis of well - established evidence from the past 20 years, there is now wide consensus among scientific organizations and approximately 97 % of climatologists that human - generated greenhouse gas emissions are the cause of climate change.1 — 4 Although the effects of climate change are already being felt across the world, the magnitude of the effects of future changes depends on our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate changon our ability to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and implement adaptation strategies within the ensuing decades.5 Thus, it remains possible to protect children, families, and communities from the worst potential effects of climate change.

It provides comprehensive scientific assessments of the scientific community's understanding of climate change and the effects of the changing climate, on both human societies and natural systems.

Washington, DC — A team of scientists led by Carnegie's Rebecca Albright and Ken Caldeira performed the first - ever experiment that manipulated seawater chemistry in a natural coral reef community in order to determine the effect that excess carbon dioxide released by human activity is having on coral reefs.

For me as Social Justice Commissioner, specifically charged by statute to report on the effect of the Native Title Act upon the human rights of Indigenous Australians, the challenge is to develop a framework that recognises the distinctiveness of Indigenous identity as it is shaped by our adherence to traditional laws and customs, while at the same time seeking to maximise the capacity of native title to contribute to the economic and social development of traditional owner groups and the communities they live in.