Sentences with phrase «expanding human population»

An expanding human population, irresponsible tourism, the continuing intrusion of non-native species like pigs, goats, and poultry, and illegal fishing activities are all daunting threats to Darwin's hallowed biomes.

The shrinking area of productive land and the earth's steadily expanding human population are on a collision course.

It predicts increases of 30 to 60 percent in the yields of soybeans, cotton, wheat and other crops — enough to provide food and clothing for earth's expanding human population.

Global warming, increasing aridity and rapidly expanding human population will lead to drylands covering half of the Earth's land surface by the end of this century.

Further we are able to direct priority areas to be concentrated on to balance both the needs of an expanding human population including poverty eradication and food needs as documented through the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/, accessed July, 2013) and the continued distribution of richness of plant species.

The genome sequence, unveiled Monday in the renowned scientific journal Nature Biotechnology, will provide the know - how to engineer superior lines that will clothe, feed and fuel the ever - expanding human population.

While we agree with their findings, we warn that «passive» management, seeking purely to minimize anthropogenic impacts is likely to be insufficient, given the local and large - scale inevitable pressures created by an unabatedly expanding human population.

The genome sequence, unveiled in the scientific journal Nature Biotechnology, will provide the know - how to engineer superior lines that will clothe, feed and fuel the ever - expanding human population.

As a possible step toward the goal of doubling food production by 2050 to feed our expanding human population, researchers have transferred a key photosynthesis gene from a blue - green algae into a tobacco plant, according to a Nature news story.

Man is the most adaptable of animals and succeeds by the variety of habitats he can occupy; the elephant comes next and is so successful in occupying different African habitats that he now comes bang up against an expanding human population.

Freshwater withdrawals are expected to increase with the expanding human population, potentially worsening local water resources in many reg...

Biotechnology has been one of the hottest areas for investors over the last five years due to the advent of multiple game - changing new medicines, and the ever - expanding human population that's putting a tremendous amount of pressure on healthcare systems worldwide.

Not exact matches

But as human population expands and subsistence farming gives way to mechanized agriculture, food production has become reliant on fossil fuel and fertilizers to increase yield from rapidly shrinking farmland.

Curiously, the researchers noted in their paper, the Denisovan population shows «a drastic decline in size at the time when the modern human population began to expand.»

«Our findings challenge the theory held by many archaeologists that Levallois technology was invented in Africa and spread to Eurasia as the human population expanded.

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, together with an international team from across the United States and Europe, have found evidence which challenges the belief that a type of technology known as Levallois — where the flakes and blades of stones were used to make useful products such as hunting weapons — was invented in Africa and then spread to other continents as the human population expanded.

In this way, human populations were able to increase and expand for millennia, converting vast tracts of pristine forest into semi-natural woodlands and less productive land into rangeland.

The dense forests in the two nations harbor an estimated 80 percent of the world's remaining great apes, whose numbers have plunged elsewhere in Africa as human populations have expanded.

BOSTON — Humans living in the eastern Mediterranean first began wearing beads just when their populations apparently began to expand.

They hope to expand their sample range and explore these regions further to better understand the route traveled by the disease, the evolutionary changes it acquired at different stages, and the toll it had on the human population.

In this, early humans «expanded to fill all usable land, and then intensified land use as population densities increased».

The team confirms that the Denisovans interbred with the ancestors of some living humans and found that Denisovans had little genetic diversity, suggesting that their small population waned further as populations of modern humans expanded.

In contradiction to this theory is archaeological evidence to suggest early modern humans had already expanded beyond Africa by this time (22) and that the eruption of the YTT did not disturb the behavior of populations inhabiting peninsular India (12).

Presently, human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are the most powerful cellular resource to challenge this complete reassessment of the scientific bases and goals of toxicity testing, since they present a unique opportunity to develop a wide variety of human cell - based physiological test systems because they may be expanded indefinitely and triggered to differentiate into any cell type, offering additionally the possibility to represent the human population diversity.

«As protected conservation areas become smaller, lions are increasingly coming into contact with human populations, which are expanding to the boundaries of these protected areas,» says Neil Jordan, a conservation biologist from University of New South Wales, in a news release.

In other words, God would have governed all worlds from within human love, first through the original human ancestors and as population naturally expanded, through all people.

ASHG 2009: New Genetics Research Findings Expand Our Understanding of How Human Populations Have Evolved: Researchers Present Latest Evolution and Population Genetics Study Results at ASHG 2009 Meeting ASHG Press Release — October 22, 2009

We also expanded the number of alternate loci to create a reference that provides a more robust representation of human population variation.

In fact, its fueled by population growth, expanding access to the internet, the continued migration online (& the decline of TV & newspapers), and in turn to mobile / smartphones, and most of all the iterative human addiction for more & more info / answers / entertainment.

To carry out our humane commitment to the animals of Benton County by operating an open - door shelter and caring for homeless animals; providing education and enrichment programs to promote healthy human - animal bonds; offering access to low - cost services to those in need, with an emphasis on population control; developing progressive outreach programs; setting a high standard of animal care and husbandry; supporting opportunities for clinical education; and enhancing our funding resources to continue expanding these efforts.

Programs and services were expanded to keep pace with the growing human and animal population.

Recreational and other human disturbance, loss of habitat to urban development, introduction of beachgrass and other nonnative species, and expanding predator populations have all contributed to a decline in active nesting areas and in the size of the breeding and wintering populations.

I would just like to pick up on the last sentence in this piece on the wolves, «As human populations expand, there'll be ever more such clashes between human interests and those of wide - ranging wildlife, whether in the Serengeti or Wyoming.»

As human populations expand, there'll be ever more such clashes between human interests and those of wide - ranging wildlife, whether in the Serengeti or Wyoming.

With a mix including genetically modified crops and expanded aquaculture, where appropriate, scientists foresee a well - fed human population later in the century.

Humans seem to be following classic population dynamics that are no different than bacteria in a limited medium; that is expand / reproduce until all the resource is used up and then crash.

Evidently, concerns like long - term human wellbeing, biodiversity preservation and the integrity of Earth's body are momentarily at odds with powerful economic and political forces which relentlessly and unrealistically maintain an economic system marked by unrestricted and increasing per capita consumption, unbridled and expanding economic globalization, and continuous and rapid growth of the human population.

With or without global warming, there's a solid argument that improved understanding of planetary dynamics, particularly the climate system, is essential to sustaining human progress given how risks rise as populations expand, build, farm and concentrate in zones that are implicitly vulnerable to hard knocks like floods, droughts, heat and severe storms.

crop driven population growth renders serfdom again competitive with slavery, and expanding ash tree rings signal the resurgance of human sacrifice in Scandinavia.

So as the population explodes, human use of water expands, and pollution reduces the already limited amount available, the remaining volume of freshwater accessible to supply this demand grows smaller.»

The IPCC was set up to assign the blame of global warming and latterly climate change on human produced CO2 from an industrialized expanding population.

A warming of 11 — 12 °C would expand these zones to encompass most of today's human population.

All the while, the population continues to expand thereby outstretching both natural and human systems.

Today, the greatest environmental threats to alligators are habitat Loss and pollution.As Florida's human population continues to expand its footprint and encroaches on alligator habitat, encounters between the two species are inevitable, but human fatalities due to alligators are rare.

Janet Larsen from the Earth Policy Institute, says:» «With our human population expanding and resource consumption growing even faster, we are close to hitting the wall in a number of arenas — fresh water, oil reserves, minerals like phosphorous for fertilizer, oceanic fisheries, and nature's ability to absorb climate - altering carbon dioxide, among others.