Sentences with phrase «exploding populations of»

Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, yesterday described three troublesome trends that distinguish this century from the last, and the exploding populations of poor places topped his list.

East coast clam and scallop beds are being ravaged by exploding populations of rays that were formerly kept in check by sharks.

Perhaps this is not surprising, as in the 1960s, when population growth became an issue of widespread concern, the discussions often had a racist undertone, in which the «well - off» focused on the exploding populations of «underdeveloped nations».

Biologists have long known that toxins produced by algal blooms — exploding populations of minute, marine algae — can accumulate in shellfish that graze on them.

Despite an exploding population of active agers, very few health and fitness professionals are qualified to safely and effectively work with clients over age 55.

ZooMiami noted there is an «exploding population of feral / free - roaming cats» which begs the question what has caused this dramatic population increase.

For decades the accepted method of managing the exploding population of homeless and unwanted pets has been simply to trap and destroy them humanely.

The exploding population of the felines has drastically affected the ecosystem, causing the loss of 29 native species and placing a number of others under threats of disappearing.

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Latina - owned businesses explode: In the last decade, Hispanic Americans have been starting and growing new businesses at twice the rate of the general population, according to a new study by researcher Geoscape and the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.

As the world's population explodes and resources dwindle, dozens of recently launched North American startups are betting that edible insects will be part of the future of food.

The country's population of 1.3 billion and exploding middle class makes it the perfect market for franchises expanding internationally.

Forbes also notes that Atlanta's Latino and Asian populations have «exploded,» with high rates of self - employment.

In the chart above, courtesy of a March report from theOxford Institute for Energy Studies, you can see that the number of vehicles driving on Indian roads doubled between 2007 and 2014, thanks not only to an exploding population but also the rise of India's «spending class,» as Gianni calls it.

Biraq, also, the human population of always - around - 200 million exploded into 7 billion only in the last 200 years thanks to the advancement in the Christian West.

Since virtually all of South America and Mexico practices catholicism, the population continues to explode.

(6) Because it is a necessary answer to the sheltering of an exploding population, although it is that.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

As the worlds population explodes an equal % of nuts appear nothing unusual here.

The absence of birth control measures is allowing populations to explode with horrifying speed.

-- The approaching of the earth's capacity to support the exploding world population with the elementary physical necessities, food being the most crucial.

The consumption of spices in the United States has exploded almost three times as fast as the population over the past several decades, data from the USDA reveals.

By 1991, the total population of Indians, Pakistanis, and Bangladeshis in the U.K. had exploded to one and a half million.

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

Rabbits have been on the minds of the Grant Park advisory council for three years, as the population of the furry critters has exploded, wreaking havoc on the park's greenery.

One of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's top aides, Karen Hinton, took to Twitter to point out the city's shelter population exploded under former Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

The deer population in Staten Island has exploded recently, with an aerial survey done by the Parks Department in 2014 finding 763 of the animals in the borough — up from just 24 in 2008.

Spectrum News Meteorologist Dan Russell says it's not unusual for the pesky insect to show up this time of year; however, after an unusually wet spring, the population has exploded.

«Considering the fact that the population down here is exploding, it makes obvious sense that there needs to be some organized political effort,» said Patrick Kennell, who is also a member of Community Board 1.

The NYPD will create a new unit of nearly 40 specially trained cops to deal with the exploding homeless population and crime near a drug - plagued intersection in East Harlem, top...

This should lead to tremendous advances in time - domain astronomy: studying fast - changing phenomena as they occur — black holes being born, supernovas exploding — as well as locating potentially Earth - threatening asteroids and mapping the little - understood population of objects orbiting out beyond Neptune.

Moving to or living in a state where the population of children is exploding will further improve the odds.

By eating mussels on the low shores in Oregon, sea stars keep those populations in check so the bivalves don't explode in numbers, at the expense of other organisms.

This gruesome scene is a bonanza for the local population of ravens, which has exploded in recent years as hunting has increased, a researcher told the Animal Behavior Society meeting here on 15 July.

In it, Malthus showed why the population was destined to explode in the course of a few years unless checked by hunger catastrophes or epidemics.

Their population has exploded, and deep - sea biologists suspect a sudden glut of food is the cause.

Jellyfish populations appear to be exploding in several parts of the world, U.S. and Russian scientists reported, raising fears that they are taking over ecosystems that nurture key commercial fish stocks.

The country's booming population may also speed the invasion of the forest — in Petén, the northern third of the country where the reserve lies, official estimates state that the population exploded from 25,000 in 1960 to 500,000 in 2004.

It revealed that we not only had the ability to destroy vegetation in the name of progress, but that our wonder chemicals — the pesticides and fertilisers that were to help to feed the exploding world population — could cause insidious damage to the ecosystems.

The native bull trout population is exploding, with more nests and some of the highest spawning counts on record.

Ecosystems are delicately balanced, and losing ecological roles throws a system out of whack: Think of a forest damaged when the deer population explodes because the wolves that prey on them are removed.

Threespot Damselfish populations have exploded in recent years due to overfishing of predatory fish such as groupers and snappers.

In the United States, for instance, cowbird populations have exploded thanks to the easy food and nesting opportunities offered by sprawling patchworks of forest and agricultural land.

So when algal populations explode, say, because of warming water, domoic acid concentrations increase in these animals to a point that they affect the sea lions that feast on them.

Analyzing the light with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile, the researchers found the amount of elements heavier than helium to be less than one - thousandth that in the sun's neighborhood, and the ratio of carbon to silicon is just what would be expected of exploded population III stars.

The raccoon dog genomes also showed signs of a recent population expansion, suggesting their population had shrunk to a low level and then exploded.

While obesity rates have risen to about 30 percent of the U.S. population — carrying with it an epidemic of diabetes — food stamp enrollment has also exploded.

«We have known that populations of these crabs can explode following periods of warmer temperatures,» says Nathaniel Evans of the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.

Over the same time that population in the southern part of the Salt Lake Valley and neighboring Utah Valley exploded, Salt Lake City grew by around 10,000 people.

«In 2050, most of the world population will live in the tropics, and the use of air conditioning is already exploding in tropical countries.

In the 1990s, a series of warm winters and summers in south - central Alaska allowed bark beetle populations to explode and kill millions of old spruce trees.