Sentences with phrase «face extinction in»

Mongabay points out that a new report by the IUCN says that the Ganges River dolphin, whose range also includes the Brahmaputra River, faces multiple threats and may face extinction in there unless critical habitat is protected: Of an estimated total population of 2,000, some 240 - 300 live in the Brahmaputra (in northeast India, flowing into Bangladesh, for those not up on South Asian geography).

A study conducted by Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis projected that 40 percent of the current Fortune 500 companies will face extinction in 10 years.

But that is quite different from saying that Christianity as such faces extinction in the region, or that the church might cease to exist.

Youth isn't kind to leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea), which are facing extinction in the eastern Pacific Ocean as beach resorts and hotels spring up.

Not exact matches

Cisco's decision this week to slash 5,500 employees highlights an unfortunate truth in an era in which businesses are bombarded with the message that they must go «digital» or face irrelevancy and extinction.

In terms of buyer relationships, the days of the grand «dog and pony» show is facing utter extinction.

A thought, a harmony, the achievement of a perfection in material things, some special nuance in human love, the exquisite complexity of a smile or a glance, every new embodiment of beauty appearing in me or around me on the human face of the earth: I cherish them all like children whose flesh I can not believe destined to complete extinction.

The real problem here is that Islam is controlled not by its moderates, but by its radicals — the radicals who appear in YouTube videos describing the «proper» way to beat your wife or who advocate the extinction of another race of people, or demand that non-Muslims convert or possibly face death.

Admittedly, a few tough - minded souls — usually academics — were able to face their own extinction with equanimity, knowing full well that the traces they left in the culture would be erased within a generation or two at best.

Today Christians of all kinds are under attack in Iraq and might be facing extinction soon.

In this event preeminently, we face the possibility of our extinction.

«Ancient Christian communities in Iraq and Syria are on the verge of extinction and other religious minorities in the Middle East face a constant assault from the so - called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.»

In effect WE are the ones facing mass extinctions, including Human, if not Planetary Death.

In his last chapter he contemplates the last minutes of planet earth as it faces an extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat and concludes: «The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless» (p. 154).

Many people seem to think that we believers in immortality are victims of self - importance, and that we want to live on because we egotistically can not endure facing our own extinction.

Several other houses faced extinction, but survived in a reduced state.

And so we see this is what we have precisely done by reading the news; now facing the 6th mass extinction event in the planets history and accelerating climate change which we severely underestimated.

Reflect for a moment on a few familiar facts: The endangered wildlife list now stands at a record 101 species in the United States — mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles facing extinction.

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For a young manager like Eddie Howe to bring a small and unglamorous club right through the divisions (either side of a spell at Burnley), when they'd been facing relegation to the Conference and very probably extinction when he took over in 2009, is little short of astonishing.

The idea is that such alloparenting as such «substitute care» is called likely lessened maternal energetic costs associated with lactation and infant care in general, permitting mothers to ovulate sooner explaining why the great apes but not humans may be facing extinction, as great apes have a much longer birth interval such that they are not replacing themselves, demographically.

In 2014, again facing the potential threat of extinction and under pressure from its labor backers, the party agreed to endorse Cuomo over liberal challenger Zephyr Teachout.

He lamented over what he regarded as era of extinction of crude oil in the world, saying the sharp drop in the global prices of crude oil was a signal to the fact that government at all levels need to shift face to agriculture.

Traditional taxi drivers in two of Ghana's robust economic capitals, Accra and Tamale, capital of the Northern Region, face an identical challenge, which may soon see them driven into extinction.

«As long as I have been in politics I have read portentous pieces from commentators and pundits saying the Liberal Democrats are just about to die — tomorrow... if we were not in coalition now I am sure I would be reading pieces saying that because Nick Clegg failed to take the strategic opportunity of being in coalition the Liberal Democrats face irrelevance and extinction.

If climate changes proceed as expected, one in six species could face extinction.

Among other examples of local and regional tipping points are the rapid collapse of coral reefs in the face of rising ocean acidity and the transformation of ecosystems by the extinction of a dominant species, or the introduction of a new one.

But today, Africa's rhinos once again are facing extinction, despite a 1977 ban on the selling of rhino parts by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

The Darwin's frog (Rhinoderma darwinii) is the latest amphibian species to face extinction due to the global chytridiomycosis pandemic, according to an international study published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.

Dozens of Britain's research laboratories could face extinction following a European Community directive designed to promote competition in public services.

The findings come after UEA research revealed that up to half of all plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

Up to half of plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas, such as the Amazon and the Galapagos, could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

It's an icon of evolution, but the waterwheel plant is facing extinction — and even its preservation in a seed bank looks doubtful.

One of them, the mangrove finch, already «is facing potential total extinction because it is present in only two populations on a single island, Isabela,» Koop says.

«Until now, we assumed that it is primarily the specialists among the insects, i.e., animals that depend on a specific habitat, that are threatened with extinction,» explains Professor Dr. Thomas Schmitt, director of the Senckenberg German Entomological Institute in Müncheberg, and he continues, «In our recent study, we were able to show that even so - called «ubiquitous species» will be facing massive threats in the future.&raquin Müncheberg, and he continues, «In our recent study, we were able to show that even so - called «ubiquitous species» will be facing massive threats in the future.&raquIn our recent study, we were able to show that even so - called «ubiquitous species» will be facing massive threats in the future.&raquin the future.»

The report, «Wildlife in a Changing World,» estimates that 22 percent of known mammals are either facing the threat of extinction or are already extinct.

The loggerhead sea turtle is listed as threatened (likely to become endangered, in danger of extinction, within the foreseeable future) under the U.S. Federal Endangered Species Act and internationally it is listed as endangered (facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

Australia has one of the highest rates of animal species that face extinction, decline or negative impacts from human behavior in the world.

Hirsch and his colleagues believe their findings offer some hope for trees in the face of inevitable modern mammalian extinctions.

Studying how ecosystems respond and adapt to changes can help us understand what will happen in the face of species extinction due to human encroachment and climate change.

Today, the need for a clear understanding of how biodiversity is created and maintained has intensified in the face of mass extinctions driven by human activity.

A new study of amphibians argues that growing smaller to take up less resources won't always help a species avoid extinction in the face of a shrinking habitat, climate change, and disease.

We are facing the extinction of glaciers and multi year sea ice in the Arctic.

Scientists have become increasingly concerned about threats to bees in recent years, with the International Union for Conservation of Nature stating in March that 10 % of Europe's native wild species could soon face extinction.

Many remnant populations of animals in the wild and in captive breeding programs are facing what is called an «extinction vortex,» as inbreeding forces them into an accelerating loss - of - fitness spiral.

Every species adapts through the generations to survive in its habitat, or else it faces extinction.

According to experts, more than a third of species are facing extinction and an estimated 60 percent of the earth's ecosystems have been degraded in the last 50 years.

The African elephant is classified as «vulnerable» and is facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

This sci - fi epic envisions a future world that has fallen into anarchy on the heels of an infertility defect in the population that has made humankind face the likelihood of its own extinction.

Aaron Eckhart stars as a very different monster in this adaptation of Kevin Grevioux «s graphic novel in which Frankenstein's creation comes to the defense of the human race as it faces extinction at the hands of immortal clans led by Bill Nighy and Miranda Otto.