Sentences with phrase «from human habitats»

The Okarian's trek across the Arctic offers a ray of hope: Spores might not make it very far from human habitats.

To figure out a safe distance, scientists need to know how well Earth microbes would survive on Mars in the first place, and how far those organisms would spread from a human habitat.

Not exact matches

We now know that nature can not take care of itself, that human beings can degrade it not only locally but globally, that the species God created and saved from the flood are threatened by human expansion into their habitats, destruction of their food supplies, pollution of their air and water, and excessive hunting and fishing.

We can not be sure that The Flood had no relationship to all flesh around that area having «corrupted its way»... The very protection of mankind from natural disasters that were inevitable from the contingent, limited perfection of the planet Earth as a habitat, might well have been mediated to human communities by great prophetic souls, even as Christ prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem as a consequence of his rejection, and because «in the day of your visitation, you did not know the things that were to your peace».

The DSWT organization fosters baby elephants who have been separated from their mothers due to poaching or from the loss of their natural habitat due to human conflict, drought or deforestation.

Spouses Ann T. Septick and Clea N. Liness created a hermetically sealed habitat for themselves and their family to protect them from ever getting sick, a move prompted by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services» (HHS) recent anti-LGBTQ moves.

Given the knowledge that they are crapping in their own habitat with their carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning on Earth, I'd like to think humans have gained an evolutionary advantage which canines lack.

That cynical moment turned a very important human value upside down in the sense that, from that moment, as they stepped in and decided to just move into the capital and literarily destroyed so much human life and natural habitat, I told the world in one sentence that, the right of might now supersedes the might of right.

Orangutan numbers on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo plummeted from 1999 to 2015, more as a result of human hunting than habitat loss, an international research team finds.

The species ranges from central Mexico to Nicaragua, a habitat threatened by human activities, Erenler notes.

Natural habitats and ecosystems have been dramatically altered from their original states, and there is rising concern about the spread of diseases that can be passed from urban wildlife to humans.

The resulting animations vividly depict how the noise from human activities physically obstructs and reduces whales» habitat, interfering with what Clark calls the animals» «communication space.»

Unlike many bird species that are now extinct on the Earth's small islands, the Eastern Bluebird and the Hispaniolan Crossbill disappeared long before the first people arrived, uncoupling their extinction from human actions, such as the introduction of new predators and habitat loss for agricultural use.

If the extinction trend continues apace, modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation.

But some researchers have argued that the transition from the frigid climatic period known as the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)-- about 20,000 to 25,000 years ago — to the current warm Holocene Epoch brought habitat changes that killed off the mammoths with little or no help from humans.

These events appear to be the result of human encroachment into the monkeys» natural habitat, and probably resulted from transfer of human bacteria from hands to food that was then fed to monkeys, according to the report.

But the most damaged and changing places would need everything from habitat restoration to potential human - assisted movement of species.

The result of the study was clear: Species from European habitats that have been highly changed by humans, such as fields and fallow land, were extremely successful in the conquest of other continents.

That has squeezed out the Quino checkerspot butterfly's habitat, and with the climate changes coming as a result of human greenhouse gas emissions, its listing as an endangered species by the U.S. government may not be enough to save the pretty little butterfly from extinction.

Dr Kerry Howell, Associate Professor at Plymouth University's Marine Institute, said: «This survey has shown that human litter is present in all marine habitats, from beaches to the most remote and deepest parts of the oceans.

Nitrate can go from helpful to harmful, choking fish and their habitat by stealing oxygen, and contaminating human drinking water.

Population pressure from the reserve's human residents is to blame for most of the destruction of the forest and panda habitat, the scientists say.

The report, compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), shows that well over half the threats to tree species arise from loss of habitat, due to agriculture or human settlement.

The latest review of primate survival prospects shows that habitat loss from farming and human expansion is putting our closest evolutionary relatives at risk

Deforestation of the Amazon is forcing thousands of bats from their natural habitat and into close contact with humans.

«A lot of people think the loss or degradation of habitat is the big threat to wild animals, but here it shows there is a major threat from direct exploitation by humans,» Ripple says.

The team of researchers from Germany, UK and Austria, led by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), found that apart from the crew who were the main source of human - associated bacteria inside the habitat, confinement appeared to be the strongest trigger shaping the bacterial community — the microbiota — which remained highly dynamic over time.

This settlement existed from approximately 7,100 to 6,000 BC and is considered to be the most significant site in the Near East that affords any insight into the development of human habitats.

Many of their caves are inaccessible to humans, but telltale DNA from bits of shed skin or their faeces — known as environmental DNA or eDNA — gets dissolved in their watery habitat.

Express strong concern about the increasing threats arising from growing human footprint and climate change to the survival of snow leopards and associated mountain biodiversity and to the maintenance of watershed and ecosystem services their habitats provide;

«In these habitats, the natural pollutants give us a glimpse into the future and help us think about what happens in ecosystems that suffer from human - induced changes or pollution,» he said.

Aside from the obvious fact that there could hardly be a worse approach to climate change, it certainly won't help address the equally important ecological destruction that is a result of human overshoot — habitat destruction, ocean acidification, over-fishing, logging, pollution, etc..

Why do mentally - unbalanced and psychotic cat - advocates always presume that if someone is removing a highly destructive, deadly disease spreading, human - engineered invasive - species from the native habitat to restore it back into natural balance that they must hate that organism?

About 15 million of the national human population of 23 million people live in the intensely urbanized Taipei area, at the extreme north of the island nation, where most of the dogs and cats are pets, or are descended from lost or abandoned pets, in an environment affording some suitable habitat for feral cats, but little or none for street dogs.

We all know that the real danger to wildlife is from human activity in the form of destructive unchecked development and resulting loss of habitat, road kill, environmental toxins and misguided government programs.

Wild bird populations, like many wild animal populations, are under extreme pressure worldwide, mostly from human practices and habitat destruction.

According to Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the largest threat to birds is loss (or degradation) of habitat, which results from human development and agriculture.

They also feed on human food refuse, in human - altered habitats including landfills, and taking food from people at marinas and beaches.

Lunar lava tubes have been discovered [5] and have been studied as possible human habitats, providing natural shielding from radiation.

Some of the earliest evidence for human use of marine resources, coming from Middle Stone Age sites in South Africa, includes the harvesting of foods such as abalones, limpets, and mussels associated with kelp forest habitats.

All visitors and hikers in Cape Scott must be extremely mindful about how they recreate in coastal wolf habitat to help prevent wolves from becoming habituated to humans and conditioned to attractants.

In addition to their incredible value as wildlife habitats, coral reefs protect coastlines from storms and provide billions of dollars of food and jobs for humans around the world.

The black and white photography series of Renos Evryviades - Wideson (b. 1920) Buffavento Castle (1950), Harvest Time (1953), and St. Hilarion Castle - Aerial (1955) as well as Zenon Sierepeklis» (b. 1947) Latchi (1998/99), Terra (1999), and Latchi (2002) unfold the transition from documentary and landscape photography to a more conceptual rendering of space imbued through the aesthetics of industrialization and monumentality as a result of human intervention on natural habitats.

There was a Russian geochemist, Vladimir Vernadsky, who in the 1930's foresaw a day when the globe evolved from simply being a common habitat for myriad species to being what he called a «noosphere,» a planet of the mind, a place where ecology and enlightened human intelligence meld.

the chart fails to show that soy from brazil, the stuff served in that meatless urban restraunt menu, has many times the embodied energy of eating local grass fed beef, that the corn suggested as least energy consuming is only so due to vast scales of industrial monocroping that wipes out diversity and local edible foods habitat (and is used largely for pig and cow fodder if not biofuels, and so lays waste to half the midwest), that milk from a pastured cow or goat, or eggs from pastured chickens, are gaining thier energy from sources no human could eat.

Orangutans, which some scientists believe are second only to humans in intelligence, could be the first great ape to go extinct if swift action isn't taken to conserve their rainforest habitat and protect them from poachers, according to a new survey.

Dignitaries and participating organizations pledged new support for controls on poaching, efforts to limit tiger - human clashes in populous areas and steps to conserve habitat, with money coming both from the 13 countries where tigers still roam and nations whose citizens desire a world with room for wild tigers.

Human alteration of environments produces multiple effects, some advantageous to societies, such as enhanced food production, and some detrimental, like environmental pollution with toxic chemicals, excess nutrients and carbon emissions from fossil fuels, and the loss of wildlife and their habitats.

The other beaches are habitat for the endangered and threatened species of the atoll who need some space away from humans, so they are cleaned only when clear of animals like Hawaiian monk seals and Green sea turtles.

«Humans already interfere - massively - with Nature in diverse ways ranging from uncontrolled habitat destruction to «rewilding», big - cat captive breeding programs, the eradication of blindness - causing parasitic worms, and so forth,» added Pearce.