Sentences with phrase «from human settlements»

When Rose, his lover, was attacked by humans for the ruby tears she sheds as an elf, he protected her by concealing her in a small fortress he built far away from human settlements.

But essentially these are the dogs that have lived a free - ranging life, foraging on the outskirts of or entirely away from human settlements and changing little over the course of their history.

The «American dingo» was discovered in the 1970s living wild in isolated stretches of the southeast United States away from human settlements.

Still as of today, this breed is used to keep bears away from human settlements.

They want the bears to identify humans and dogs as enemies, so the bears decide to keep away from human settlements... and they will teach that to their cubs.

It suggests that the early hunter - gatherer settlements transformed ecological interactions and food webs, allowing house mice that benefited from human settlements to out - compete wild mice and establish themselves as the dominant population.

Not exact matches

Turns out those human aliens don't love Earth very much, as the off - world Settlement Defense Front decides to wage war against the third rock from the sun.

In the name of nation - building, they boosted «good human material» and deplored its opposite: Agricultural settlement was progressive, petit - bourgeois occupations were not; European Jews were good, while Jews from Muslim countries were «primitive.»

One of these possible consequences was the separation of fas, the religious command, from jus, the established law for the settlement of such human conflicts which had no religious relevance.

Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and other nearby outposts can survive on supplies shipped from Earth, but for any human settlement to persist farther out, the thin thread of an Earth - based supply chain will prove dangerously fragile.

Some 11,000 years ago, humans living in the ancient Middle East region called the Fertile Crescent shifted from a nomadic existence, based on hunting game and gathering wild plants, to a more sedentary lifestyle that would later give rise to permanent settlements.

Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is an especially great place for African wildcats, the researchers note, because it's big and isolated from humans — the closest human settlement is 10 kilometers from the park's boundaries.

J. You / Science; Data: «Climatic signals in multiple highly resolved stable isotope records from Greenland,» Vinther et al, 3 November 2009; «Norse Greenland settlement,» Dugmore et al., 2007; «Human diet and subsistence patterns in Norse Greenland AD c. 980 — AD c. 1450,» Arneborg et al. 2012

Although the origin of settlements and of agriculture is usually seen in economic and environmental terms — as the discovery of a new process whereby human beings could extract a living from their surroundings — Hodder sees it post-processually.

In treeless areas, such geographic features often indicate ancient settlements formed from mud - brick structures that later human occupation has compressed over time into artificial hills.

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.

Using a combination of satellite and ground data, the team can map multiple indicators of monkey distribution, including human activity zones as inferred from roads and settlements, direct detections from mosquito - derived iDNA, animal sound recordings, plus detections of other species that are usually found when monkeys are present, such as other large vertebrates.

David Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University and Graeme Ruxton of the University of St Andrews, both in the UK, used population estimates from the early settlement of Polynesia to model the likely success of island settlement attempts in human prehistory.

The study's findings may help conservationists, the scientists say, as the elephants face new pressures from climate change and human settlements.

A previous study on human settlement, led by Balloux, estimated human emergence from the same locale to have occurred 51,500 to 61,500 years ago.

When researchers in Sweden found some mother bears and their cubs living near human settlements, they wondered whether it might be a reproductive strategy — a way of protecting their young from killer males.

Deer have fared much better under heavy human settlement in the east — aside from predator removal, roads and housing slice the forest into pieces, providing forage at sunlit edges and cover in the woods.

«Los Angeles mountain lions hunt closer to human settlements than expected: While male lions prey on deer in riparian woodlands, females hunt on average less than a mile from human development.»

Mountain lions hunt their mule deer prey closer to human settlements around Los Angeles than locations randomly distributed across their home ranges, according to a study published July 13, 2016 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by John Benson from the University of California, Los Angeles, US, and colleagues.

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.

«This settlement resolves the parties» various patent disputes worldwide with respect to human definitive endoderm cells from human pluripotent stem cells.

We analyzed human coprolites from the Huecoid and Saladoid cultures from a settlement on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico.

It's been confirmed that humans were eating onions 7000 years ago, since old preserved onions have been found in human settlements from 5000BC alongside stones from figs and dates.

Remarkably, investigations of highly preserved human coprolites (ancient stool samples retrieved from archeological sites) have demonstrated that their overall microbiome more closely resembles that of modern humans living in traditional rural settlements than that of the contemporary urban dweller [117].

From Wikipedia: Permaculture is a theory of ecological design which seeks to develop sustainable human settlements and agricultural systems, by attempting to model them on natural ecosystems.

On the planet Draco, colonized by refugees from Earth, a mysterious indigenous dragon is spreading the Crimsonscale disease, laying waste to human settlements.

It is estimated that dogs have domesticated and separated from gray wolves about 15,000 years ago, when they started frequenting human settlements.

Prior to retirement from the public service, she served as Director General of Human Resources and Transition Management, helping staff fulfill commitments to survivors under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.

These threats include siltation from soil erosion, increased abstraction of water in the catchment, degradation of land, deforestation, growth in human settlements, overgrazing, wildlife management, tourism and pollution coming from Nakuru town.

The approximately 450 sand and mangrove cays confined within the barrier and atolls range in size from small, ephemeral sand spits to larger, permanent islands capable of sustaining human settlements.

Chompshire A mysterious settlement built deep in the woods, far from prying human eyes.

Already in Early Access, this player - vs - AI strategy game sees you charged with trying to build and protect a human settlement from thousands of zombies.

After the dust from the asteroid settles, humans begin to emerge from these arks to find a strange, hostile world and begin to form settlements.

A quiet settlement somewhere far away from the monsters (both human and undead), where she can live in peace and try to process the shocking events she's experienced over the course of her short life (which, on my file, includes eating human flesh.

Introduced into their culture via the Xi'an settlement on Oya III, the inhabitants there learned to love riding space bikes from their Human neighbors.

As you progress, you'll face increasingly tough challenges, from a few puny humans trying in vain to defend their settlements, to huge battleships and clashes with other gigantic kaiju.

From 1995 - 2013, she worked for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme UN-HABITAT as leader of the centre for expertise for Central and Eastern Europe.

As water can exist in several distinct states (solid, liquid or gas) and move from one to another, a human society may also be seen as a material capable of undergoing these changes of states as it reaches critical mass in terms of density of settlement, amount of energy consumed or even intensity of interaction.

2016 These Strangers... Painting and People, Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium Los Angeles: A Fiction, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Thierry Raspail, and Nicolas Garait, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway; traveled to Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon, France Route to (Re) Settlement, curated by Cecelia Stucker and Kimberly Light, Mann - Simons Site, Columbia, SC A Shape That Stands Up, Hammer Museum at Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA 30 Americans, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Non-Fiction, curated by Noah Davis, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Intimisms, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY Nothing Compares to You, Works from the Collection of Martin & Rebecca Eisenberg, Riverview School, Cape Cod, MA Making & Unmaking, curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK Dimensions of Black, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; traveled to The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis, CA

According to the latest science, in most cases (outside of extreme heat waves) the connections between today's extreme weather events and human - driven climate change range from weak (hurricanes) to nil (tornadoes)-- and the dominant driver of losses in such events is fast - paced development or settlement in places with fundamental climatic or coastal vulnerability.

This week, it was announced that a joint plan from the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to promote energy

I learned this from James Ekwam, a talented young photographer from Mathare (trained through a fantastic home - grown photography program created by Julius Mwelu, a Mathare native who is a photographer for the United Nations Human Settlements Program).

«Climate Change» is a general term used when referring to a wide range of effects brought about by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and «heat island effects» resulting from buildings and pavement in the major human settlements.

As if the world's land, 25 % of which is already becoming seriously degraded, does not have enough pressures from deforestation, industrial agriculture and sprawling human settlements.

For one, growing human settlements have displaced the antelope from its dry - season habitat along Kenya's Tana River, Dahiye said.