Sentences with phrase «future habitability»

The bottom line though happens to be the future habitability of the only planet to host life as we know it in the universe, including the continuation of a cohesive human society and the maintenance of the biodiversity on which we rely.

Scientists say the future habitability of the Earth might well depend on the answer.

No predictions were made as to the future habitability of the Town of Tangier at 2100 or the types of habitat (upland or wetland) that might be present, though study authors did note that interior water had increased over time and that present upland ridges may need to be raised in the future.

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Today the salvation that concerns me most is the salvation of the Earth and its inhabitants from the destructive actions of human beings who threaten to destroy its habitability for future generations.

«This will ensure that Cassini can not contaminate any future studies of habitability and potential life on those moons.»

We suggest that the habitability of red dwarf systems may peak in the far future, while the present time is optimal for habitability around yellow and orange dwarf stars.

«Our results expose a specific regional hot spot where climate change, in the absence of significant [carbon cuts], is likely to severely impact human habitability in the future,» said Jeremy Pal and Elfatih Eltahir of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writing in the journal Nature Climate Change.

The new study marks an important development in our ability to assess the habitability of distant celestial objects, while setting the stage for future missions.

In this review we provide a comprehensive picture of the current knowledge of M - dwarf planet occurrence and habitability based on work done in this area over the past decade, and summarize future directions planned in this quickly evolving field.

«Our results expose a specific regional hotspot where climate change, in the absence of significant mitigation, is likely to severely impact human habitability in the future,» they say.

It will be attached to the belly pan of the Mars 2020 rover, a wheeled robot that aims to determine the habitability of the Martian environment, search for signs of ancient life, and assess natural resources and hazards for future human explorers.

Three - dimensional (3D) planetary general circulation models (GCMs) derived from the models that we use to project 21st Century changes in Earth's climate can now be used to address outstanding questions about how Earth became and remained habitable despite wide swings in solar radiation, atmospheric chemistry, and other climate forcings; whether these different eras of habitability manifest themselves in signals that might be detected from a great distance; whether and how planets such as Mars and Venus were habitable in the past; how common habitable exoplanets might be; and how we might best answer this question with future observations.