Sentences with phrase «global extinction by»

Long - tailed duck is listed as vulnerable to global extinction by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and relies heavily on Massachusetts» coast for its overwintering habitat.

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The entire amphibian class is currently afflicted by a global pandemic that is accelerating extinction at an alarming rate.

Evidence left at the crime scene is abundant and global: Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on Earth were suddenly wiped out — by far the largest of this planet's five known mass extinctions.

Or is minimizing alterations to the global environment introduced by human activity — rising levels of CO2 from fossil - fuel burning, widespread extinction, dams that impound water — more important to our success?

The untimely extinction of the golden toad in a Costa Rican rainforest in the late 1980s just may have been the first in a long list of species driven to extinction by global warming.

Rising sea levels caused by global warming could fuel more volcanic eruptions, possibly resulting in mass extinctions

«We show that even if deforestation had completely halted in 2010, time lags ensured there would still be a carbon emissions debt equivalent to five to ten years of global deforestation and an extinction debt of more than 140 bird, mammal, and amphibian forest - specific species, which, if paid, would increase the number of 20th century extinctions in these groups by 120 percent,» says Isabel Rosa (@isamdr86) of the Imperial College of London.

If even a small proportion of the methane they produce is released, we might be overwhelmed by huge tsunamis, runaway global warming, and extinctions.

«This is the strongest evidence from fossils that the main driver of this extinction event was the after - effects of a huge asteroid impact, rather than a slower decline caused by natural changes to the climate or by severe volcanism stressing global environments.»

Thirty - one percent of cactus species are threatened with extinction, according to the first comprehensive, global assessment of the species group by IUCN and partners, published in the journal Nature Plants.

The IUCN analysis also notes that between one - third and one - half of bird, coral and amphibian species not currently threatened by extinction are «susceptible» to global warming.

Betts and a team of researchers at Oregon State and BirdLife International, a nonprofit organization, reached their conclusions by analyzing global datasets of forest habitat and species extinction risk.

What would the reason be for this dramatic slowdown in species losses if the extinction rate is determined by global warming?

Global warming will also mean more forest fires; hurricanes hitting cities that are at present too far north of the equator to be affected by them; tropical diseases spreading beyond their present zones; the extinction of species unable to adapt to warmer temperatures; retreating glaciers and melting polar icecaps; and rising seas inundating coastal areas.

Many tropical insects face extinction by the end of this century unless they adapt to the rising global temperatures predicted, US scientists have said.

The only time period that remotely resembles the ocean changes happening today, based on geologic records, was 56 million years ago when carbon mysteriously doubled in the atmosphere, global temperatures rose by approximately six degrees and ocean pH dropped sharply, driving up ocean acidity and causing a mass extinction among single - celled ocean organisms.

Now the question is, can the real climate scientists come forward and present the truth about global warming, or are we in for more ridiculous predictions about an ice free arctic by 2013 and the extinction of polar bears?

Based on regional studies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change by 2050.

Human evolution is characterised by speciation, extinction and dispersal events that can not currently be explained by global or regional paleoclimate records [1]--[3].

Read more: Dinosaur Extinction: Chicxulub Asteroid Caused a Global Winter With Temperatures Plummeting by 47 Degrees

Even in the end Cretaceous extinction, in which dinosaurs were finally wiped out by an asteroid impact, a major global - warming extinction event was already underway causing a major extinction within 150,000 years of the impact.

An ex-con and radical environmentalist, Michael is so terrified by the implications of global warming that he wants Mary to abort their unborn child, rather than bring an innocent soul into a world swiftly headed for its next mass extinction.

Extinction's $ 1.1 billion global gross is the 11th biggest on record and this year's # 1 showing by an extremely comfortable margin.

With one out of every five living things on this planet committed to extinction by the levels of greenhouse gases that will accumulate in the next few decades, we are reaching a global climatic tipping point.

The resulting collapse / convergence in global interest rates & spreads, the implacable compression & decline in volatility / momentum, the restriction / regulation of banks» proprietary risk, numerous FX scandals, the replacement of human traders by algo - trading, the near extinction of FX & macro funds, all served to disrupt and suppress currency for return & dynamic hedging strategies.

Felines accompanying their human companions have gone on to prey on the local wildlife, and they have been blamed for the global extinction of 33 species.Jan 29, 2013 How many birds are killed by cats every year?

John Akomfrah's environmentally conscious video installation, Purple, offers dialogues about climate change by foregrounding issues such as global warming, animal extinctions and the plastic ocean.

The extinction crisis that is underway, precipitated by humanity, is at least equal to global warming in its potential to destabilize the biosphere — to make the planet less habitable to us and many of our fellow species.

Global warming brought on by increased atmospheric CO2 from volcanism is thought to be the cause of this extinction.

The ecological limits of the planet are now in clear view, as expressed by the combination of climate change, peak oil (the end of the era of cheap energy), and overall global resource depletion and extinctions.

The figures marked the opening of the International Tiger Conservation Conference, a three day meeting following on the heels of the groundbreaking Global Tiger Recovery Programme (GTRP), a worldwide plan to bring the species back from the brink of extinction which was forged in November 2010 at an international tiger conservation meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia organized by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

«Based on these studies, and many others using fossil and historical records, we argue that evidence for the widely cited view that future climate change poses an equal or greater threat to global biodiversity than anthropogenic land - use change and habitat loss (Thomas et al., 2004) is equivocal: extinctions driven by the latter processes of habitat loss pose a far greater threat to global biodiversity.

They've also tried to test the greenhouse value of the Endangered Species Act by asserting that wildlife including several sea turtle species and, of course, polar bears faced extinction through global warming.

You can key in words related to your interests, i.e., «global warming», «species extinction», «impeach George W. Bush» and the Times notifies you by email when an article or articles relative to those interests are written.

Another case in point is the overstatement of findings of amphibian extinctions driven by global warming in a National Science Foundation press release (and many subsequent press accounts) and the resulting coverage.

The Amazon is referred to as a climate tipping point because research shows following a 21st century global average temperature rise most of the Amazon basin may dry out, leading to a massive biome shift — accompanied by many gigatonnes of extra CO2 emissions and almost unimaginable biodiversity loss, placing the cascading Anthropocene Extinction in top gear.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK - A history of fire suppression, an invasive fungal plague, and rampant insect infestation fueled by global warming add up to likely extinction for the whitebark pine and serious trouble for the grizzly bear and other species that depend on it, some scientists say.

While forecasting the state of the environment more than 80 years into the future is a notoriously inexact exercise, academics gathered by the the United Nations at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are concerned the world is headed for «extensive» species extinctions, serious crop damage and irreversible increases in sea levels even before Trump started to unpick the fight against global warming.

«Globally about 20 to 30 %... of species will be at increasingly high risk of extinction, possibly by 2100, as global mean temperatures exceed 2 to 3 °C above pre-industrial levels.»

A federal judge orders the Obama administration to clarify a 2008 decision by the Bush administration that said the polar bear was threatened by global warming but not in imminent danger of extinction.

But in 2002, Markus Dyck asked me to examine independently these strange and insupportable claims by environmental extremists that polar bears are threatened with extinction by global warming.

Pounds, J.A., et al., (2006) Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming.

«Despite posited «threats of extinctions caused by global warming», 221 new species described by the California Academy of Sciences in 2014 ″ (2014-12-29).

With nothing more than untested speculation, the Golden Toad became the poster child for extinction by CO2 — caused global warming, and Alan Pounds joined Camille Parmesan among a very small select group of biologists invited to serve on the Nobel - prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

So Nature published Pounds» more adamant connection to CO2 in «Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming».17 Embodying the forceful storyteller Pounds boldly stated, «we conclude with «very high confidence» (> 99 %, following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) that large - scale warming is a key factor in the disappearances.

Led by global paper giants APP and APRIL, the pulp, paper and palm oil industries are driving Riau's Sumatran tigers and elephants to local extinction in just a few years by destroying their habitat, the study found.

When the earth's temperature rises on average by more than two degrees, interactions between different consequences of global warming (reduction in the area of arable land, unexpected crop failures, extinction of diverse plant and animal species) combined with increasing populations mean that hundreds of millions of people may die from starvation or disease in future famines.

Only separated by tens of millions of years there was catastrophe — on a global scale — the scale that leaves dents in the fossil record: mass extinctions.

An extinction that was said to be caused without a doubt by global warming.

For more than a decade, EU countries led by Britain have set a rise of two degrees centigrade or less in global temperatures above pre-industrial levels as the benchmark after which the effects of climate become devastating, with crop failures, water shortages, sea - level rises, species extinctions and increased disease.