Sentences with phrase «global threat to human»

However, these outbreaks still continue and antimicrobial resistance is becoming a global threat to human health.

«Antimicrobial resistance is a global threat to human and animal health with bacteria now resistant to the last - resort antibiotics, including carbapenems and polymyxins,» said corresponding author Ed Topp, PhD, Principal Research Scientist at Agriculture and Agri - Food, Canada, London, Ontario, describing the motivation for the research.

OTTAWA — Veterinary and human health doctors gathered at the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association's (CVMA) Summit of Veterinary Leaders to share knowledge about antibiotic resistance, one of the most serious global threats to human and animal health in the 21st century.

How else can the family of humanity address and overcome the global threats to human and environmental health that are ominously looming even now on the far horizon?

Not exact matches

«Yes, we must protect the environment — it is our number one resource — but at the end of the day, studies have pointed to global warming, human contact, coastal development» as other significant threats to coral.

Tribalism was an asset for human societies before globalization, but its persistence now constitutes a threat to the future race, if it prevents the evolution of one global society.

A global culture implies a wide - spread recognition that the coming crises threaten all humans equally, and requires an urgent collective response to the imminent threats to human survival.

And while they may not pose the same global threats as those in Greenland and Antarctica, which hold great potential to affect global sea levels in the future, there are still many human communities in their wake that stand to suffer from their loss.

The AAAS Board of Directors released a statement 18 February 2007 noting that «global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society.»

They argue that the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance is similar to that posed by climate change because it is a natural process exacerbated by human activity and the actions of one country can have global ramifications.

The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society.

While antibiotic resistance genes are not harmful in themselves, they limit the use of antibiotics for treating bacterial infections and pose a serious threat to global public health if they get transmitted to humans from environmental sources, such as compost.

Environment: The Conservative Party accepts human - induced global warming is a threat to the planet's life and pledges to reduce Britain's carbon emissions by 80 % by 2050.

Using the largest dated evolutionary tree of flowering plants ever assembled, a new study suggests how plants developed traits to withstand low temperatures, with implications that human - induced climate change may pose a bigger threat than initially thought to plants and global agriculture.

Bird flu viruses are potentially highly lethal and pose a global threat, but relatively little is known about why certain strains spread more easily to humans than others.

Claverie and Abergel are concerned that rising global temperatures, along with mining and drilling operations in the Arctic, could thaw out many more ancient viruses that are still infectious and that could conceivably pose a threat to human health.

Some other statistics: About half of the world's tropical forests have been cleared (FAO) Forests currently cover about 30 percent of the world's land mass (National Geographic) Forest loss contributes between 6 percent and 12 percent of annual global carbon dioxide emissions (Nature Geoscience) About 36 football fields worth of trees lost every minute (World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-RRB- Rain Forest Threats, Rain Forest Species More than half of Earth's rain forests have already been lost forever to the insatiable human demand for wood and arable land.

La Jolla, Calif., April 9, 2018 - Obesity is the second - leading preventable cause of cancer and represents one of the greatest threats to global human health.

Initially created by Tony Stark as a form of global protection from potential extraterrestrial threats, Ultron soon turned on his creator — and humanity as a whole — hoping to rid the planet of humans altogether.

The two threats, economic and environmental, tend to produce a real crisis of humanity that makes becomes an imperative the construction around the world of a new society different from the current that act interdependently with common goals and rational in every country and on a global scale without which it may be put into question the survival of humans and life on Earth.

Also students will research the effects of global warming and climate change and evaluate whether this is the biggest threat we face as humans Students will research destruction of natural resources — with an example of deforestation — and evaluate whether humans have the right to do what they want to the planet Students will then summarise our learning from this lesson and will answer some questions to demonstrate learning from this lesson

The Smithsonian Global Health Program works to combat threats to wildlife, human and ecosystem health through disease investigation, research, and both national and international capacity building.

The science pointing to long - term threats from human - caused global warming is laced with probabilities and some uncertainty, so it's not surprising that humanity is taking its time responding.

Now that the scientific consensus on climate change has been established by the IPCC, perhaps the time has come to reasonably and sensibly address the ominously looming threats to human wellbeing, biodiversity and environmental health that are posed by global warming.

The report extolls the value of the oil and gas sector to the Canadian economy, and adds that many environmentalists «claim» that climate change is the most serious global environmental threat, and «claim» it is a direct consequence of human activity and is «reportedly» linked to the use of fossil fuels.

Thanks for bringing attention to potential global threats to humanity, ones posed by the current huge scale and skyrocketing growth rate of human population numbers on Earth.

But President Bush's announcement Wednesday of a plan to halt growth in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, while not embracing all the enviro groups want, legitimizes their argument that global warming is caused by humans and an imminent threat to mankind.

Mitchell Taylor, a Canadian expert on polar bears who was in the specialists» group for many years, told some reporters that he was excluded this year because he disputes that the bears are in danger and that human - caused global warming poses a substantial threat to them.

«Czech President Vaclav Klaus said Tuesday he is ready to debate Al Gore about global warming, as he presented the English version of his latest book that argues environmentalism poses a threat to basic human freedoms.

Anyone who thinks that there is any genuine «debate» about either the reality of anthropogenic global warming and consequent climate change, or the grave threat not only to human civilization but to all life on earth if unmitigated, «business as usual» anthropogenic global warming and consequent climate change are permitted to continue, is profoundly misinformed.

-- an early attempt to examine why humans have a hard time with looming threats like global warming.

While pressing for cuts in greenhouse - gas emissions and better efforts to control hunting, both legal and illegal, the participating scientists concluded on an optimistic note, saying they were «optimistic that humans can mitigate the effects of global warming and other threats to polar bears, and ensure that they remain a part of the Arctic ecosystem in perpetuity.»

Quote: Czech President Vaclav Klaus said Tuesday in the USA that he is ready to debate Al Gore about global warming, as he presented the English translation of his latest Czech - language book that argues that environmentalism poses a threat to basic human freedoms.

But since then, while the agency went on to propose listing the species as threatened (a step below endangered), Dirk Kempthorne, the Secretary of the Interior, has refused to draw a line between human - caused warming of the global climate and the retreating ice that Dr. Amstrup and other government biologists say poses the biggest threat to the bears.

So long as we humans believe in our own supremacy and adaptability — that somehow, some way humanity will survive virtually anything thrown our way — then no amount of pontificating on the threat of global warming or any other danger, man - made or otherwise, will suffice to change our path.

Thirteen of the world's scientific academies have issued joint statements calling on humanity to act meaningfully to curb health risks attending both poverty and prosperity and limit the threat posed by human - driven global warming.

While warnings of an exploding global «population bomb» have not played out, high fertility rates are still a big driver of rising human vulnerability to environmental threats in the world's poorest places.

In Andy's article on Wednesday, «Strong Action Urged to Curb Warming», we are told that «The scientific academies of 13 countries on Tuesday urged the world to act more forcefully to limit the threat posed by human - driven global warming.»

I am able to suppose for the first time that these self - proclaimed masters of the universe will shortly stand out as an ominously looming threat to humanity, every bit as serious a threat to human wellbeing as global warming.

Climate change posed a threat to global food stocks, and to human security, the blockbuster report said.

It's about what could be expected from an establishment candidate that believes human - caused climate change is a growing threat to global stability, but nowhere near what science and international equity dictates is necessary.

You could add that evidence as to the reality of, and the threat posed by, human - induced global warming has emerged from a well established official expert advisory process, and in particular, within that process, from the series of massive Assessment Reports issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC).

Report: UN warns of threat to human progress; Transient Middle Eocene Atmospheric CO2 and Temperature Variations; Climate scientists plan campaign against global warming skeptics; Inaccurate news reports misrepresent AGU climate - science initiative; climate crisis is no crisis (media confusion); ClimateGate One Year Later; Energy & Environment Hearing; Philippines: Aquino calls for lifestyle change

These are human responses to big existential threats to the biosphere and ultimately Homo sapiens itself, including global warming, natural resource depletion, the 6th mass extinction and the destruction of marine ecosystems.

Many of the ecosystem threats to human health are global and will require long - term, trans - boundary solutions, with climate change being the most prominent of those threats.

If a root cause of the global threats on humanity's horizon now is the unbridled growth of absolute global human population numbers, our willful denial of this primary cause could make it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the children to reasonably address and sensibly overcome these threats.

American Association for the Advancement of Science «The scientific evidence is clear: global climate change caused by human activities is occurring now, and it is a growing threat to society.»

This time, the group's focus moves beyond melting glaciers and threats to plants and animals and puts the crisis in terms most likely to resonate with humans: If it hasn't already, global warming is coming to where you live.

«Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course... If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future we wish for human society... No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished... A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.&rHuman beings and the natural world are on a collision course... If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future we wish for human society... No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished... A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.&rhuman society... No more than one or a few decades remain before the chance to avert the threats we now confront will be lost and the prospects for humanity immeasurably diminished... A great change in our stewardship of the earth and the life on it is required if vast human misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.&rhuman misery is to be avoided and our global home on this planet is not to be irretrievably mutilated.»

Mr. Dickson wrote passionately about several areas in climate science that troubled him, including: first, the idea that 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is real, caused by humans, and a threat; second, the idea that government agencies had manipulated temperature records to fit a narrative of warming; and third, that China is developing its coal resources so fast that nothing short of radical population control will save us, if burning fossil fuels really does cause global warming.