Sentences with phrase «growing human footprint»

I hope the center continues to run at the inspired rate it has been — drastic measures like this very well may be what's needed to slow the growing human footprint on Galapagos.

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;

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When you produce 97 % of your own food, compost all manure (human and animal), make your own clothing, shoes, diapers, wraps, menstrual pads, washable toilet paper, soaps, lanolin, and herbal tinctures, and grow your animals feed, make your house out of a recycled tobacco barn with reclaimed building materials, have no electricity (even solar panels / wind generators leave a huge footprint from manufacture), water coming from your spring / creek, home school your children without fancy curriculum, make your living from your land and being a home birth midwife, etc... then you will see what real life could be.

Impressions left by a large claw on the innermost toe on the dinosaur's front foot (the analog of the human thumb) indicate that the still - unknown species was located near the base of the sauropod family tree, and the sizes of the footprints — in some cases 70 centimeters across — suggest that the behemoths grew to reach 15 meters in length and weighed up to 10 metric tons, the researchers report online today in the Scottish Journal of Geology.

Given that the world population is still growing by about 200,000 people a day, and the ecological footprint of the human race already lies beyond the limits of sustainability, fewer European mega-consumers will be a blessing for the health of the planet — and fewer North Americans would...

Besides, there's a growing scientific consensus that the contemporary human footprint — our cities, suburban sprawl, dams, agriculture, greenhouse gases, etc. — has so massively transformed the planet as to usher in a new geological epoch.

There is growing observational data, physical analysis of possible mechanisms, and model agreement that human - caused climate change is strengthening atmospheric circulation patterns in a way «which implies that the periodic and inevitable droughts California will experience will exhibit more severity...» «there is a traceable anthropogenic warming footprint in the enormous intensity of the anomalous ridge during winter 2013 — 2014 and the associated drought.»

«But this could become a problem in more places as human footprint on the landscape grows.»

Interestingly, controlling graft was also highlighted by Venter and colleagues (2016) as a factor influencing why economically growing countries have differential human - footprint outcomes between 1993 and 2009; lower corruption scores and greater urbanization percentages were associated with decreased human influence at the national scale.