Sentences with phrase «growing human population»

The rapidly growing human population can feed itself without worsening climate change by destroying the planet's forests, researchers say.

And they are elevating the incidence of disease as growing human populations are more susceptible to the effects of environmental change.

It's also a potential source of abundant, life - sustaining protein to support growing human populations and the demand for food.

Growing a human population in Madagascar that needs to cultivate land and wants to cut more forested area, monkey homes, has become disrespectful to animal life.

In many parts of the world, water supplies are under increasing pressure from growing human population, demographic changes and climate change, which is changing the rules by which rivers, rain and snowfall, and annual storms have operated for thousands of years.

«We recommend acting quickly, because pressure to over-exploit deep reefs will inevitably grow as shallow reefs become almost universally degraded due to growing human population pressures and climate change,» says co-author Dr. John Guinotte from the Marine Conservation Institute.

Rapidly growing human populations threaten its native habitats.

Growing human populations place a higher demand on water, while warmer winters and earlier springs reduce snowpack and water supplies.

The inescapable fact is that an ever - growing human population requires prodigious amounts of energy and food.

Growing human populations often mean more households with pets, overcrowded shelters, and tight spaces at dog parks and other play areas.

I encourage you to read the entire note, given that the issues explored by DeLisi are relevant around the world, and given the reality that a mix of technologies and techniques is going to be required in most places to satisfy growing human populations and appetites without consuming ever more land needed either for wildlife or human settlements.

I predict that down the road, time-wise, we will be striving to strengthen CO2 in greenhouse gases in the attempt to head off recurring Pleistocene Ice Age # 6, and increase plant growth to feed the ever - growing human population simultaneously.

The Earth can not sustain a relentlessly growing human population, so a family planning clinic is needed in every neighborhood in every town and city around the World, and each woman must be given the legally protected right to decide if and when to birth her children.

With the advent of growing human population and associated demand for wood (Ie: fueling the Roman baths and ship building), these forests were clear felled.

Our friends on Green Inc. have posted on a new analysis of challenges facing farmers trying to keep up with growing human populations and appetites:

«For instance, there are huge conflict areas in sub-Saharan Africa, because it has vital wildlife habitats but a very rapidly growing human population that will need more food and more roads.»

These odd sentences — and that is all they are — are just inserted into sections whose main point always is to stress the need to manage resources to meet the needs of a growing human population.

Until human beings develop room - temperature superconductivity, cold fusion, and matter to energy / energy to matter technologies, there will NEVER be enough resources to support the needs of earth's EVER - growing human population.

«We face the challenge of feeding a growing human population, and aquaculture is viewed as a solution due to favorable feed efficiency compared to livestock,» said Jillian Fry, PhD, director of the Public Health and Sustainable Aquaculture Project at the Center for a Livable Future and faculty member in the Bloomberg School's Department of Environmental Health and Engineering.

Landsat 8 will help scientists and policy makers better understand how the growing human population is affecting the planet

However, the growing human population in the region coupled with the expansion of extractive industries and industrial agriculture are putting increasing pressure on the remaining great apes — so additional conservation measures are urgently required.

«With the growing human population and concerns for meeting the global food crisis in the coming decades, invasive plants and their microbiomes might turn out to be useful for enhancing crop yields.»

Habitat loss driven by the region's growing human population and the expansion of extractive industries and industrial agriculture is another danger to great apes.

«You have this train wreck where we're drying up streams to feed a growing human population of more than 7 billion people,» Fausch said.

Fearing that the best efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions may fail, or that planetary climate feedback mechanisms will accelerate warming, some scientists and economists are considering not only what this world of the future might be like, but how it could sustain a growing human population.

Feeding and housing a growing human population when seas are rising and extreme weather hits will be hard — but manageable if we take the right decisions now

Finally, the paper outlines the effects of an expansion in trade from the Bronze Age onwards, with a period of intense farming in response to growing human populations and emerging markets across the Old World.

It could eventually help address society's critical challenge of feeding a growing human population while protecting the environment.

While many ethnic groups have hunted wildlife for subsistence over millennia, often with highly detrimental effects [8], the unsustainablility of this practice has accelerated in many areas due to growing human populations, an increasing tendency for wild meat to be traded commercially [9], and the widespread adoption of firearms and motorized transport that increase the efficiency and spatial extent of hunting [10,11].

Plant science is needed more today than ever before to help meet the demands of a rapidly growing human population and the disruptions of climate change.

The challenges of sustainable food production without damaging the environment for a growing human population have increased considerably.

With climate change and growing human population rapidly re-shaping plant distributions, the database called COMPADRE Plant Matrix, will foster collaborations between scientists, said the researchers.

As the pet food industry continues to compete with a growing human population for protein sources, and pet food companies and consumers continue to seek novel proteins, insects could potentially provide many solutions.

My take is that the tug of war over what's causing today's telegenic heat waves, floods, tempests — and even Arctic sea - ice retreats — distracts from the high confidence scientists have in the long - term (but less sexy) picture: that more CO2 will lead to centuries of climate and coastal changes with big consequences for a growing human population (for better and worse in the short run, and likely mostly for the worse in the long run).

[* Full disclosure: I'm running a panel (pro bono) on Saturday night about providing adequate energy to a growing human population on a finite planet.]

In a world where hunger is still a reality for many, and there is concern about how to feed a growing human population, this quantity and source of food waste is very disturbing.

-- Clarifying what this small group of countries can do to help forge a new global climate agreement in Copenhagen in December, — Working out specific partnerships to propel advances toward «transformational technologies» that could supply abundant energy to a growing human population without overheating the planet.

Her full dispatch, readable by clicking the image above, is focused on the importance of preserving and exploiting genetic diversity as a way to sustain food production in the face of both growing human populations and appetites (prosperity still tends to boost peoples» appetite for meat) and rising dangers from warming driven by accumulating greenhouse gases.

Growing human populations of the world are only part of the Problem and are not necessarily indicative of ending up with depleted Ocean Resources...

Animals will no place to live, if we continue to grow our human population.