Sentences with phrase «growing population»

GM crops will help feed a growing population and require fewer herbicides and pesticides.

As per - seat fuel efficiency of jet airliners improved, a combination of cheaper fares, increasing incomes, and a growing population raised the number of airborne humans from millions in the 1960s to the current four billion a year.

«The report reflects BBSRC's position on advanced genetic techniques in its call to consider all of the tools at our disposal to feed a growing population and its focus on social, political and economic factors in addition to technological solutions.

Providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources requires eco-innovation to become embedded across the whole food supply system.

Nonetheless, with rising sea level and environmental refugeeism compounding the increased demand on water, food, and land of a growing population (albeit one likely to level out mid 21st century), the combined impacts of climate change and global population increase could potentially yield a world that doesn't look that different from the one portrayed in the movie — indeed, as Jim Hansen puts it, «a different planet» — by century's end.

Despite this, a variety of structural weaknesses have led to a situation where India's health system performance is unable to cope with the enormous demands placed on it by the country's growing population.

«The CCRC is an interdisciplinary model of care focusing on the unique needs of ICU survivors, a growing population that does not receive specialized care it deserves,» said study senior author Babar A. Khan, MD, of the Indiana University Center for Aging Research, Regenstrief Institute, Center for Health Innovation and Implementation Science and IU School of Medicine.

It has generally been assumed that this growing population of viruses, in turn, kills more and more microbes, keeping the microbial population in check.

The researchers are looking at the growing population of adults with heart defects to determine which defects are associated with the highest rates of infection as well as serious complications or death when an infection occurs.

In this month's Physics World, Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus at Emory University, explains how applied physics led to the innovation of flameless cooking in the late 19th century and addresses the challenge of feeding a rapidly growing population in a cleaner, more efficient way.

A growing population and rising incomes have increased demand for fresh water, while a four - year drought has created what Shalom Simhon, the agriculture minister, calls «a deep water crisis.»

We believe that unleashing the full potential of scientists worldwide is our best hope for fighting global diseases, feeding our growing population, and protecting our planet.

The result is a growing population of ageing cats; in the USA, for example, it is estimated that 20 % of pet cats are 11 years of age or older.

A special March supplement to Medical Care presents updates from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Multiple Chronic Conditions (MCC) Research Network, formed to address knowledge gaps and research challenges in meeting the complex health care needs of this growing population.

The cold and shadowy fringe of the solar system known as the Kuiper belt is generating increasing debate among scientists as data accumulates on the growing population of objects discovered there.

Most of the available mountain lion habitat in Southern California is sandwiched between the greater Los Angeles and San Diego areas, home to a growing population of about 20 million people.

«With increased access to this potentially life - saving treatment, we can continue to improve outcomes for the growing population of elderly patients fighting early stage cancer.»

Growing population and climate change are likely to increase the pressure on already limited water resources and diet change has been suggested as one of the measures contributing to adequate food security for growing population.

That's despite a growing population: The city of Washington has added more than 100,000 people since 2000.

So how can agriculture be intensified to feed a growing population while addressing environmental concerns?

Humans have reached and in many cases surpassed sustainable fishing limits, as our growing population demands more food.

Improvements in efficiency, driven by the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, could for many years offset increases in demand from a growing population with higher living standards, forestalling the need for reactors.

Also, there isn't much arable land anymore for cotton fields, as we also have to produce food for a growing population.»

This year's edition focuses in part on coming up with ways to tackle carbon emissions while at the same time making necessary energy available to evermore of the globe's growing population.

At least 140 million people in Asia are drinking arsenic - contaminated water, and the ever - expanding use of groundwater wells — a growing population needs water to drink, and farmers need it to grow crops to feed them — has been making the situation worse.

Milwaukee's sewers still face challenges, however, from a growing population to climate change.

Algae, quinoa and pulses are considered by some food technologists to be the best protein sources and strong alternatives to slow meat consumption, reduce food waste and help feed the world's growing population.

Its growing population needs better warning.

It attributes India's rise to a fast - growing population of novice users who unwittingly download viruses that turn computers into zombie spam distributors.

With climate change, food security and sustainability for a growing population is one of the most critical challenges facing the planet, Keoleian said, and an area where changes to the food system can have quantifiable emissions impacts.

We do need to feed and clothe the growing population of the world, and to that end we must manage water, land, energy, and human resources.

DOOM - MONGERS have got it wrong — there is enough space in the world to produce the extra food needed to feed a growing population.

Survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer often have stronger social networks than their non-cancer peers, according to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital researchers, who hope to translate that support into better lives for the nation's growing population of cancer survivors.

This means the Nottingham group can transfer these tiny bits of genetic information from the wild relatives into wheat on a large scale creating a step change in the search for new varieties of wheat that will cope with disease and climate change and help feed a growing population.

This growing population of black holes will help astrophysicists learn more about the universe.

It is driven not only by a growing population, but also by rising meat consumption among increasingly prosperous people in developing countries.

A growing population's need to communicate may have spurred the proliferation of seashell ornaments such as these, recently excavated from Lebanon and Turkey.

India's growing population, soon to become the biggest in the world, faces challenges of resource sustainability made worse by its vulnerability to climate change, the paper argues.

And those nonrespondents are harder to find, thanks in part to economic disruptions and a growing population of immigrants.

Gleaned from a new U.N. report and other sources, insects that could help feed Earth's growing population include mopane caterpillars, witchetty grubs, stink grubs and palm weevils

It was literally cooked up back in the 1980s by some British industrialists who were worried about a global food crisis — specifically, they were worried that we would be unable to produce enough protein to sustain a growing population.

Together, the two fuels accounted for 73 per cent of the country's energy in 2012 and the ever - rising needs of a growing population mean this figure is unlikely to change any time soon.

The problem of food production for a growing population has been largely met by modern agribusiness.

As early as 700 B.C., Chinese authorities were encouraging peasant farmers to move into remote regions of the plateau, citing the need to feed a large and growing population while establishing a buffer of human settlement against the threat of nomadic invaders along its northern border.

According to 2006 U.S. Census Bureau data, Americans who are at least 85 years old represent the fastest - growing population and are expected to account for 2.3 percent of the U.S. population in 2030 and 4.3 percent in 2050.

The big cats could return to do the job they once did in Brazil's grassland — hunt a growing population of wild pig relatives, called peccaries, that decimates crop yields

Agriculture already monopolizes 90 percent of global freshwater — yet production still needs to dramatically increase to feed and fuel this century's growing population.

A rapidly growing population, especially in Atlanta, as well as overdevelopment and a notorious lack of water planning, is running the region's rivers dry.

Its author, Charles Kerpelman, says the number of storms and other potentially disastrous events has probably remained constant, but the world's growing population means the chances of large numbers of people being killed, or of serious economic damage, have increased.

«Research on Whooping Crane habitat use throughout the migration corridor is crucial in helping us ensure that we are restoring and protecting habitat for a growing population of Whooping Cranes in the right places,» states Wade Harrell, the U.S. and Wildlife Service's Whooping Crane Recovery Coordinator.