Sentences with phrase «habitat destruction -lsb-»

The idea that waxing one's nether regions is tantamount to habitat destruction for the lowly pubic louse makes a certain amount of sense.

When accounting for projects in the region that either already exist or have already been approved, this project will lead to government - mandated limits on habitat destruction, air quality and acid deposition in 21 lakes being exceeded.

They also face other threats from habitat destruction, continued poaching for ivory, meat and hides; trophy hunting; and removal because of conflicts with humans.

Clearly, the answer was habitat destruction.

This path has, to a certain extent, led them to avert their eyes from the habitat destruction that will almost certainly ensue.

I don't need to tell you about the linkages between third world poverty, lighting, education, population growth and habitat destruction.

A cheap clean renewable power source still allows population increase & the associated habitat destruction that entails.

Global warming & ocean acidification go way, but deforestation & localised habitat destruction would still happen.

«70,000 unfarmed hectares in the Niari region,» > translation > another huge area of rain forest destruction and wild habitat destruction for a bit of oil.

The researchers claimed that changing weather patterns would commit up to 37 percent of the world's species to extinction by 2050 — far more than would go extinct if we continued at the current rate of habitat destruction.

With bees in serious decline due to habitat destruction and overuse of human - made chemicals, Ren Ri's unconventional beekeeping work is one of many pointing to the vital urgency of protecting the world's bees (which you could also do at home yourself).

«The results of the study are important in that they confirm what we suspected: habitat destruction is slowly but surely killing our planet's mammal diversity» said Dr. Ahumada.

Currently listed as endangered, due to the illegal bushmeat trade and habitat destruction, chimp populations have declined to 175,000 - 300,000 from one million at the turn of the 20th century.

Switching to cleaner energy does nothing directly to address over consumption of natural resources, biodiversity loss & habitat destruction, the gross land - use disaster that is suburban sprawl, and soil degradation resulting from destructive agricultural practices.

Biodiversity diminishes as some species become extinct due either to human - caused climate change or to related human activities such as habitat destruction or toxic pollution.

All the problems of a growing population, logging, farming, habitat destruction in general, exotic species introduction, every step humans make causes disaster for some species or another.

There are many other human - induced stresses on life, including land conversion with habitat destruction, species overharvesting, homogenization of biota, and ubiquitous toxins, which must be dealt with, yet global warming caused by fossil fuel burning may be a unique threat because of the millennial time scale of anthropogenic carbon within surface carbon reservoirs.

All of these species are considered endangered or critically endangered due to habitat destruction or poaching.

Malaysia and Indonesia are the world's main producers of palm oil; here, plantations are leading to rapid rainforest and wetland habitat destruction.

The current trajectory of biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse is being driven by cutting down forests, over-fishing, chemical pollution, soil degradation and erosion, habitat destruction, desertification and so on.

In doing so, there is potential to slow habitat destruction, to stem the tide of plastic into our oceans, to reduce the amount of household trash we haul to the curb each week.

Although a major player in this tragedy is habitat destruction, illegal wildlife trade and trophy hunting take a heavy toll as well.

Perhaps the most significant impact of sugarcane agriculture, however, comes in the form of habitat destruction.

Growing and processing sugar is the first step of making rum — and it's also one of the most environmentally destructive — resulting in soil degradation and erosion, the overuse and pollution of local water resources, the spread of pesticides and fertilizers, emissions of greenhouse gases, and habitat destruction.

And since biologists have argued that the double punch of habitat destruction and climate change could be precipitating a sixth great extinction, there has always been intense interest in the triggers of the previous five.

After all, GW / CC is the cause of: asthma and other health issues, war, famine, deaths of millions of children, future SLR, habitat destruction, extinction, etc., etc..

The policy from global warming progressives involves tales of the collapse of western civilisation and capitalism leading to less growth, less material consumption, less CO2 emissions, less habitat destruction and a last late chance to stay within the safe limits of global ecosystems.

Putra realized that in addition to anti-poaching efforts, his work could not be complete without addressing a much larger threat rapidly outpacing conservation: habitat destruction from illegal palm oil plantations.

It is important to note that these impacts do not take account of ancillary stresses on species due to over-harvesting, habitat destruction, landscape fragmentation, alien species invasions, fire regime change, pollution (such as nitrogen deposition), or for plants the potentially beneficial effects of rising atmospheric CO2.

Even without putting climate change into the mix, recent extinction has proceeded at least 3 - 80 times above long - term background rates (Barnosky et al., 2011) and possibly much more (Pimm and Brooks, 1997; Pimm et al., 1995; WRI, 2005), 17 primarily from human - caused habitat destruction and overexploitation of species.

Climate change is also predicted to interact with other drivers of biodiversity change such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, or the introduction of foreign species.

This extent of habitat destruction and fragmentation means that even if individuals of a species can move fast enough to cope with ongoing climate change, they will have difficulty dispersing into suitable areas because adequate dispersal corridors no longer exist.

Partly this is because it's hard to beat the blunt biodiversity effects of direct habitat destruction (like deforestation) and partly that is because climate warming is often a slow process, for instance in the deep oceans, where its ecological effects are «outpaced» by the rapidly escalating plastic pollution — admittedly an impossible comparison.

And in some instances climate change is both a rapid process and something that equals habitat destruction.

The vision involves narratives of moribund western economies governed by corrupt corporations collapsing under the weight of internal contradictions — leading to less growth, less material consumption, less CO2 emissions, less habitat destruction and a last late chance to stay within the safe limits of global ecosystems.

I have spent many years working to address other impacts on biodiversity (ferals and habitat destruction in particular) but that work is not the subject on these onlime conversations.

You fail to account for the infrastructure, land - clearing, habitat destruction, and lack of political appetite for expanding solar and wind projects.

Indeed, as Dias opened the 12th Conference of the Parties (COP 12) to the CBD here, he reiterated the importance of engaging the private sector in the opening pages of the 4th Global Biodiversity Outlook, where he pointed out that agriculture accounts for 70 % of our habitat destruction.

A range of factors, including climate change - related drought; unregulated hunting; habitat destruction; and more recently, predation have slashed populations.

The urban doofus hipster vision involves narratives of moribund western economies governed by corrupt corporations collapsing under the weight of the internal contradictions — leading to less growth, less material consumption, less CO2 emissions, less habitat destruction and a last late chance to stay within the safe limits of global ecosystems.

Ecosystem and habitat destruction: microplastics on beaches change the physical properties of beaches, such as heat retention and light reflection, which impacts organisms dependent on land temperature.

Creation of the sanctuary would provide whales the protection they so desperately need, not just from the years of unabated commercial killing but also from the environmental threats and habitat destruction that is plaguing our oceans.

As with all energy development, wind can adversely affect wildlife, whether through habitat destruction or direct collisions.

But really habitat destruction is a far more significant problem.

Human activities can result in pollution, eutrophication (too many nutrients), habitat destruction, invasive species, destructive fishing, and over-exploitation of marine resources.

Even if a species is capable of outrunning global climate change, it may not be able to in the face of habitat destruction, pollution, invasive species, and overexploitation.

In summary, California's green energy mandate has resulted in more local air pollution, deforestation, habitat destruction, local extirpation of species, increased landslide and forest fire risk, increased soil erosion, forest soil depletion, watershed destruction, and, most ironically, increased carbon emissions.

The macaw is just one of many magnificent animal species at risk from habitat destruction, including the jaguar, the night monkey, and the resplendent quetzal, Guatemala's national bird.

Plan B thoughtfully examines the critical global issues of our time: fresh water scarcity, soil depletion, deforestation; desertification; fisheries collapse; habitat destruction; species extinction; extreme weather; global warming, energy policy, and human population growth.

The urban doofus hipster vision involves narratives of moribund western economies governed by corrupt corporations collapsing under the weight of internal contradictions — leading to less growth, less material consumption, less CO2 emissions, less habitat destruction and a last late chance to stay within the safe limits of global ecosystems.