Sentences with phrase «human activities affect»

A wide range of human activities affect marine biodiversity both in direct ways, such as exploitation by fisheries, habitat loss due to dredging, filling, and other construction influences, fishing gear impacts, and pollution, and in less direct ways, including effects of global change resulting in acidification, warmer waters, and coastal inundation.

I don't think there is much doubt that human activities affect the climate sometimes to a considerable degree locally and quite likely to a tiny degree globally.

Emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere from human activities affect both the quality of the air we breathe and Earth's climate.

What it shows is how all kinds of gases from human activities affect the climate and in orange, their sum impact.

Gallup polls show that it's now issue number 14 out of 15, it's no longer issue, we've really won on that issue,» Inhofe boasted after voting against an unsuccessful amendment stating the fact that human activities affect climate change.

Anthropogenic noise increases fish mortality by predation Noise - generating human activities affect hearing, communication and movement in terrestrial and aquatic animals, but direct evidence for impacts on survival is rare.

They will be addressing the driving question: How can human activities affect the environment's surface temperature?

«Travelling pollution: East Asian human activities affect air quality in remote tropical forests.»

«The economist... considers how the distribution of human activities affects the satisfaction of human wants, the wants being taken for granted» (MDS 103).

The current research project sought to determine how lead from daily human activities affects formation of ice nuclei.

There is also no doubt that human activity affects the environment and will influence climate in the long run.

Researchers looked into how culture, religion and human activity affects global climate.

Vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said Tuesday «there's no question» that human activity affects both the climate and the environment.

However, since around the middle of the 18th Century, human activity affecting the levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has rapidly increased.

Assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that the earth's climate warmed 0.85 ℃ (1.53 oF) between 1880 to 2012 and that human activity affecting the atmosphere is likely an important driving factor.

I am still trying to understand the three dimension process of how the radiant energy of CO2 and other human activities affects weather patterns.

How much does human activity affect climate change?

Not exact matches

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

A portrayal of God which would see him as in no sense thus affected would be alien to the general biblical picture, and would reduce human activity to a meaningless and irrelevant series of events.

This idea depends on developments in general systems theory, which views «all of nature and all of human activity as a hierarchically arranged structure of levels of interlocked subset systems in which the process of any particular subset system affects and is affected by other subset systems at its own level, as well as below or above it.»

While caring for animals affected by human activity such as overfishing, habitat degradation, plastic pollution and rising ocean temperatures, the team seeks to increase public engagement and advocacy along with inspire new individuals to make a difference.

Republican thinking on work can contribute to specific analyses of the developments that have affected work itself, and how these changes contribute to all human activity.

The Assembly, in a notice to the traders in December 2017, said their activities at thees unauthorized areas affects vehicular and human traffic, and also contributes seriously to the heaps of garbage found along major roads in the capital.

The Assembly, in a notice to the traders in December 2017, said their activities at thees unauthorized areas affects vehicular and human traffic, and also contributes seriously to...

After collecting 27,000 hours of recordings, the team analysed how dynamite blasts and other human activity, such as driving and setting up equipment, affected the number of elephant calls.

But it does mean that human activities have, more likely than not, affected the chances of such events occurring.

After collecting 27,000 hours of recordings, the team analysed how dynamite blasts and other human activity, such as driving and setting up equipment, affected the number...

Forests are affected by other human activities such as farming or logging, and many are in a stage of ecological succession with lower biomass compared to mature forests.

Since our activities have such a huge impact on the biosphere, this hints at a previously unknown way in which humans can affect the climate, he says.

Beyond human activity, tropical sea surface temperatures further back in time are affected by volcanic eruptions, changes in the intensity of sunlight and natural events like El Niño.

In studies with human fibroblasts that make up connective tissue, Boger's team tested whether NOD1 activity could affect CMV replication in cultures of cells grown in the lab.

And it may be that elephant populations that are heavily poached or otherwise adversely affected by human activities are similarly socially damaged, they say.

In their experiments, Prof. Markus Ploner, Heisenberg Professor for Human Pain Research at the TUM School of Medicine, and his team investigated pain perception: How does the duration of pain or the action of a placebo affect activities in the brain?

What's more, many other human activities, from building cities to planting crops, alter albedo, and these activities have a much greater impact because they affect a far greater proportion of Earth's surface.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

Despite attempts to locate monitoring sites in places not affected by human activities, the stations are picking up signals of human influence throughout the Caribbean basin.

While the team's research showed no significant difference in bacterial degradation of organic matter from cleared or forested watersheds, Canuel says it did show that «organic carbon in runoff from watersheds affected by human activity is less susceptible to solar degradation than that from forested watersheds.»

Tropospheric ozone — a greenhouse gas and the kind that affects the air we breathe — can increase in concentration because of atmospheric conditions, or can result from human activities.

Human diseases that include dyskeratosis congenita, aplastic anemia, and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis have been genetically linked to mutations that negatively affect telomerase activity and / or accelerate the loss of telomere length.

«Broad changes will likely spread across the ecosystem, affecting human activities such as fishing.»

Additional habitat management strategies that account for their presence in forests affected by logging and other human activity are needed to ensure the species» survival.

We're better able to see when human activity begins to affect the ocean - carbon sink,» she explains.

«We tend to measure the impact of human activity based on the area it affects on a map, but mountaintop mining is penetrating much more deeply into the earth than other land use in the region like forestry, agriculture or urbanization,» said Emily Bernhardt, a professor of biology at Duke and co-author on the study.

Though these processes are influenced by factors including climate, vegetation and human activity, erosion is the main factor that affects the amount of carbon that ends up in rivers.

«Greenhouse gas emissions due to human activity have affected the odds of floods in England and Wales,» says physicist Pardeep Pall of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), who led the research published February 17 in Nature.

The bobwhite is not the only bird affected by human activity in Arizona, however.

«Effective conservation of Golden Eagles requires that we know which regional populations are affected by various human activities in particular locations.

These findings remind us once again that the deep sea is directly affected by events at the ocean's surface, as well as human activities on land.

As a result, one of the most important forms of human activity, with a demonstrated capacity to affect our lives in profound ways, has become isolated from the kinds of con - siderations that together define the term «human».

The MLTI region is important because it is very sensitive to changes in the Sun's energy output as well as human activities that affect the atmosphere.