Sentences with phrase «human activities include»

Other human activities include agriculture and changes in land - use patterns.

Seriously, the largest sources of methane from human activities include rice paddy agriculture (good luck changing that!)

Major sources of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities include power generation (about 25 per cent of all emissions), transport, industrial activities, deforestation and agriculture.

Short - lived climate pollutants (also known as Short Lived Climate Forcers or SLCF) caused by human activities include methane and sulphur dioxide, and to a lesser extent fluorocarbons.

In contrast with this experience, which is universal and important but not of central or ultimate importance, the experiences described in the next part of this book as defining religious experiences are involved in and illustrated by every form of human activity including the seeking for food and the appreciation of art.

Studying and mitigating the impacts of increasing human activities including shipping, seismic exploration, fisheries and other resource exploration in Arctic waters.

Antimicrobial resistance threatens many aspects of human activity including medicine and agriculture and could lead to more deaths than cancer.

Its main focus is on how human activity including that of governments, TNCs and civic society groups as well as indigenous groups have a role to play in determining the Arctic Region's future.

A recent paper by Dr. Tami Bond and colleagues finds that carbon aerosols — particulates released into that atmosphere from a variety of human activities including diesel engines, open cook stoves, poorly filtered coal burning, and open burning, etc. — have played a much larger role in impacting the climate than has been previously recognized (and included in climate models).

East African Crowned cranes, a subspecies of the Grey Crowned cranes, are endangered due to habitat loss and degradation from human activities including due pesticide use, overgrazing by livestock, drainage of their wetland breeding areas and drought.

Not exact matches

Trump's stance on the environment contradicts thousands of scientists and decades of research, which has linked many observable changes in climate, including rising air and ocean temperatures, shrinking glaciers, and widespread melting of snow and ice, to an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

Specifically, the program will include: hosting of the entrepreneurial team in INTRASOFT premises, business and technology focused guidance and consulting compatible with the team's activities, offered by INTRASOFT staff, as well as business communication services and specialist consultancy services (on administration, legal and financial issues and human resources management).

Thus, for instance, the self - conscious freedom of human activity is made possible by the extremely complex order that it is privileged to appropriate, including the conditions which support life on this earth and the complexity of the human body.

Some, like St. Augustine, have argued that many apparently antireligious activities — including drunkenness, carousing, promiscuous sex, harsh athletic training, committed political activism, incessant material consumption, and drug addiction — actually represent deeply driven human religious longings and searching, which happen to be misdirected quests for the true religious good.

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

Reason thus broadly conceived includes a wide range of human mental activity.

The higher possibilities of human achievement are a gift from past human achievements, favorably ordered, where the human past includes both the previous activities of the individual in question and the communities of individuals to whom she or he relates.

The resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: — his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and also what has happened as a consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

If the fashion in which the basic New Testament proclamation has been interpreted in the preceding chapter has validity, then talk of the resurrection of Christ is a way of affirming that God has received into his own life all that the historical event, designated when we say «Jesus Christ», has included: his human existence as teacher and prophet, as crucified man upon his cross, in continuing relationship of others with him after that death, and along with this what has happened in consequence of his presence and activity in the world.

The fact of Jesus Christ, therefore, is a total fact, with a unitary quality which makes it include and express (a) a human life which was remembered, (b) a vital experience of salvation which was enjoyed, and (c) the activity of God that was in, through, with, and behind this totality.

It presents first an analysis of man's communion with God («communion in God»), including a review of the main types of cultic activity (sacrifice, mystery, prayer) and of religious attitudes (mystery and revelation on the divine side, adoration and edification on the human side).

From this axiom it follows that no human activity (including, again, all scholarly activity, all religious activity, and all interaction among serious religious persons) can be neutral with regard to any particular metaphysic.

Many thoughtful citizens, including eminent scientists, oppose the deciphering and altering of the human gene structure, and are appalled by the proposed commercial uses of knowledge gained from such activities.

These functions in turn include a variety of activities — reading, writing, computing, memorizing — that purport to advance disciplined thinking about important matters of human concern.

This truth, revealed fully in the Incarnation, imbues every human activity» including political and economic activity» with profound new significance.

For me, this means investing at least three times as much caring time and leadership (ministerial and lay) in person - building, human enrichment activities (including short - term growth - oriented counseling) as in helping those with deep deficiency needs through longer - term pastoral counseling.

Even some Christians have declared that «salvation history» — the record of God's redemptive dealings with men — can not be rightly embraced in «world history,» including the course of all human activity in its manifold expressions.

Saturday will expand upon the all - you - can - eat & drink tradition of the Bacon, Brew & BBQ Fest and Sunday's activities will include an expanded Family Friendly day filled with music, food, bouncy houses, human foosball and much, much more!

Weekly activities will include: learning horse colors, markings and breeds; arts and crafts; a farrier demonstration and human horse show; bareback riding and more!

Weekly activities include learning horse colors, markings and breeds; art and crafts; a farrier demonstration and human horse show; bareback riding and more!

Chemicals with estrogenic activity «have been reported to have potential adverse health effects in mammals, including humans, especially in fetal and infant states,» says Dr. George Bittner, a professor of neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin who has served on many National Institutes of Health panels.

Mass Audubon generally opposes most nuisance control practices, including spraying of pesticides to kill adult mosquitoes when there is a relatively low risk of mosquito - borne disease, because of the human health risks of pesticide exposures, harmful environmental effects, and unproven effectiveness of these activities.

The bill also stipulates that childbirth and related medical conditions specified in the Virginia Human Rights Act include activities of lactation, including breastfeeding and expression of milk by a mother for her child.

This plan will include providing positive physical contact with humans that encourages exercise through play and other similar activities;

The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

Dr. Teich is responsible for the Association's activities in science and technology policy (including the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program, the Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows Program, and a new Research Competitiveness Program) as well as programs in science and ethics, law, religion, and human rights, a Program of Dialogue between Science and Religion, and a Center for Science, Technology, and Congress.

The findings are the first to note increased greenhouse gas emissions due to antibiotic use in cattle; a recent study suggests that methane emissions from cud - chewing livestock worldwide, including cows, account for about 4 % of the greenhouse gas emissions related to human activity.

Dr. Teich is responsible for the Association's activities in science and technologypolicy (including the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program, the Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows Program, and a new Research Competitiveness Program) as well as programs in science ethics and law, human rights, a Program of Dialogue between Science and Religion, and a Center for Science, Technology, and Congress.

The research documented a connection between various human activities and declining numbers of fish, including Moi, a species (Polydactylus sexfilis) of threadfin.

More than 100 years later, an international team of scientists that includes a NASA researcher has proven that air pollution from industrial activities arrived to the planet's southern pole long before any human.

Only about half of those respondents blamed human activity for warming temperatures, but 61 percent of them — including 43 percent of Republicans — said it's a problem the government needs to tackle.

«Nest protection is widely used for other raptors, including many hawks and falcons, to quarantine them from human disturbance, even from activities that we don't think would be all that disturbing, like camping, hiking or boating.

Most carbon emissions linked to human activity are in the form of carbon dioxide gas (CO2), but other forms of carbon include the methane gas (CH4) and the particles generated by such fires — the tiny bits of soot, called black carbon, and motes of associated substances known as brown carbon.

Researchers are not sure what is causing the peculiar behaviors but Munday suspects that elevated CO2 levels interfere with a neurotransmitter called GABA, which plays a key role in modulating activity in the brain and nervous system of virtually all animals, including humans.

Krotkov and his team now are able to more accurately detect smaller sulfur dioxide concentrations, including those emitted by human - made sources such as oil - related activities and medium - size power plants.

The overwhelming scientific consensus is that the earth's climate is changing and that human activity — including emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases — is contributing to that change.

Other human activites linked to seismic activity include hydraulic fracturing, in which a water mixture gets pumped underground to break up rocks and release gas, and fluid withdrawal, which can refer to the withdrawal of oil and gas, groundwater or hot water / steam for geothermal power, the USGS says.

These include the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and foods grown with pesticides, the use of animals in research, whether climate change is mostly due to human activity, and whether humans have evolved over time.

With over 80 percent of forests already degraded by human and industrial activities, today's findings underscore the immediate need for international policies to secure remaining intact forests — including establishing new protected areas, securing the land rights of indigenous peoples, regulating industry and hunting, and targeting restoration efforts and public finance.

One thing the new report doesn't include is hazard due to induced seismicity — earthquakes related to human activities, such as reintroducing wastewater into injection wells.