Sentences with phrase «human caused environmental»

How does structural violence relate to human caused environmental degradation?

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Looking ahead: The Environmental Protection Agency, under its new management, decided to issue new talking points to staffers instructing them to disperse doubt when talking about human activity being a cause of climate change.

The price is now five times greater and we humans are forced to dig up bitumen and boil off the oil using massive amounts of NG, fresh water and causing insane amounts of environmental damage.

Many of the states affected by human - caused earthquakes have acknowledged the phenomenon, but, as The New York Times notes, «state regulators around the country have not gone as far in controlling industry practices as environmental groups have asked, and there is little sign that the new federal findings will goad them to go farther.»

Experts from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) strongly believe BPA levels currently found in humans are higher than the levels found to cause problems in the studies on animals.

Judith Enck, the regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, notes that «from their designation as probable human carcinogens to their well - documented immunologic, neurologic and reproductive health effects, long - term exposure to PCBs is cause for considerable concern.»

According to environmental advocacy group Hudson Riverkeeper, between 1947 to 1977 General Electric, GE, dumped more than 1.3 million pounds of cancer - causing PCBs into the Hudson River which has contaminated the waterway, wildlife, and has since been found in humans.

Considering what is possible and what is desirable in our energy future, Smil argues that human dependence on fossil fuels must be reduced not because of impending resource shortages but because of the environmental, economic, and political problems caused by our current consumption.

Like many human diseases, schizophrenia is complex, and no single genetic or environmental factor has been identified as the cause of the disease.

A dust storm that blanketed seven nations in the Middle East in late summer 2015 was caused by climate factors and unusual weather, not human conflict in Syria, concluded researchers including Elie Bou - Zeid, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton.

Now, a team of researchers including Elie Bou - Zeid an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton who experienced the storm while in Lebanon, have found a more likely cause for the unprecedented storm — it was not human conflict, but a combination of climatic factors and unusual weather.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, responding to scientists» concerns, will now study whether low doses of hormonelike chemicals cause human harm

WASHINGTON, D.C. — One of the hottest environmental issues around — whether hormonelike pollutants are causing reproductive and other health problems in humans — got some attention today from the White House, which issued a rough sketch for a federal research strategy on the topic.

After documenting the growing partisan gap in support for environmental legislation in the U.S. Congress, it presents data from The Gallup Organization that shows an increasing gap between self - identified Republicans» and Democrats» attitudes towards human - caused climate change.

«With or without mitigation, there is no quick - fix, single - cause solution for the problem of human vulnerability to socio - environmental change, nor is there a reasonable prospect of attenuating high - impact weather.

«In the current environment of human - caused environmental disturbance and degradation, the discovery of four previously unknown species that are relatively large in size is phenomenal,» he said.

This raises the tantalising prospect that the decline in canine semen quality has an environmental cause and begs the question whether a similar effect could also be observed in human male fertility.»

AAAS CEO Rush Holt today expressed reservation regarding reports that President - elect Donald Trump plans to select Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, who views human - caused climate change as unsettled, to run the Environmental Protection Agency.

Another study published online today in the journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL) directly attributes the rainfall increase to human - caused climate change.

The study, which has been published today, 12 July, in IOP Publishing's journal Environmental Research Letters, estimates that around 470,000 people die each year because of human - caused increases in ozone.

«Human - caused environmental change is nothing new,» Kidder said.

Now, new research from Washington University in St. Louis links the river's increasingly deadly floods to a widespread pattern of human - caused environmental degradation and related flood - mitigation efforts that began changing the river's natural flow nearly 3,000 years ago.

Though mutations that cause human cancer have traditionally been thought to originate from heredity or environmental sources, these results — grounded in a novel mathematical model based on data from around the world — support a role for so - called «R» or random mutations in driving the disease.

However, anthropogenic (environmental change caused by humans) activities such as shipping promote the artificial transport of species and bring distant populations together, leading to the crossing of individuals and therefore genetic material.

«This quantitative attribution of human and natural climate influences on the IPWP expansion increases our confidence in the understanding of the causes of past changes as well as for projections of future changes under further greenhouse warming,» commented Seung - Ki Min, a professor with POSTECH's School of Environmental Science and Engineering.

The root cause of the looming energy problem — and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health — is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population.

The test is increasingly used as a method of assessing substances — including drugs and cosmetics — that could pose a potential risk to human or environmental health by causing damage to DNA.

The 2016 Environmental Performance Index (EPI), a Yale - based initiative that evaluates how 180 countries protect ecosystems and human health, finds cause for both optimism and serious concern.

Pollution and other human - induced environmental changes are depleting phosphorus levels in some rivers, which could be causing more outbreaks of rock snot in pristine rivers around the world, the researchers said.

It is the combination of the twin curses of human numbers and human behaviour that has caused our environmental problems.

Geographer Jared Diamond's Collapse (Penguin Group, 2005) demonstrates how natural and human - caused environmental catastrophes led to the collapse of civilizations.

Areas with carbon - rich ecosystems with key wilderness habitats, such as tropical forests, were identified as those where new roads would cause the most environmental damage with the lease human benefit, particularly areas where few roads currently exist.

For instance, the treaty allows countries to refuse to import GMOs based on a «precautionary principle» — that is, even without «sufficient scientific evidence» that the products could cause environmental harm or threaten human health.

A recent paper by a team of researchers in the journal Science questioned whether human's combined environmental impact has caused the planet to enter a new geological epoch, the «Anthropocene.»

They point out that poor semen quality «is the leading cause of unsuccessful attempts to achieve pregnancy and one of the most common medical problems among young men... it has been suggested as an important marker of male health, predicting both morbidity and mortality... it is sensitive to environmental exposures, including endocrine disrupting chemicals, heat and life - style factors, such as diet... Therefore, it can provide a sensitive marker of the impacts of modern environment on human health.»

Regardless of whether participants said they accepted that human activity caused climate change, most recognized that scientists expect climate change to create serious environmental dangers, including increased coastal flooding.

Once again we have used our capabilities in human genetics to gain a new understanding of the root causes of a major disease, that appear to act independently of known environmental risk factors.

The increasing frequency and area burned by large fires is linked to human - caused climate change as well as other environmental changes.

The decades of work that have gone into reducing PM2.5 through environmental regulations and technological improvements are being undermined by the West's worsening wildfire seasons, with large wildfires being amplified by higher temperatures and drier conditions associated with human - caused climate change.

«This raises the tantalizing prospect that the decline in canine semen quality has an environmental cause and begs the question whether a similar effect could also be observed in human male fertility.»

Results of regular monitoring of the species diversity and structure of plant communities is used by conservation biologists to help understand impacts of perturbations caused by humans and other environmental factors on ecosystems worldwide.

«Climate change, as well as human - caused deforestation and biomass burning, can lead to ecological and climatic tipping points that could release massive pools of stored carbon,» said Scot Martin, the Gordon McKay Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

The growing body of evidence that GMOs are dangerous prompted the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) to publicly warn that «it is biologically plausible for Genetically Modified Foods to cause adverse health effects in humans.»

Environmental Stress We believe that the most serious threat to human health is the oxidative stress caused by toxins in the environment.

Environmental toxins: Toxins, which are chemicals or metals that cause damage to the human body, are shown to increase the risk of developing insulin resistance.

An increased iodine requirement as a result of significant changes in human nutrition rather than a decreased environmental iodine supply is suggested to represent the main cause of the iodine deficiency disorders (IDD).

Their packaging is not only eco-friendly, but 10 % of their profits also go to human and environmental causes.

In the past 50 years, the human activity has been the main cause of environmental degradation and it has reached about 60 % of the Earth's ecosystem services (MEA, 2005).

In particular, these handouts cover the following specific content about tuberculosis in South Africa: Case study of one communicable disease, such as malaria or tuberculosis, at a country scale, either an LIDC or EDC, including: o environmental and human causes of the disease o prevalence, incidence and patterns of the disease o socio - economic impacts of the disease o direct and indirect strategies used by government and international agencies to mitigate against the disease and respond to outbreaks.

LI: To understand the impact of human geography on the rainforest and environmental issues caused by this.