Sentences with phrase «human dam building»

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Now, to foster a less confrontational way of advancing projects, the hydropower industry, environmental and human - rights organizations, and representatives from banks and governments have negotiated a mechanism for evaluating, and perhaps mitigating, the impact of dams before they are built.

Humans make music just as beavers build dams and peacocks show off their tail feathers, he reasoned, so music must have evolved.

«Just like the eastern United States, China has a rich diversity of freshwater mussels, which is imperiled by humans building dams, for instance, and introducing toxins into the waterways,» said Eric Hallerman, a professor of fish and wildlife conservation in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment.

There is strong anthropogenic pressure on the Tapanuli orangutan due to conversion of pristine forest for mining, plans to build a hydro - electric dam, hunting, and general human encroachment.

When the government of Ethiopia finishes building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2017 or 2018, it will not only have built the largest hydroelectric power - generation plant in Africa, but also stirred up tensions among African nations, and indelibly altered a river that itself has guided millennia of human history in the region.

Also, if you know anyone who doubts the scope of what humans have done to Earth systems, show him or her this short animation mapping 200 years of dam building in America (created by James P.M. Syvitski of the University of Colorado and shown at the London Anthropocene conference):

Also, human can build dams in dry countries and improve the climate.

Have humans been reducing sea levels by building so many dams?

The Xingu +23 encounter was intentionally held right before Rio +20 to heighten attention to the glaring human and environmental consequences of the Brazilian government's obsession with building the Belo Monte Dam at any cost.

Unprecedented dam building in the Indian Himalayas holds serious consequences for biodiversity and could pose a threat to human lives and livelihoods, a team of [continue reading...]

Recent estimates suggest that globally, human groundwater extraction currently exceeds rates of water capture from dam building, so that groundwater depletion is now accelerating sea level rise.)

Human activities such as dam building, logging, pollution, and overfishing have already depressed salmon populations in the Northwest to historically low levels.2 Many salmon species are classified as threatened or endangered.

Examples of such systems include human - built infrastructure at or near the coasts, natural ecosystems, freshwater in the ground, and natural dams or topographic choke points.

Whereas prominent Pakistani politicians, TV anchorpersons, and Punjab water engineers have stated that the catastrophe would not have occurred had the Kalabagh dam had been built, the Climate Himalaya Initiative argues that engineering structures and human error may have played a major role in the catastrophe.

With this this enormous dam, visible from space, beavers once again prove that humans aren't the only ones capable of building on a massive scale.