Sentences with phrase «human effects on the environment»

Just to be clear, I'm not against studying climate change, or funding research into technology that can mitigate human effects on the environment.

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All three ingredients have faced increasing global scrutiny for their impact on the environment and possible negative effects on humans.

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.»

Some objections are related to harmful effects of the project on humans and the environment.

«The economic powers shall continue to justify the current world system, in which speculation and the aim for financial returns... ignore... the effects on the environment and on human dignity... environmental, human and ethical degradation are intimately connected.

The dropping of the atomic bomb, however, and the killing of birdlife by DDT, documented by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, introduced a new problem: the presence of totally unpredicted (and probably unpredictable) harmful effects on the environment and on human life stemming from actions taken specifically to produce certain benefits.

Yet the capacity to split genes and atoms, and to effect the environment on a new scale and in grave ways, is only one reason human power — and its relation to divine power — has become a theological preoccupation.

Sociological theology has focused on questions of justice, but as it has recognized that the effects of human beings on their environment are having seriously deleterious consequences for humanity, it has extended its concern to questions of the sustainability of human society.23 Yet in practice the difference of the amount of attention given to these two issues of justice and sustainability still leads to opposing judgements on important issues.

see what you have to understand about living in a real world — a world where god is just a story and not real — its a world based on scientific and physical laws that are proven to exist and their effects are measurable... us as humans, mere animals, hold no real power or control aside thru ingenuity which allows us to change our environment to suit us... stay with me here... at this point in human history we ceased to change to suit our environment and started changing it to suit us — thats destruction of the earth to suit one species — that should go over well...

Most people, at least in the developed nations, know that the environment is suffering from human abuse, and that its deterioration will have severely deleterious effects on us and on our children.

Consumers purchase organic foods for different reasons, including concerns about the effects of conventional farming practices on the environment, human health, and animal welfare.

Many more further detailed the destruction being wrought on the environment by industrial livestock farming and the dangerous effects on human health of eating too much meat.

After going meat free she began to learn more about food and its effect on the human body, as well as to understand the impact of food production and consumption on the environment.

In its certification, it states that a component «certifies substances that have been rigorously tested against harmful effects on humans and the environment and for efficient consumption of relevant resources.»

We, concerned Ghanaians and Pan-Africanists at home and in the Diaspora, have read and watched with concern reports on the damaging effect of illegal mining on human lives, animals and the Ghanaian environment.

Chlordane, toxaphene, DDT and PCBs are all examples of persistent organic pollutants — chemicals that were once widely used in agriculture and manufacturing (or accidentally produced through industrial processes or combustion) but are now banned due to their adverse effects on human health and the environment.

Those of us working in the field of developmental science are seeing results that suggest the prenatal environment and prenatal conditions have meaningful, long - term effects on human development.

This trial of OX513A mosquitoes, genetically engineered by the British company Oxitec, «would be unlikely to result in adverse effects on the environment or human health,» the FDA ruled.

Porter says the results call for closer attention to effects on humans of pesticides at low levels found widely in the environment.

On 16 April, the EPA will release its preliminary risk assessment for atrazine at a technical briefing, a key step in its long process of reviewing the chemical's effects on humans, wildlife, and the environmenOn 16 April, the EPA will release its preliminary risk assessment for atrazine at a technical briefing, a key step in its long process of reviewing the chemical's effects on humans, wildlife, and the environmenon humans, wildlife, and the environment.

Runyon added that pyrethroids «do not pose unreasonable effects to human health or the environment» when used according to the directions on the label.

Our research underscores the importance of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the first global treaty designed to protect human health and the environment from this element's adverse effects.

Dr Sorichetta comments: «It's crucial we understand human mobility, so we can quantify the effect it has on our societies and the environment and provide strong evidence to support the development of policies to address issues, such as public health problems.»

So if, as Le Cao Dai believes, it is causing second and third - generation birth deformities, the likelihood is that they are congenital, caused by either the continuing presence of dioxin in the environment and human tissue, or lingering effects on the father's or mother's hormonal system.

In addition to studying the monument's environment, the deep divers were in turn the subjects of a medical study to understand the effects of extreme dive exposures on human physiology.

So what's the effect on the environment and human health?

The game is based on actual events and participants were provided with an international assessment on the effects of mercury on humans and the environment.

She explains her concerns about the effects of GM foods on human health and the environment.

For many of the participants, the goal was to come to a legally binding agreement addressing the negative effects of mercury on humans and the environment.

One of those groups is SkyTruth of Shepherdstown, W. Va., founded by geologist John Amos in 2001 to monitor the effects of human activity on the environment using remote - sensing and mapping technologies.

Intensity is determined from effects on people, human structures, and the natural environment.

A study of this type is integral to understanding the effects of extreme weather on a sociological level, allowing for an enhanced understanding of human interaction within our changing environment.

These assessments, which take into account the gene drive's characteristics, effects on humans and the environment, and local values and governance, are a key tool for determining a gene drive's impacts.

The widespread occurrence of mercury (Hg) in the environment and, especially in fish has been highlighted because of the harmful effects of mercury compounds on the health of humans and other animals.

«As interest in space travel grows — for both research and commercial aims — it is increasingly important to understand the effect a microgravity environment can have on the human heart for both the traveler and their potential future children,» said Karen Ocorr, Ph.D., assistant professor of the Development, Aging and Regeneration Program at SBP.

«This tells us that humans have been having a massive effect on the environment for a very long time,» said S. Kathleen Lyons, a paleobiologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History who led the new research.

The Environmental Toxicology degree options in the University of Washington Department of Environmental and Occupational Health prepares students to investigate and communicate the effects of toxic agents on human health and the environment.

This expertise is needed to deal with climate issues in the North Central US, where changes in temperature and precipitation could have significant effects on streams, forests, agricultural lands, and mountain ecosystems, in addition to the fish, wildlife, and human communities supported by these environments.

The human tissue act, all the animal regulations, especially concerning transgenic mice and the colossal amount of regulations and paperwork in clinical trials, all of these have had a chilling effect on research and more and more human and animal research has moved to less regulated environments.

A new poll conducted by Hart Research Associates and the Synthetic Biology Project finds that two - thirds of Americans think that synthetic biology should move forward, but with more research to study its possible effects on humans and the environment.

Researchers at Whitehead Institute have now uncovered a role for the protein - folding chaperone HSP90 in humans, not only as a modifier of the effects of mutations, but as a mediator of the impact of the environment on the function of mutant proteins.

The effects of human activity have long been cited as a primary cause of global climate change, but new research from NASA has revealed that our use of technology also appears to be having an impact not just on the planet, but on Earth's near - space environment as well.

That said, there are some major concerns regarding the effects that those particles may have on human health and on the environment.

After learning about the devastating effects of plastic pollution on the environment and human health, Oakland accountant Beth Terry began an experiment to see if she could live without buying any new plastic.

Exposure to pesticides and fungicides have been proven to cause negative short - term or long - term effects on the environment and the health of animals and humans, especially in the reproductive, endocrine and central nervous systems.

POPs are chemical substances that persist in the environment, bioaccumulate through the food web, and pose a risk of causing adverse effects on human health and the environment.

Antioxidants also protect all life on earth (plants, animals, and humans) against the damaging effects of oxygen radicals, which are always formed in an oxygenated environment.

Lower your toxic load — More than 80,000 toxic chemicals have been introduced into our environment over the past few decades, most of which haven't been properly tested for their effects on human health.

This, and previous related studies, show how products protected with antimicrobial technology can sustainably be incorporated into human - centric environments with a proven beneficial effect on hygiene.

Bradbury's famous «Martian Chronicles» considered the effect of a new environment on the human race.