Sentences with phrase «human footprints in»

If you're tired of leaving boring, old human footprints in the sand when you head to the beach, the Japanese have got you covered.

Scientists have discovered the earliest set of human footprints in North America.

This suggests there was a coastal migration route that required some kind of seafaring facility, says Silvia Gonzalez of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK, who investigates early human footprints in the Americas.

«If we aren't out in nature, we aren't aware of our human footprint in nature.

«Another human footprint in the ocean: Rising anthropogenic nitrate levels in North Pacific Ocean.»

When the science section reported that they could detect no human footprint in the climate, the Summary ignored that and concluded that 95 % of climate warming was due to human activities.

He will discuss Cradle to Cradle as a design protocol that can change how we make things — products, architecture, cities, and more — and help us think about the human footprint in positive terms, rather than something to be minimized toward a goal of zero.

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They tell us that they have arrived at an unshakable conviction, not based on inference but on immediate experience, that God is a spirit with whom the human spirit can hold intercourse; that in him meet all that they can imagine of goodness, truth, and beauty that they can see his footprints everywhere in nature, and feel his presence within them as the very life of their life, so that in proportion as they come to themselves they come to him.

Impressions left by a large claw on the innermost toe on the dinosaur's front foot (the analog of the human thumb) indicate that the still - unknown species was located near the base of the sauropod family tree, and the sizes of the footprints — in some cases 70 centimeters across — suggest that the behemoths grew to reach 15 meters in length and weighed up to 10 metric tons, the researchers report online today in the Scottish Journal of Geology.

The researchers uncovered 29 human footprints of at least three different sizes in these sediments, which radiocarbon dating estimated to be around 13,000 years old.

Beach excavations on Canada's Calvert Island revealed 29 distinct human footprints (dark brown in this illustration of one excavation site) from around 13,000 years ago.

Excavations in 2014 revealed a suspected human footprint.

Using a unique GPS - tracking database of 803 individuals across 57 species, we found that movements of mammals in areas with a comparatively high human footprint were on average one - half to one - third the extent of their movements in areas with a low human footprint.

They found a similar result in depressed mice, suggesting that depression leaves similar footprints in mice and humans.

«We know that carbon footprint, a popular indicator used in environmental policies, does not correspond well with other environmental impacts such as toxicity to ecosystems and humans, depletion of resources, and land use.

Puebla Then in 2003, 40,000 - year - old human footprints found in volcanic ash near Puebla in Mexico suggested that the New World was colonised far earlier than anyone thought.

More recent fossil discoveries in the same region, including the iconic 3.7 million year old Laetoli footprints from Tanzania which show human - like feet and upright locomotion, have cemented the idea that hominins (early members of the human lineage) not only originated in Africa but remained isolated there for several million years before dispersing to Europe and Asia.

Whether the human origins research community will accept fossil footprints as conclusive evidence of the presence of hominins in the Miocene of Crete remains to be seen,» says Per Ahlberg.

The new footprints, from Trachilos in western Crete, have an unmistakably human - like form.

The latest date for rocks near Puebla, Mexico, which were said to bear fossilised human footprints, contradicts the suggestion made in July that humans reached the Americas 40,000 years ago.

In 2013, at Happisburgh on the eastern coast of England, wave action revealed human footprints on a tidal mud flat beside an eroding cliff.

Here, we report hominin footprints in two sedimentary layers dated at 1.51 to 1.53 million years ago (Ma) at Ileret, Kenya, providing the oldest evidence of an essentially modern human — like foot anatomy, with a relatively adducted hallux, medial longitudinal arch, and medial weight transfer before push - off.

In the past 50 years, thanks to education and technology, more than 2 billion people joined the middle class, swelling the human footprint nearly 50 percent.

The latest and most controversial candidate surfaced when a team of investigators led by Sylvia Gonzalez of Liverpool John Moores University in England announced in August the discovery in central Mexico of human footprints that they claim are at least 40,000 years old.

«Social and economic equality empowers societies to engage in sustainable pathways, which includes, by the way, not only the sustainable use of natural resources but also slowing down population growth, to actively diminish the human footprint on the environment.»

They found that the Human Footprint has increased in 63 percent of NWHS across all continents except Europe over the past two decades.

Forty artists from 14 countries are participating in the show, and it seems that nearly all have embraced a common theme, juxtaposing a pristine environment and rude reminders of the human footprint.

The discovery of hominid footprints in East Africa reshaped the study of human origins.

The oldest human footprints ever found in North America, over 13,000 years old, were discovered on the shores of Calvert Island.

In the last week we've seen new peer - reviewed science published, linking at least half of 2012's extreme weather events to a human carbon footprint in the atmosphere and on the weather and climatIn the last week we've seen new peer - reviewed science published, linking at least half of 2012's extreme weather events to a human carbon footprint in the atmosphere and on the weather and climatin the atmosphere and on the weather and climate.

Modern human footprints reflect the specialized anatomy and function of the human foot, which is characterized by a fully adducted hallux [big toe in line with the other toes], a large and robust calcaneus [heel] and tarsal region, a pronounced medial longitudinal arch, and short toes.

Bones and human artifacts, after examination by specialists, can tell us much about how life was lived in earlier times but footprints are full of wonder for us.

A new study describes the discovery of strikingly human - like 5.7 - million - year - old footprints in Greece.

Navulur said that satellite imagery provides such a precise view from space «that we are able to proactively observe environmental changes which unravel human footprints from thousands of years ago, such as the Ararat anomaly, and contribute to space archeology in a real and meaningful manner.»

A close examination of 3.6 million year old hominin footprints discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania suggests our ancestors evolved the hallmark trait of extended leg, human - like bipedalism substantially earlier than previously thought.

Mommy Footprint is my journey of finding creative ways to engage children in nature and how to avoid chemicals I believe are harmful to the environment and human health.

The UK Space Agency has provided a grant to support the project, which will look at human behaviour through analysis of the carbon footprint of homes and schools alongside the monitoring of changes in polar ice using Earth Observation data.

During all this time, natural ecosystems have developed in co-evolution, but 250 years ago, with the development and industrialization models imposed by the West on the world, anthropogenic action is causing a major ecological and social footprint, hence the urgency to formulate international policies that circumscribe human economic activities within the biophysical limits of Mother Earth.

The footprint of Catholic - school networks like Cristo Rey is tiny compared to those operating in the charter sector, and the human - capital contributions of ACE and its affiliated programs are still a fraction of Teach for America's.

The canine sport of tracking involves training a dog to follow the human scent left in the tracklayer's footprints to locate articles containing the tracklayer's scent which have been dropped at certain locations on the track.

Untouched by human footprints, you can look deep into your soul and discover the joys of being in touch with your inner self.

While Longobardi's Drifters Project functions in the world of the real, these paintings explore the imaginary and near - real and envision a lessened human footprint and nature as an ultimately powerful and enduring presence.

Even in our high - tech times, which recently have been dubbed the era of anthropocene — the irreversible human footprint on earth — nature is indispensable.

Market forces can not be relied upon to regulate human behavior in hazard mitigation any more than they can be trusted to regulate financial greed, or improve our carbon footprints.

Human footprints on greenhouse gas fluxes in cryogenic ecosystems https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1028334X17120133

Karelin et al (2017) «Human footprints on greenhouse gas fluxes in cryogenic ecosystems» This paper presents no evidence on the subject being concerned with direct human impacts on CH4 emissions (which it says will result in a decrease in CH4 emissiHuman footprints on greenhouse gas fluxes in cryogenic ecosystems» This paper presents no evidence on the subject being concerned with direct human impacts on CH4 emissions (which it says will result in a decrease in CH4 emissihuman impacts on CH4 emissions (which it says will result in a decrease in CH4 emissions).

Humans will leave a massive geologial «footprint» — roads, rubbish dumps, graveyards, buildings, shipwrecks — that will still be reasonably clear in a hundred million years» time — unless we clear up after ourselves... Thanks for the great story!

The larger question is the extreme risk (both in human and economic terms) that the exponential growth of the human footprint along the US Southern Coastline has created.

An analysis that gauges our impact on the planet's biological systems, the ecological footprint measures human consumption of natural resources in comparison to Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate them.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.