Sentences with phrase «human impact on environments by»

«We can use this information to look at questions about climate change or human impact on environments by seeing how, over time, the ranges of insect species have changed.»

Not exact matches

Once we collectively understand our situation: the contribution made by humans to the degradation of the environment and the extinction of other species, or the impact consumers in the rich West have had, and continue to have, on the impoverishment of producers in developing countries, our proper response is to want to change things - and to change them radically.»

The Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) must be satisfied by the plant's impact on human health, animal health and the eEnvironment (ACRE) must be satisfied by the plant's impact on human health, animal health and the environmentenvironment.

As a nature enthusiast and bird - watcher who also is afflicted by asthma, she is concerned about air pollution and the impact humans are having on the global environment.

A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.

The Human Impact on the Natural Environment by Andrew Goudie, Blackwell, pp 432, Pounds sterling 50 hbk, Pounds sterling 14.99 pbk

The study, performed in Garfield County, Colo., between July 2010 and October 2011, was done by researchers at The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, a non-profit organization that examines the impact of low - level exposure to chemicals on the environment and human health.

The international working group, which includes geologists Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams and Colin Waters, from the University of Leicester's School of Geography, Geology and the Environment and archaeologist Matt Edgeworth has, since 2009, been analysing the case for formalisation of the Anthropocene, a potential new epoch of geological time dominated by overwhelming human impact on the Earth.

NIH Clinical Center (CC)-- Est. in 1953 The NIH Clinical Center, America's research hospital, provides a versatile clinical research environment enabling the NIH mission to improve human health by investigating the pathogenesis of disease; conducting first - in - human clinical trials with an emphasis on rare diseases and diseases of high public health impact; developing state - of - the - art diagnostic, preventive, and therapeutic interventions; training the current and next generations of clinical researchers; and, ensuring that clinical research is ethical, efficient, and of high scientific quality.

By reducing humans to just a few inches tall you can pack an entire city into a space the size of a football pitch and massively reduce their impact on the environment.

12.4 by 2020 achieve environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle in accordance with agreed international frameworks and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment

By providing greater accountability of investment in environmental restoration projects, REF helps justify the case for minimizing adverse impacts on human health and the environment.

This is a point that Salford University's School of the Built Environment would certainly endorse, because a recent study conducted by the Salford team revealed that the built environment has a big impact on the learning progress, human performance andEnvironment would certainly endorse, because a recent study conducted by the Salford team revealed that the built environment has a big impact on the learning progress, human performance andenvironment has a big impact on the learning progress, human performance and wellbeing.

Research by Environment and Climate Change Canada found that the top human - related impacts on birds are due to predation by free - roaming cats (feral and owned outdoor cats).

Art for the Environment, curated by Camilla Palestra, will present work from six artists with practices that explore the nature of human impact on our eEnvironment, curated by Camilla Palestra, will present work from six artists with practices that explore the nature of human impact on our environmentenvironment.

Sarah Rose presents a new body of work in room 4, commissioned by the gallery for NOW, which reflects upon processes of material transformation and the impact that humans have on the environment.

The use of incentives and investment to spur intensified research on nonpolluting energy choices is not going reduce GHG emissions by 80 % by 2050, which is what the vast majority of scientists say is needed to avert the worst impacts of climate change on human health and the environment.

This will have to be seen as an experiment, given the uneven success of efforts by industry, environmental groups, and governments to limit pollution and other harmful human impacts on fragile environments.

Called «Many Heavens, One Earth,» the meeting is intended to generate commitments for actions by religious organizations, congregants and countries that could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases or otherwise limit the human impact on the environment.

[J] ust as humanity confronted «revolutionary change» (Rerum Novarum) in the19th century at the time of Industrialization, today we have changed the natural environment so much that scientists, using a word coined by our Academy, tend to define our era as the Anthropocene, that is to say, a period of time in which human action is having a decisive impact on the planet due to the use of fossil fuels.

This new geological epoch is defined by the fact that the «human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system».

(through drastic slashing of manufacturing technologies, draconian cap and trade taxation, repossession of private property, and a whole host of other proceedures of questionable value), and on the other, you have the alternative medicine quack that says «The pain is all in your mind» (EG, the non-scientists that say that human released carbon dioxide has no impact on the environment whatsoever, in spite of the fact that this is not supported by even the slightest bit of chemical evidence.)

Beyond the impacts on Mr. Ona Essangui himself, we are deeply concerned that respect for the environment and for human rights in Gabon is undermined by this case.»

Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the health of oceans and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals and nitrogen - based compounds, from numerous marine and land - based sources, and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle and waste in ways that lead to the prevention and minimization of significant adverse effects on human health and the environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to humanenvironment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to humanEnvironment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to humanEnvironment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to humanenvironment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human health; 1.

Science: Climate scientists say any positives are far outweighed by the negative impacts of global warming on agriculture, human health, the economy and the environment.

So profound has been the influence of humans, Nobelist Crutzen and his colleagues later wrote, that the Earth has entered a new geological epoch defined by a single, troubling fact: the «human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system.»

And at the moment every single major pipeline (as well as incremental expansions to existing pipelines) is facing mounting public, legal, and political opposition — all of which has been driven by people power that refuses to accept the devastating impacts of the Alberta tar sands on the climate, the environment, human rights, and communities.

So profound has been the influence of humans that Earth scientists have recently declared that the Earth has entered a new geological epoch, a new epoch defined by the fact that the «human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system».

Therefore mitigating global warming will address both the synergistic harm that it wreaks in concert with the non-climate damage to the environment, and it will address the direct effect that it will have on species and ecosystem - an effect that, if warming is not properly addressed for a few more decades, will make all other human impacts pale by comparison.

A March 2011 report by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), «Fossilized Thinking: The World Bank, Eskom, and the Real Cost of Coal» examined the economics underlying the World Bank's $ 3 billion loan for the Eskom plant, evaluating whether the Bank adequately considered the project's impacts on human health and the environment and the likely economic costs of these impacts.

There is GREAT UNCERTAINTY as to WHEN our planet will be hit by a major asteroid, although it is fairly CERTAIN that this will happen again some day, and — when it does — it is fairly CERTAIN (based on previous incidents) that the impact on our environment and on human society will be DISASTROUS.

[3] Thus, environmental policy focuses on problems arising from human impact on the environment, which retroacts onto human society by having a (negative) impact on human values such as good health or the «clean and green» environment.

In the canonical statement of the Anthropocene, the proposed new division in the geological timescale is defined by the observation that the «human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system» (W. Steffen et al..

More than 170 leading artists and figures in Britain's art world have also written an open letter protesting the relationship, calling the BP logo «a stain on the Tate's international reputation» and corporate sponsorship a means by which companies can gain «social legitimacy» to distract the public «from their impacts on human rights, the environment and the global climate.»

While I'm sure many readers have heard or read conflicting reports about the healthiest way to nourish the human body, the Double Pyramid raises a very important point that isn't considered often enough by North American eaters and dieters — that everything we eat, for whatever reasons those may be, has an impact on the environment.

'' «Electrosmog» refers to the electromagnetic fields emitted by computers and mobile phones, «eco-village» is a term used for small ecologically - sustainable communities and «carbon footprint» is the measure of the impact human activities on the environment.»

The second session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (Geneva, 10 - 15 May 2009) will review progress made toward achieving the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation goal that by 2020 chemicals will be produced and used in ways that minimize significant adverse impacts on the environment and human health.