Sentences with phrase «human impacts on the planet»

And how about we start doing something about the human impact on the planet?

Choosing the right approach is vital as the scale of human impact on the planet becomes so large that scientists are calling this new epoch in Earth's history the Anthropocene (when human activity alters global climate and ecosystems).

Climatologists suggest the traces could define the start of a proposed age of accelerated human impact on the planet.

Scientists debate whether hunting, farming, smallpox or the nuclear bomb define the start of irreversible human impacts on our planet

Opening Friday, September 5, 5 - 8 pm Amy Balkin Adriane Colburn Blane De St. Croix Mark Dion Julie Heffernan Gideon Mendel This exhibition brings together recent work by six artists whose creative practices are propelled by keen attention to the insidious effects of human impact on the planet, in light of escalating environmental disaster.

In Mr. Chambaud's case, the urine is from animals and refers to the Anthropocene or urbanizing human impact on the planet.

Burtynsky's practice eloquently chronicles human impact on the planet, and his images are widely regarded as key visual documents of our time.

There's a long chain of United Nations conclaves that have aimed at blunting the human impact on the planet's biological patrimony.

This means that the Vatican's backing of reductions in fossil fuel use would actually reduce human well - being and increase the human impact on the planet» [33]

A streamlined set of goals for reducing carbon emissions could simplify the way nations approach the quest to reduce human impact on the planet.

It is also about the increasingly trendy idea of the Anthropocene: the suggestion that human impact on the planet is so great that we have, collectively become not just a geological force but the dominant one in the modern age, and that our impacts will be seen in the geological record for eons to come.

Odd how so many here go on about energy and CO2 when in fact our problem, as Tom «Do the Math» really points out, is the unsustainable nature of human impact on the planets resources....

But they too suffer from human impacts on the planet, even down to climate change.

Therefore, growth in population and consumption per capita have both played comparably important roles in the remarkable increase of human impact on planet Earth.

Not exact matches

Dr. Kaza applauds Dr. Paul O. Ingram's enthusiasm for Buddhist - Christian dialogue on the critical topic concerning the terrible cumulative impacts on the planet's air and water, landforms and ecosystems and their devastation as an outcome of human activity over the recent past.

Even in the deepest, darkest, most inaccessible location on the planet, the impact of human civilization is still evident on the ocean floor.

Ultimately, NEON hopes to show how humans can maintain our quality of life on this planet by better understanding how ecosystems deliver vital services — clean water, air, pollination — and respond to our own impacts on these systems.

Science's picks for Areas to watch in 2017 are human embryo research, Zika vaccine trials, the search for Planet Nine, and the impacts on research of the U.S. election and «Brexit» vote.

Most importantly, however, regardless of impacts on the planet, the human condition has likely never been better in terms of material prosperity.

We need to put the impact that humans have on this planet into a historic and geologic context.»

«I see it as humans» first big impact on the planet,» says Doughty.

Chris Darimont discusses the impact of humans» unique predatory behavior on the planet, and Catherine Matacic talks with Sarah Crespi about whistled languages, Neolithic massacres, and too many gas giants.

The Exxon Valdez oil spill recently marked its 20th anniversary, a reminder of the devastating impact that human activity can have on even the farthest reaches of the planet.

«Many datasets, for example, the data for the total concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases, show that human population has been a strong driver of the total impact of humans on our planet Earth.

Although much attention has been given to the cataclysmic impact that an astrophysical event would have on human life, very little has been published around what it would take to kill the tardigrade, and wipe out life on this planet.

The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.

The Foundation seeks to bring about a keener appreciation of the role of science, particularly research in the Polar Regions, through a re-examination of the planet's interconnections, its fragility, the impact of human actions on the environment, and the evolution of millennial climate cycles.

If we are to stop this from escalating and reduce the danger on those who inhabit this planet (human, fauna, and flora), we all need to do our part and reduce our impact on the Earth.

The findings show just how profound the impact humans are having on the planet, says Prof Andrew Watson, Royal Society research professor at the University of Exeter:

The findings highlight the huge impact that humans are having on the planet, say scientists not involved in the study.

New research suggests that the impact of humans on the planet is pushing back when the Earth might descend into its next ice age.

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.

NASA scientists are crisscrossing the globe in 2017 to investigate critical scientific questions about how our planet is changing and what impacts humans are having on it.

VIDEO: «The Impact of Climate Change on Human Health,» Mimi Guarneri, MD, FACC, ABOIM Dr. Mimi Guarneri, President of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine and Medical Director of Guarneri Integrative Health, Inc., Pacific Pearl La Jolla, addresses the 2018 international conference, Health of People, Health of Planet and Our Responsibility - Climate Change, Air Pollution and Health, held in Rio De Janiero, Brazil.

One of these data concerns the ecological footprint that is a good way to measure the impact of human beings on planet Earth.

They are asked to describe some of Earth's greatest natural wonders, how the planet affects our survival as a human race, man's impact (negative and positive) on the environment, and how they can change their daily routines in order to help preserve planet Earth.

By feeding wholesome, nutritious foods that are not usually consumed by humans, you help create a more sustainable planet and diminish the impact of meat production on our ecosystem.

Gene & Kinna fully support the protection of wild areas on the planet as well as laws and regulations which minimize the human impacts on the earth.

His imagery explores the collective impact we as a species are having on the surface of the planet; an inspection of the human systems we've imposed onto natural landscapes.

Curated by Zoe Roos, Disassemble / Reassemble highlights the relationship between humans and nature, particularly the impact that human life has on the planet.

The theme of the pavilion asked artists to explore the human impact on the natural world and the future preservation and sustainability of the planet's environment and ecosystem.

In his dark series Shadow of Knives, Chinese artist Li Hongbo makes a cut - throat statement on the state of human beings and our impact on the planet.

With this exhibition Jonas evokes the fragility of nature, using her own poetic language to address the irreversible impact of human interference on the environmental equilibrium of our planet.

The only realistic way to solve the problems of human's impact on the planet is to have fewer humans living on it.

Re» We will effectively never find out what the human impact on the climate system actually is — whether we are heating the planet or cooling it or having no impact whatsoever.»

Planet Under Pressure, a four - day conference exploring how science can identify and limit risks in the face of increasing human impacts on the Earth, has ended * with a call for «urgent action» against the the unrelenting buildup of greenhouse gases.

More specifically, the sustainability movement is quickly learning that «Green Teams» and small numbers of sustainability professionals alone will be insufficient to «turn the ship» fast enough or far enough to effectively reverse the impacts humans are having on the planet.

[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.

I encourage you to dig in on this paper and related work, which provides a useful guide for softening the human impact on a crowding planet.

I hope that while placing the Tunguska event into perpspective we also come to realize that our false sense of security regarding impacts like this and worse is largely perceptual based on our limited understanding of our own history and its woefully human timescale, and I hope we realize that impacts might not be the rare events we've come to consider them as being, and that they may not arrive singularly and only on rare occasions, but as swarms of potentially devastating event producers, as our planet enters into regions of our Milky Way where clouds of potentially planet - disrupting objects are a genuine concern and are something we can and should do something about... and soon.