Sentences with phrase «human population decrease»

As the authors note, the vampire population increases geometrically and the human population decreases geometrically.

Until the human population decreases significantly, nothing else stands a chance.

Not exact matches

The flourishing of human life and cultures is compatible with a substantial decrease of the human population.

Research in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other developed countries, among predominantly middle - class populations, provides strong evidence that human milk feeding decreases the incidence and / or severity of diarrhea,1 - 5 lower respiratory infection,6 - 9 otitis media,3,10 - 14bacteremia, 15,16 bacterial meningitis, 15,17 botulism, 18 urinary tract infection, 19 and necrotizing enterocolitis.20, 21 There are a number of studies that show a possible protective effect of human milk feeding against sudden infant death syndrome,22 - 24insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus,25 - 27 Crohn's disease, 28,29 ulcerative colitis, 29 lymphoma, 30,31 allergic diseases,32 - 34 and other chronic digestive diseases.35 - 37 Breastfeeding has also been related to possible enhancement of cognitive development.38, 39

The health risks associated with formula feeding for premature infants include increased incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis, 5 delayed brainstem maturation, 6 decreased scoring on cognitive and developmental tests,7 - 10 and decreased visual development.11, 12 Thus, human - milk feeding of premature infants is desirable, and effective strategies to increase breastfeeding rates in this population are needed.

«I think the reduction of habitat definitely decreased their population size,» Hung says, noting something similar may explain the extinction of other outbreak species in North America, like the Rocky Mountain grasshopper in the western U.S. «Our study suggests that the combination of natural population size changes and human disturbances drove the rapid extinction of this bird.»

By the 1950s, a declining mayfly population in the western basin of Lake Erie indicated widespread anthropogenic eutrophication (human activities resulting in more nutrients such as phosphorus in the water, leading in turn to decreased oxygen levels).

Human population has doubled in the past 35 years; in the same period, the number of invertebrate animals — such as beetles, butterflies, spiders and worms — has decreased by 45 percent.

This research could have important implications for developing countries whose populations rely on rice as a staple of their diets and are in need of cheap, readily available material to improve soil quality and decrease arsenic levels that threaten human health.

Changes in precipitation patterns and possibly decreased precipitation in some parts of Africa, which will be unable to support crops and human habitation in the future, would have repercussions, said Roger - Mark De Souza, director of population, environmental security and resilience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Human population will not decrease, and one day, human will inhabit all of snow leaopards» habHuman population will not decrease, and one day, human will inhabit all of snow leaopards» habhuman will inhabit all of snow leaopards» habitat.

A mild deficiency in humans can decrease various T cells and their sub populations, as shown in an experimental model study.1, 2

The human population continues to decrease because of a sterility problem, while a new threat, «the hybrids» have formed an army to obliterate mankind.

One study found that nuisance to animal control about cats decreased after a TNR program was implemented — even though the human population increased.

Obesity is not only an issue for the human population, it is a major factor in dogs and can cause decreased life expectancy.

Regular daily contact with human can make a cat friendlier, and in some situations, a caretaker bringing cats food once or twice a day can decrease and control the population of a feral cat colony.

These efforts, despite damaging the shark population, were shown to be ineffective in decreasing the number of interactions between humans and tiger sharks.

In Miscreated a world - wide war has monumentally decreased the human population due to nuclear warfare and the spreading of radiation sickness.

The disturbing decrease in fish populations is due to overfishing by humans, not to a sudden surge of fish consumption among cetaceans.

What we need to be careful of is thinking that a majority of our fellow humans agree with us on such crucial issues as the need to slow or even reverse population growth or the need to decrease our use of fossil fuels.

Changing lightbulbs, decreasing energy consumption, reducing auto dependence, reducing wasteful consumption, reducing human population, scaling down industrial society, greatly reducing meat consuption, improving building codes, reducing per capita consumption, eliminating corporate personhood, fix campaign financing, scale down airline travel.

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.

Human population growth rate is expected (UN projections, etc.) to decrease sharply to less than Y / 3 % per year.

It is anticipated by most sources that human population growth rates will decrease sharply from the very high exponential rates seen in the second half of the 20th century.

And finally, perhaps we should pay less attention to global warming / climate change and more attention to decreased biodiversity and, ultimately, increased human population size behind it!

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Presumably, the CO2 enriched atmosphere was also a factor and as the CO2 emissions from burning carbon laid down in the distant past increases (as it inevitably will) and the temperature sensitivity of the atmosphere to increased concentrations decreases (it's probably quite low now anyway), the biosphere will thrive while the human population stabilizes due to increased wealth and education.

Over same period, human population increased 1.7 times and average human quality of life, affluence and life expectancy at birth have increased dramatically, while starvation rates have decreased.

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Next up after that is decreasing our demand and our footprint by halting then reversing human population growth.

Rural populations are declining, and the human pressure in some regions is decreasing.