Sentences with phrase «human population facing»

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Marine life faces continued threats, but the recovery of the shark population is a sign that humans are doing something right.

Sociological theology needs ecological theology in order to widen its horizons to the actual situation of the majority of the human population who face an increasingly desperate and neglected plight in their rural villages.

Man can reshape the conditions of his life, change the face of nature, eliminate killing diseases, reconstruct the human body, control the growth of population in ways beyond anything remotely conceivable before the twentieth century.

More fundamental are problems which human beings have always faced when trying to shape their future — only now these problems bode incalculable harm because of the growth in population, and the growth in power of technology.

A new report from FPI looks at the importance of jobs in the nonprofit health care and social assistance sector in New York City, and examines how the hardships facing the city's low - income population — the main constituency served by the nonprofit human services sector — have grown in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008 - 2009 and the weak recovery over the past three years.

In Africa alone, the continent with the highest fertility rate and lowest use of modern contraceptives, 26 countries will double their population by 2050, according to the U.N. «Fundamentally if you're looking at World Population Day, it is at heart a women's rights issue,» said Roger - Mark DeSouza director of population, environmental security and resilience at the non-partisan policy Wilson Center, based in Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growing.

In the future, irrigated agriculture will face increased water costs driven by competing needs of an increasing human population and probably drier conditions under a changing climate.

«We must face the possibility that Ebola will become endemic among the human population of West Africa, a prospect that has never previously been contemplated,» says author Christl Donnelly of Imperial College London (New England Journal of Medicine, doi.org/vvw).

This species faces a high risk of extinction due to its isolation and tiny population size — it could potentially become the first ape species to be wiped out by human activity.

While it was beyond the scope of this report, analysis of population growth also takes into account how rapid urbanization would change the face of human settlements and affect their ability to adapt to climate change.

River deltas, low - lying landforms that host critical and diverse ecosystems as well as high concentrations of human population, face an uncertain future.

Sometimes, this takes the form of understanding recent adaptations that have evolved within human populations, which gives us an insight into the challenges that our ancestors faced and the kind of traits that helped them survive and prosper.

Mike Morwood: Given the long period of overlap between modern human and «Flores man» populations in the region, it is certain that they came face to face on occasion.

As the human population ages, the understanding of the health concerns that this group is faced with has become increasingly important.

Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead - end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)-- a Jew, an African, and an Arab — give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point.

Not designed as in depth but an overview into some of the areas humans and the population are facing.

Breeders today face more zoning ordinances caused by increased human population pressures.

The influx of moneyed interests to the islands has corroded the empire's adherence to democratic traditions, and the native human population now faces increasing exploitation as Dundar's politicians turn a blind eye.

As bee populations face decline and an uncertain future (and we humans face a hungry future without them), every little bit of innovation and responsible stewardship helps.

Much less challenging, and high profile, is the need, in a world heading toward nine billion people, to figure out how to make everything that's been learned about drought, floods, and other climate - related risks useful to the majority of the human population — people in Niger and Bangladesh who face such risks every day right now, with or without whatever climate destabilization is coming from the ongoing buildup of greenhouse gases.

The climatic stress facing the poor countries of West Africa is not fundamentally different from the climatic stress facing the states of the southwest U.S., namely, less water availability for their burgeoning populations, the former through natural and human - induced variations in the WAM (West African Monsoon) and the latter from natural and human - induced variations in the snowpacks in the Sierra Nevada and Rocky mountains.

Our friends on Green Inc. have posted on a new analysis of challenges facing farmers trying to keep up with growing human populations and appetites:

Let's face it, because no one will: it all comes down to halting human population growth, then slowly shrinking it back to a level where other species have breathing room, and we have a smaller energy footprint on the earth.

Because their elders refused to acknowledge the best available scientific evidence of human population dynamics and, therewith, adequately «diagnose» the distinctly human - induced global predicament all of us face now, the children will not know what hit them, why it is happening, and what is required of them so as not to commit the same mistakes made by the elders.

Consider how the past couple of centuries of human activity and population explosion have altered the face of the earth.

Not only have global carbon emissions continued to rise 3 percent a year, but the science has made more clear that human populations and natural systems face serious risk of substantial climate damage at warming less than 2 °C, they said.

Critics of organic agriculture argue that society can not justify being less efficient with arable land in the face of a rapidly growing human population.

One study has calculated that if present trends continue, 1.8 billion people will be living in absolute water scarcity by 2025, while a full two thirds of the human population will face water stress.With agriculture currently accounting for some 72 % of human water use it seems likely that such steps to reduce water consumption will become a desirable provision of vertical farming in the future.

As photograph Briceño stated: «Despite its dramatic history and the problems it faces, [Rwanda] is investing in a green economy and policies in which both humans and nature can benefit from each other, where they are confident that respect for and preservation of nature will provide for the best health and wealth of its population.»

Undeniably human population growth is at the root of pretty much every single environmental problem we currently face.

We can reasonably surmise that Lomborg is simply expressing his fear in the only way he knows how, by attempting to fight off the harsh realities of climate change and all that it portends for human populations with another version of reality painted by his own imagination to protect him from facing the difficult and highly inconvenient truths our planet is communicating to us.

National Geographic reports that the animals face threats from a growing human population on the islands where they live, as well as being killed by subsistence hunters.

What is perhaps less obvious, however, is that we are faced with some very difficult choices as we struggle to feed the growing human population.

This can be a critical issue, since the northern high - latitude regions not only include very important ecosystems, but they could also face a substantial increase of human population in a changing world with a warming climate.

West Coast LEAF and CLAS are intervening in the case, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users v. DVBIA and COV, to argue that evidentiary requirements to show discrimination under the BC Human Rights Code must not themselves create additional barriers to accessing justice for populations facing historic disadvantage and marginalization.

In the face of non compliance with UNSC Res 1970, several cease - fire declarations by the Gaddafi regime which were not honoured, and a continued threat of force against civilian populations, on 17 March 2011, a majority of the UNSC (five members abstaining namely Brazil, Germany, India, Russia and China) invoked Chapter VII, re-iterated the references to gross human rights abuses and adopted the following additional measures:

I've always found Saharan climatology to be fascinating for another reason — it demonstrates how dramatically the face of our Earth can shift and its effects on human populations.

Prof. Kahol observes that as we move toward a world where human - computer interaction is based on various body movements that are not well documented or studied, we face «serious and grave risk» of creating technology and systems that may lead to musculoskeletal disorders (MSD), and that many of today's multitouch systems give no consideration to eliminating gestures already known to lead to MSD injuries, or to eliminating gestures that are symptomatic of a patient population.

And because professionals in human services serve diverse populations, your skills will help you to overcome any potential barriers you may face.