Sentences with phrase «human settlements as»

Professor Ludwig von Schulmuth studied canine origins by looking at the skeletal remains of dogs found in human settlements as early as the 8th millennium BC.

Alexandria, VA About Blog The Space Frontier Foundation is an organization of people dedicated to opening the Space Frontier to human settlement as rapidly as possible.

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That might seem like a huge stroke of luck for any company, but Johansson signed on after controversially severing her ties as an ambassador with human rights and aid organization Oxfam, which has long opposed Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

Turns out those human aliens don't love Earth very much, as the off - world Settlement Defense Front decides to wage war against the third rock from the sun.

The paper urges NASA to support Amazon's notional shipment service that would bring gear for experiments, as much as 10,000 pounds of cargo, and habitats to aid «future human settlement» on the moon.

It's clear that a new state settlement between the generations which reflects our shared experiences as human beings is urgently needed.

The Asian bush mosquito can adapt to natural habitats such as mountain regions as well as to the infrastructure of human settlements.

Coss» paper grew out of a 2015 study in which he and a former graduate student reported that zebras living near human settlements could not be approached as closely before fleeing as wild horses when they saw a human approaching on foot — staying just outside the effective range of poisoned arrows used by African hunters for at least 24,000 years.

Although the origin of settlements and of agriculture is usually seen in economic and environmental terms — as the discovery of a new process whereby human beings could extract a living from their surroundings — Hodder sees it post-processually.

But most of the real evidence may never come to light, Davis argues, because scientists have been strong - armed into silence by companies who fund their work, and because, as a condition of any settlement, lawyers have kept the human evidence sealed.

Using a combination of satellite and ground data, the team can map multiple indicators of monkey distribution, including human activity zones as inferred from roads and settlements, direct detections from mosquito - derived iDNA, animal sound recordings, plus detections of other species that are usually found when monkeys are present, such as other large vertebrates.

As early as 700 B.C., Chinese authorities were encouraging peasant farmers to move into remote regions of the plateau, citing the need to feed a large and growing population while establishing a buffer of human settlement against the threat of nomadic invaders along its northern bordeAs early as 700 B.C., Chinese authorities were encouraging peasant farmers to move into remote regions of the plateau, citing the need to feed a large and growing population while establishing a buffer of human settlement against the threat of nomadic invaders along its northern bordeas 700 B.C., Chinese authorities were encouraging peasant farmers to move into remote regions of the plateau, citing the need to feed a large and growing population while establishing a buffer of human settlement against the threat of nomadic invaders along its northern border.

A new theory suggests that the thick forests that we think of as wild may actually be an effect of human settlement.

At the same time, Stiner and her colleagues found, the locals started eating fewer tortoises and mollusks and more hares, as evidenced by the bones found at human settlements.

«Turkeys would have made a good choice for domestication as there were not many other animals of suitable temperament available and turkeys would have been drawn to human settlements searching for scraps»

The study's findings may help conservationists, the scientists say, as the elephants face new pressures from climate change and human settlements.

But distinct Neolithic - style personal ornaments and architecture also turn up in late Mesolithic sites such as Lepenski Vir in Serbia, a large settlement rich in burials and art such as boulders sculpted with half - human, half - fish images.

-- Moyzis and Wang theorize that natural selection probably favored different abilities and dispositions as modern groups adapted to the increasingly complex social order ushered in by the first human settlements.

The act also designated 8 million acres of ANWR as wilderness and thus off - limits to human settlement, and directed that the 1002 area — the 1.5 million acres of coastal land between the Brooks Range and the Beaufort Sea — could be surveyed for possible oil and gas resources.

After his required service as a cavalry platoon commander in the Dutch army, de Boer got his first U.N. job, serving in Canada and Nairobi for the human settlement program.

It suggests that the early hunter - gatherer settlements transformed ecological interactions and food webs, allowing house mice that benefited from human settlements to out - compete wild mice and establish themselves as the dominant population.

These systems are important for understanding the past and planning for the future due to their potential for direct impact on very current issues such as food security and the sustainability of human settlement in particular areas.»

This final human settlement, dubbed «New Los Angeles», now serves as the last speck of humanity in the universe, and it must find a way to co-exist with Mira's indigenous people, the Nopon.

Wolves found easy pickings in the garbage heaps near human settlements, and, as the wolves became more accustomed to humans and vice versa, humans probably found equally easy pickings among the wolf cubs.

Just as cats 10,000 years ago were attracted to the easy, consistent food source that the first human settlements provided (see The Natural History of the Cat), feral cats today scavenge on the scraps that all human habitats inevitably produce.1 A study of a feral cat colony in Brooklyn found that the cats depended more on local garbage for food than on either prey or food provided by caregivers, and that the neighborhood produced enough garbage to feed three times more cats than actually lived in that area.2

Prior to retirement from the public service, she served as Director General of Human Resources and Transition Management, helping staff fulfill commitments to survivors under the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.

They want the bears to identify humans and dogs as enemies, so the bears decide to keep away from human settlements... and they will teach that to their cubs.

Still as of today, this breed is used to keep bears away from human settlements.

Although they proved to be very useful in the lives of our ancestors, they were still not regarded as pets since dogs only lived in the outskirts of human settlements.

As medium - sized carnivores, domestic cats, Felis catus, are usually strictly associated with human settlements and have been introduced by humans all over the world.

Here nature dominates as there are hardly any human settlements to speak of.

You should also know that there are no hotels in Cocos island as the Costa Rican Government has strictly imposed a No Human Settlement Policy since it has been declared a National Marine Park and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

With morale rock bottom, and humans and Varl alike dying en route to the next settlement, I was offered an unlikely lifeline as the next narrative quandary centred on the theft of supplies.

Appears south of Ioka Village in Prehistory, the maze serves as a natural barrier between the human settlements and the Reptite Lair.

As you progress, you'll face increasingly tough challenges, from a few puny humans trying in vain to defend their settlements, to huge battleships and clashes with other gigantic kaiju.

As before, you'll take control of a human settlement amid the undead apocalypse, swapping between characters on the fly to seek out resources and fight the freaky shamblers.

From 1995 - 2013, she worked for the United Nations Human Settlements Programme UN-HABITAT as leader of the centre for expertise for Central and Eastern Europe.

In this multi-part exhibition the artist looks at Mars as a place for settlement and a resource for our own planet, as well as a site of possible human origin.

As water can exist in several distinct states (solid, liquid or gas) and move from one to another, a human society may also be seen as a material capable of undergoing these changes of states as it reaches critical mass in terms of density of settlement, amount of energy consumed or even intensity of interactioAs water can exist in several distinct states (solid, liquid or gas) and move from one to another, a human society may also be seen as a material capable of undergoing these changes of states as it reaches critical mass in terms of density of settlement, amount of energy consumed or even intensity of interactioas a material capable of undergoing these changes of states as it reaches critical mass in terms of density of settlement, amount of energy consumed or even intensity of interactioas it reaches critical mass in terms of density of settlement, amount of energy consumed or even intensity of interaction.

This seventh will deal with a range of issues including sustainable cities and human settlements, sustainable transport; sustainable consumption and production (including chemicals and waste) as well as climate change and disaster risk reduction.

«Climate Change» is a general term used when referring to a wide range of effects brought about by human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and «heat island effects» resulting from buildings and pavement in the major human settlements.

As if the world's land, 25 % of which is already becoming seriously degraded, does not have enough pressures from deforestation, industrial agriculture and sprawling human settlements.

This activity report introduces the new headquarters of both the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UNHABITAT) in Nairobi, presenting it as a a sustainable building showcase.

Besides shrinking sea ice there are currently also other factors that negatively affect polar bears, such as human settlements, industrial activities, hunting, bio-accumulation of toxins, and smaller seal populations.

Review of the urban goal in the Sustainable Development Agenda: In July 2018, nations will convene at a High Level Political Forum to review progress on a subset of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including SDG11 on cities and human settlements, as well as related goals on energy, production and consumption and biodiversity.

The New York Post reported that Oxfam fired Sex and the City actress Kristin Davis as spokeswoman this week after the human rights organization found out she's also been endorsing Ahava makeup — which is made by a company located in the West Bank's Mitzhe Shalem Jewish settlement, considered «disputed» land.

Since forests support not just ecosystems and species that are beautiful for their own sakes and valuable both as resources and as tourist attractions, but also deliver «services» in the form of water management and global air - conditioning, human settlements will soon feel their loss.

Yet climate change is not the only stress on human settlements, but rather it coalesces with other stresses, such as scarcity of water or governance structures that are inadequate even in the absence of climate change (Feng et al., 2006; Sherbinin et al., 2006; Solecki and Rosenzweig, 2007).

Justice Smith considered the success of Vigna at trial, which exceeded the numerous settlement offers, as well as the malice of Levant in his campaign against the Human Rights Commissions, to award costs on a substantial indemnity basis.

For example, as opposed to investor - state dispute settlement a requirement to exhaust local remedies could be established akin to the requirement before ECHR claims can be brought by individuals before the European Court of Human Rights.