Sentences with phrase «human settlements expand»

In Africa, people encounter chimpanzees and other apes when human settlements expand into ape habitats, through activities like tourism and research, and when apes leave the forests to raid crops.

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The combined area of the three biologically productive systems on land is shrinking, while what is left, wasteland and areas covered with human settlements, are expanding (Brown 1990).

«We are currently working towards expanding this study to cover all agglomerations, cities, and human settlements on Earth.

The invitation - only Pioneering Space National Summit, held in February in Washington, D.C., yielded a declaration that «the long - term goal of the human spaceflight and exploration program of the United States is to expand permanent human presence beyond low - Earth orbit and to do so in a way that will enable human settlement and a thriving space economy.»

Conservationists say that adding to the water capacity of the Las Vegas area, which already has 1.8 million residents, could just foster more growth in a region that, especially in a warming world, is the last place to consider expanding human settlements.