Sentences with phrase «human settlements on»

The concept was developed by Iranian architect Nader Khalili who created his Super Adobe system in 1984, in response to a NASA call for designs for human settlements on the Moon and Mars.

This could be the first prototype of reactors that power future human settlements on the moon or Mars.

At the same time, for > 20 years, the Catalina Island Humane Society has practiced TNR at designated cat colonies in Avalon and Two Harbors, the 2 largest human settlements on the island.

Here and in many other places around the world, we are discovering the remains of human settlements on what is now the seabed.

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

This paper indicates humans were living for prolonged periods in the Peruvian Andes, at altitudes of 13 - 14,000 feet within a few millenia of the oldest reported human settlement on the South American continent.

The new process would not require the help of additives of complex machinery and technology and could potentially make human settlement on the Red Planet easy.

-- Trump administration may direct NASA to set up a human settlement on the Moon.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

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).

Much of their work focuses on the house mouse (Mus musculus), which evolved to be commensal with humans: The mice are not domesticated like dogs or sheep, but they are dependent on living in and around a human settlement.

Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) and other nearby outposts can survive on supplies shipped from Earth, but for any human settlement to persist farther out, the thin thread of an Earth - based supply chain will prove dangerously fragile.

Some 11,000 years ago, humans living in the ancient Middle East region called the Fertile Crescent shifted from a nomadic existence, based on hunting game and gathering wild plants, to a more sedentary lifestyle that would later give rise to permanent 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.

While a lot of archeological work had been done on these settlements, this is the first study to examine the genetic properties of the human remains.

They then estimated the yearly mutation rate on the Y chromosome by calibrating it with a known event: the human settlement of the Americas that occurred about 15,000 years ago.

Nigel Henbest focuses on human issues associated with a permanent Mars settlement (13 July, p 43).

Those involved claim they will «establish the first [human] settlement on Mars in 2023» and «to fund the one - way trip» will make a TV reality show.

Saturn's largest moon could suit human settlement — provided we can keep the lights on.

After reading background information, participants negotiated against each other in order to arrive at a settlement on seven issues related to human resource management and compensation.

A previous study on human settlement, led by Balloux, estimated human emergence from the same locale to have occurred 51,500 to 61,500 years ago.

«Los Angeles mountain lions hunt closer to human settlements than expected: While male lions prey on deer in riparian woodlands, females hunt on average less than a mile from human development.»

«You've got bears that are spending increasing amounts of time on land becoming nutritionally stressed, moving into areas of human settlements,» says Todd Atwood, a wildlife biologist at the US Geological Survey.

Beyond this, it could also have devastating effects on human settlements of Arctic indigenous communities.

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.»

Based on this assertion, the difference between the new claims and the old assumptions of human settlement in the Americas is more than a 100,000 years.

This includes MOUs with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC / UNESCO); the International Maritime Organization (IMO); the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP); the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA); the State Oceanic Administration of the People's Republic of China (SOA); the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT); the Cluster of Excellence on the Future Ocean at Christian - Albrechts Universitat zu Kiel, Germany; the European Centre for Information on Marine Science and Technology (EurOcean); the University of Malta; the State Enterprise on Caspian Sea Issues at the President of Turkmenistan in Turkmenistan; and the High Seas Alliance among others.

«This in turn indicates that the domestication of dogs may be connected to the human development of agriculture and that it was on the scrap heaps of early settlements that the first steps of the development of dogs took place.»

We've got it good here in the Milky Way, but if the human species is to continue on, finding another settlement might be necessary to our survival.

The Mars Society, the world's largest space advocacy group dedicated to the human exploration and settlement of the planet Mars, seeks to educate and inform the public, the media and the government about the importance of exploring Mars and the need to create a second home for humanity on the Red Planet.

He was an advocate for human settlement of Mars, worked with NASA on every space expedition over several decades, and edited Icarus, the scientific journal of solar system studies.

We analyzed human coprolites from the Huecoid and Saladoid cultures from a settlement on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico.

From Wikipedia: Permaculture is a theory of ecological design which seeks to develop sustainable human settlements and agricultural systems, by attempting to model them on natural ecosystems.

The oldest evidence of human settlement in the Caribbean has been found at Ortoiroid sites on Trinidad dating to the mid-6th millennium BC.

Set aboard the Covenant, a colonization ship on its way to a remote planet to form a new human settlement, the main crew (all couples) and their android, Walter, enjoy one last meal together before cryosleep.

On the planet Draco, colonized by refugees from Earth, a mysterious indigenous dragon is spreading the Crimsonscale disease, laying waste to human settlements.

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

Consequently, cat populations reach high densities near human settlements, so they impose relatively strong hunting pressure on prey populations (Baker et al. 2005; Sims et al. 2008; Thomas et al. 2012).

Elephants in India frequently infringe on human settlements where people attempt to drive them off using fire crackers and incendiary devices.

But essentially these are the dogs that have lived a free - ranging life, foraging on the outskirts of or entirely away from human settlements and changing little over the course of their history.

Most likely, it was wolves that approached us, not the other way around, probably while they were scavenging around garbage dumps on the edge of human settlements.

Human settlements are restricted to the remaining 3 % in specifically zoned rural and urban areas on four islands (a fifth island only has an airport, tourism dock, fuel containment, and military facilities).

San Cristobal is one of the five largest islands of the Galapagos Archipelago; one of the oldest of the group geologically speaking; the one with the most amount of natural fresh water (just on Floreana and San Cristobal) and also one of the oldest human settlements in the islands with a stable population since the second half of the 19th Century.

Situated on the slope of mount Batur, at the highest physical elevation of any human settlement in the island of Bali, the village of Sukawana offers a great panoramic view of Mount Batur and its...

Situated on the slope of mount Batur, at the highest physical elevation of any human settlement in the island of Bali, the village of Sukawana offers a great panoramic view of Mount Batur and its vicinity; it also provides a good angle for the photographer to capture the beauty of mount Batur, Abang and Agung simultaneously.

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.

A quiet settlement somewhere far away from the monsters (both human and undead), where she can live in peace and try to process the shocking events she's experienced over the course of her short life (which, on my file, includes eating human flesh.

Introduced into their culture via the Xi'an settlement on Oya III, the inhabitants there learned to love riding space bikes from their Human neighbors.