Sentences with phrase «humans driving changes»

How are humans driving changes in the chemistry of the ocean, and what might this mean for marine ecosystems in the future?

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From electric cars that can drive themselves to modernized public transport such as the Hyperloop to human - sized drones and hover boards (real ones, not those silly two - wheeled contraptions that catch on fire), we are entering an era of potentially dramatic change on the transportation front.

Then I saw how Elon Musk invested his time and money into SpaceX, Tesla, and PayPal (all human - driven companies that change the world).

Maybe ignoring the competition was fine advice a decade ago, but with technology driving change at a pace never seen before in human history, entrepreneurs can't afford not to follow their competitors, at least to some extent.

Those changes have been driven by human - caused greenhouse gas emissions, which are warming the world and causing Earth's climate to change faster than reefs can keep up.

Many such experts say the disasters in the sprawling suburban and petro - industrial landscape around Houston and along the crowded coasts of Florida reinforce the urgent idea that resilient infrastructure is needed more than ever, particularly as human - driven climate change helps drive extreme weather.

Page oversaw major changes to Google's business structure in 2015, starting with the creation of Alphabet, the holding company that manages Google and all of its related ventures, including Nest, Calico, and Google X. Previously the chief executive of Google, Page moved up to helm Alphabet, which has its hands in everything from home automation to self - driving cars to prolonging human life.

One problem is that dangerous levels of climate change are exacerbated by positive feedback loops — changes that release more greenhouse gases from nature due to warming driven by humans.

Seven Peaks Ventures was founded on the core thesis that software driven technologies are fundamentally transforming every business and changing human lives.

Meanwhile, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt told CNBC that he doesn't think human - produced carbon dioxide is driving climate change.

The more important takeaway, though, is that this upheaval is happening at all: even a seemingly impenetrable clubby human interaction - driven industry like venture capital is susceptible to change that, in retrospect, is really quite radical.

The afternoon of GCUC Day One featured several presentations that focused on how the human factor and connections that are inherent in coworking can drive change in cities and lives.

The onward drive of «Evolution'therefore, does not lie in material mutation, nor in any fundamental change to human nature and its laws of good and true.

Education can not change human heart, nor it can drive the darkness out of it.

This complex of economically driven changes has displaced religion as the primary location of values and institutional loyalty and as the primary community of human relations.

At Beyond Meat, innovation is driven by four core concerns: human health, animal welfare, use of land, water and energy, and climate change.

We are now beginning to understand some facets of human emotionality, decision - making, morality, trauma and the drive for political power down to the cellular level, by observing changes in neurochemistry, neural pathways, and neuro - anatomical transformations in the brain.

There is absolutely no doubt (despite what the nation's leaders argue) that the planet is heating up and that human activities are driving those changes.

These weather events turned extreme thanks to human - driven climate change.

IN A rare instance of humans beating one of the impacts of climate change, measures to combat malaria appear to be neutralising the expected global increase of the disease driven by rising temperatures.

Climate change is not driven just by increased greenhouse gas concentrations; other mechanisms — both natural and human - induced — also play a part.

In the pages that follow, we lay out the key findings that document the extent of change and that point to the unavoidable conclusion that human activity is driving it.

«This research does not change the consensus view that human emissions drive climate change,» says Fortunat Joos, a climate modeller at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

It is clear that climate change is happening, driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, and its impacts will be felt around the world.

«If you look at what drives us as humans, the social component is the only reliable thing that makes people change behavior.

All of these changes drove mammoth populations down and reduced their geographic range, MacDonald says, making them «very vulnerable to even slight increases in hunting pressure from humans.»

According to the paper, warmer tropical waters since the mid-18th century can be the result of both natural variability and human - driven climate changes.

The researchers say that rising ocean temperatures, driven by human - caused climate change, are mostly to blame.

The investigation of self - reported sleep patterns and nighttime temperatures across the United States is one of the first studies to provide evidence that rising temperatures, driven by climate change, could affect human sleep.

The authors suggest that human activity may even be driving a similar Lilliput - like pattern in the modern world, as more and more large animals go extinct because of hunting, habitat destruction, and climate change.

The calling patterns of three million cell phone users support a theory that female relationships change with shifting biological priorities, suggesting that women drive the evolutionary fitness of humans

Once opened up, formerly intact forests become increasingly susceptible to natural pressures such as disease, fires, and erosion; they become less resilient to human - made climate change, and they become more accessible to human use, driving a spiral of decline.

Research published in the Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2016 Annual Meeting examined how the public's acceptance of automated vehicles changes when presented with a more realistic driving scenario.

«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.»

Human - induced climate change, which affects temperature, precipitation and the nature of extreme events, is increasingly driving biodiversity loss and the reduction of nature's contributions to people, worsening the impact of habitat degradation, pollution, invasive species and the overexploitation of natural resources.»

While some may see evidence of rapid glacier thinning in the past and again today as evidence that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is nearing a collapse driven by human - caused climate change, Steig said at this point, scientists just don't know whether that is the case.

The election of Donald J. Trump as U.S. president, a candidate who called human - driven climate change a hoax, was followed by Trump naming more and more climate - change doubters to run the government's environment and energy agencies.

The discovery won't mean much for climate change: The process occurs over millions of years, and the amounts involved are small compared with human - driven emissions.

Findings in South Africa show that innovation among early humans was not primarily driven by climate change.

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.

Republicans in the House of Representatives have repeatedly pushed NOAA to focus on weather at the expense of research on climate and oceans, driven in part by their scepticism of human - driven climate change.

Species loss has continued into the present day, driven by a variety of factors, including climate change and overharvest by humans.

Climate change complicates transport Human - driven emissions of another kind — carbon — are expected to further complicate how mercury makes its way around the planet, especially in the Arctic.

As we enter the second decade of a decoded, accessible Human Genome, and as progress in therapeutics becomes more data and systems - driven, the discovery process, the business models, the delivery mechanisms and the economics are all starting to change.

The planet's average surface temperature has risen about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1.0 degree Celsius) since the late - 19th century, a change largely driven by increased carbon dioxide and other human - made emissions into the atmosphere.

Proponents say that diverted rivers, industrial mining, deforestation, extinctions, and urbanization, among other human - driven phenomena, have made deep and permanent changes to the planet that will show up in sediment millions of years from now.

Study co-author Jianguo Liu of Michigan State University, who began studying the human and natural forces driving habitat loss in the panda's geographic range in 1996, noted that some of the changes that have occurred in the region are encouraging.

In addition, given that many human influences are driving both climate change and biodiversity loss, researchers should look for «win - win» solutions wherever possible.

These variations originate primarily from fluctuations in carbon uptake by land ecosystems driven by the natural variability of the climate system, rather than by oceans or from changes in the levels of human - made carbon emissions.

The researchers further recommend that, given that many human influences are driving both climate change and biodiversity loss, conservationists should aim for win - win solutions such as the United Nations program REDD + (an extension of the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation programme)-- an initiative that protects forests while also creating benefits for local communities and biodiversity.