Sentences with phrase «humans face today»

The archaeologists acknowledged it is a «bit of a leap» to say that what occurred thousands of years ago may help predict how modern - day humans will cope with climate change but lessons from the past offer hint at how people today can survive these changes.The researchers cited the importance of cooperation amid challenges humans face today.

While the body's mechanisms for coping with stress worked wonders to keep us alive thousands of years ago, our body was not built to withstand the chronic stressors that humans face today.

Not exact matches

The struggles faced today by East and West demand a new insight into the human condition, an insight realized in the cross of a self - giving God and consummated in the response of human love and obedience.

But will not the human being's unlimited capacity for perverting potential good into active evil introduce into the arcologies all the problems that we face today?

«Today's decision is disappointing and flies in the face of basic human decency,» Paxton said.

In fact, looking around the world today, the most hopeful sign I see is the human rights movement, which operates from the unprovable and, on its face, improbable moral conviction that all humans are equal and that no human should be abused by any other for any reason whatsoever.

Yet from all sides today modern knowledge of the human creature and his world is forcing us to face up to the finiteness of human existence, to which, in so many ways, Israel pioneered the road.

Two years ago, the Czechs were in the streets of Prague facing Russian tanks, not because of compassion for human want and misery, but because they were not free; the Vietnamese continue to resist America, as they did Japan and France before us, not because of hunger for food but hunger to determine their own destinies; black militants are in the streets of our cities today, not because they are famished — though poverty and want still stalk our land, particularly black communities — but because black citizens, more than any others, have been politically isolated and impotent, unable to act in their own governance.

A thousand years from now our descendants will be facing difficult times, some of their problems being new and others being the same old problems that plague us today, because they will share inevitably in the perennial human predicament.

On a previous post, Sam pointed out the many faces of Human Trafficking today.

We'll explore the ins and outs of school meal program operations, from procurement and finance to lunchroom education and human resources, including the primary challenges that school food programs face today.

It's an exciting and unique discovery that has great global commercial potential to resolve some of the most challenging human health and food concerns facing us today.»

«Today, we are facing rising carbon dioxide contents in the atmosphere through human activities, and the amount of oxygen in the ocean may drop correspondingly in the face of rising seawater temperatures,» Lyons said.

«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.

Yemenis face serious mental health risks, but the issue is being neglected, says a new study released today by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies, Columbia Law School's Human Rights Clinic.

Today's forests have been greatly altered by human activity and face increasing threats from drought, insect infestations and fire.

«One of the contributions of research like this is helping humans understand the challenges large animals face today from climate change,» Groves said.

Rather, they write in a paper published online in the Journal of Anatomy, it appears the chin's emergence in modern humans arose from simple geometry: As our faces became smaller in our evolution from archaic humans to today — in fact, our faces are roughly 15 percent shorter than Neanderthals» — the chin became a bony prominence, the adapted, pointy emblem at the bottom of our face.

Suggesting a human are the modestly sized lower face, a short snout like an early Homo from a couple of million years ago, and petite canines that fit snugly against the incisors, just as they do today.

Today, the need for a clear understanding of how biodiversity is created and maintained has intensified in the face of mass extinctions driven by human activity.

Her focus was on ensuring that «in 2020, when ISS will go away, most likely,» the United States does not face another gap in human spaceflight like today.

When faced with a spewing volcano, people today share many of the same feelings volcano - observers have had throughout human history: We are in awe of the destructive power of nature, and we are unsettled by the thought that a peaceful mountain can suddenly become an unstoppable destructive force!

Environmental challenges are among the most important issues facing human society today.

Not only are women behind the creation of the brand, but the label also co-hosted the Rise on the Runway event in London to use fashion to help draw attention to two horrific issues that still face women today: acid attacks and human trafficking.

The Born Free Foundation, The Donkey Sanctuary and LionAid have collaborated with us to produce these teaching resources about animals, lions, donkeys and humans which tie in with Key Stage 2 science curriculum, so pupils can learn more about these wonderful animals who play a central role in the operas but who face such terrible threats today.

That is the challenge we face today to achieve the MDGs, to which we must reply with a new awareness - identity of «Homeland - Earth», where the human being is seen as a same biological specie with the same evolution, because the future history of our biosphere will depend of the future history of knowledge we develop and how we choose to apply it.

Today's young people, as they move into adulthood, will face momentous issues of responding to environmental degradation, climate change and the role of human activity in causing or exacerbating global warming.

At GreatHearts, our students» fresh thoughts and voices are brought into dialogue with forefathers and foremothers who wrestled with the same enduring human questions that face us today.

This spring, many Facing History and Ourselves students and teachers are finishing their study of Holocaust and Human Behavior by exploring the essential question: How does learning about the history of the Holocaust educate me about my responsibilities today?

BOSTON, Massachusetts (June 1, 2016)-- The nonprofit organizations Facing History and Ourselves and Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF) announced today a multi-year partnership that will integrate JPEF's educational materials into Facing History's Holocaust and Human Behavior educator resources and professional development.

The nonprofit organizations Facing History and Ourselves and Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF) announced today a multi-year partnership that will integrate JPEF's educational materials into Facing History's Holocaust and Human Behavior educator resources and professional development.

Following Facing History's unique methodology, Holocaust and Human Behavior uses readings, primary source material, and short documentary films to examine the challenging history of the Holocaust and prompt reflection on our world today.

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

This is perhaps the most prescient, overarching question in the wellness and preventive medicine fields facing both human and veterinary health professionals today.

Obesity is the most serious medical problem facing dogs in the U.S. today (as with humans).

That's why I feel it my duty to point you in the direction of a new favorite comic when I find one, and today I have to tell you about The GaMERCaT, a webcomic created by Samantha Whitten about a game - playing cat and the challenges he faces trying to pursue his hobby in a human world.

Co-curated by musician and painter Scott Avett, lead singer of the folk - rock band The Avett Brothers, and David Kratz, president of the New York Academy of Art, ABOUT FACE, which will feature sculpture, paintings, and photographs, brings celebrated artists, many from the East End, together with emerging artists to examine the diverse ways human beings are presented in portraiture today.

If you go into one of the larger, more popular exhibitions in a museum today you are faced with masses of humans reading wall texts or listening to tape recorded comments about the individual paintings.

«Connections between people resonate throughout the exhibition, which poses critical questions on human rights, free expression, and the challenges facing refugees everywhere today.

Following on from the 2014 Extinction Marathon which presented environmental and human crises facing the world today (co-curated with Gustav Metzger) and the 2015 Transformation Marathon, which proposed ways of identifying and effecting change in the face of increasing complexity, the 2016 Miracle Marathon focused in on ritual, repetition and magical thinking to consider ways in which the imaginary can not only predict, but also play a part in affecting long - term futures.

Indian artist Girjesh Kumar Singh's Laaga Chunari mein daag (Look at you) assembles a compendium of human faces sculpted out of broken bricks from destroyed buildings, incorporating an elegy to the impermanence of the idea of home and an inevitable metaphor for the tragedy of today's mass migration.

Wildlife faces numerous threats today, most resulting from human impacts.

The challenge they face is accentuated by the latest report out today from the «Six Americas» survey tracking Americans» views of human - driven climate change.

To me, climate change is the biggest threat facing our planet today, connecting issues of national security, human health, economic development, and environmental justice.

In the first presidential debate, though the moderator disappointingly failed to ask a question about was is arguably the single most critical issue facing human civilization today — human - caused climate change — the Democratic nominee for President, Hillary Clinton, forced the issue herself by calling out Donald Trump for his denial of climate change, noting that he, for example, in a past tweet dismissed climate change as a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese (indeed Trump has posted at least a half - dozen climate change - denying tweets over the past few years).

While the 2003 heat wave was unusual in today's climate, 23 Europe is highly likely to face even hotter summers more often in coming decades.24 Scientists estimate that human activities have already at least doubled the risk of an extreme heat wave.25

care about themselves, others, OR their environment either — face it, most humans on this planet aren't worth the chemicals making up their protoplasm, as my train ride today alongside the Great Unwashed as described above will attest.

The Democrats are of the mind that human - caused climate change is one of the major problems facing the country / world today, describing it as «an urgent threat and a defining challenge of our time.»

While past policies faced their own political and social resistance when originally proposed, most policymakers today retrospectively support the ideologies of past policies implemented to provide electricity for all U.S. citizens, decrease dependency on foreign energy resources, and protect human health and welfare and the environment.

In our new study, published today in Nature Climate Change, we discuss how the scientific community is making progress towards detecting human - induced change in regional rainfall, even in the face of such challenges.