Sentences with phrase «in global ecology»

Our long - term species goal will continue to be fitting humanity in the proper place in a global ecology that sustains and nourishes the planet and humanity.

Through concerted effort, the world's governments exterminated a virus that for millennia had played an important role in global ecology, serving as a check on human numbers.

Professor Barry Brook is an international research leader in global ecology and conservation biology.

This is a guest post by Professor Barry Brook, an international research leader in global ecology and conservation biology.

Dust storms play a vital role in global ecology.

Not exact matches

Reviewers of the book in the New York Times and elsewhere opined that ecology was little more than a commonsensical concern for global housekeeping, and quite innocent of the far - reaching and rather alarming implications about which I warned.

Because our knowledge of the many delicate balances in the ecology of the planet is still in its infancy, and because what is known is not widely understood, the consequences of what the human race is (in its ignorance) doing to the earth may turn out to be even more serious than global warming.

Land developers burn forests in Latin America to feed the cattle that fill the cavernous appetites of fast food chains in the United States — and the entire planet gradually warms, leaving even the experts in doubt about the future of our global ecology.

Her research focuses on global change ecology and climate adaptation; she was among the first to propose and study ways to reduce the impact of climate change through new techniques in conservation management.

Examining the effect of greenhouse gases on local ecology and global climate keeps Katey Walter, 32, chasing the methane that bubbles up from seeps in Arctic lakes.

Ken Caldera A professor at Stanford and staff member in the department of global ecology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Caldeira works at the nexus of climate, the carbon cycle, and energy.

UNLEASHED The genetic tool CRISPR / Cas 9 has opened up gene drive technology to provide potential solutions for a multitude of problems in global health and ecology.

Even if it did uniformly heat Earth's ecosystems, this would not produce a coherent global shift in ecology because local ecosystems respond so differently, often in opposing ways.

Emily's background is in ecology and environmental policy, and prior to joining AAAS, she led engagement and outreach efforts at the U.S. Global Change Research Program.

That certainly was the case for Ann Kinzig, a junior faculty member in urban ecology at Arizona State University (ASU), who spent the 1998 - 99 academic year in Washington, D.C., as a Roger Revelle Fellow in Global Stewardship.

GBBC is great for getting nonexperts interested in birds and the role they play in local and global ecology, MacFarland says.

In just a few millennia, humanity has emerged as a global force of nature — a networked system of billions of individuals creating and sustaining an entirely new global ecology.

«Our lack of knowledge about how synthetic chemicals alter ecological processes represents a critical blindspot in the rapidly developing field of global ecology.»

Carnegie scientists are leaders in plant biology, developmental biology, astronomy, materials science, global ecology, and Earth and planetary science.

It is an American book and inevitably many examples, particularly of intertidal ecology, are from the American Atlantic and Pacific coasts, but in this edition Nybakken includes more material from elsewhere, and many topics, plankton biology and deep sea biology, for example, are global in their scope.

«Through this study, the pandas at the San Diego Zoo have made a significant contribution to our understanding of what may be affecting panda reproduction in habitats in China,» said Ron Swaisgood, director of applied animal ecology, San Diego Zoo Global.

However, the role of local, regional, and global swine - flows in the ecology and evolution of swine influenza viruses remains unclear.

«We're interested in how urban warming affects the ecology of insects and what implications that might have for understanding how global warming might impact insects outside of the city, «said Elsa Youngsteadt, an entomology research associate at NCSU and co-lead author of the study.

Cory Cleveland, a UM professor of terrestrial ecosystem ecology, said that previous research in the wet tropics — where much of global forest productivity occurs — indicates that the increased rainfall that may occur with climate change would cause declines in plant growth.

Through her research, Dr. Gallagher addresses questions about the mechanisms governing how global climate change affects plant - pollinator interactions and the extent to which changes in the levels of pollination influence the ecology and evolution of plant populations.

The findings indicate that coral bleaching is a «modern phenomenon» driven by global warming, says study co-author Prof Nick Graham, a Royal Society university research fellow and chair in marine ecology at Lancaster University.

The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is a global leader in ecology and ecosystem science.

New York About Blog Tapping experts in climate, geology, oceanography, ecology, sustainable development, global health, energy, food and water, State of the Planet captures stories of how the Earth works and how we can sustainably make our lives better.

As capital moves freely, investing in production or in fictitious forms of capitalism, and as speculators, financier capitalists, stock and bond traders, investment bankers, hedge fund mangers, and others help to unleash the forces of capital accumulation globally, and as neo-liberalism with its aggressive pro-market state policies allows this finance capital to restructure itself, to diversify its forms, to expand its accumulation opportunities through the growth of retail, financial and service industries, and enhance its global reach, then it is safe to assume that our ecosystems have been harnessed exploitatively in a system of capitalist commodity production such that we can not talk about capitalism at all without talking about capitalism as a world ecology.

We do not mean to be Apocalyptic, but, in the catalog of wars launched by states and of examples of dysfunctional management of our global ecology, we should also include the social wars that have broken out more or less openly, revealing an almost permanent demonstration of exclusion and of economic and social inequalities in the low - income districts of towns, both large and small, in every continent.

This is challenge that requires deep educational innovations of global willingness that promotes intrinsic reforms from its own ontological nature of the ecology of the intelligence; and become, ultimately, in the genesis of a cognitive democracy: composed by new transcultural and transpolitical symbiosis between the different civilizations that have been formed on the earthly homeland in the last six millenniums.

In the sun - drenched lobby of Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill this summer, the artist Maya Lin explores the environment in three primary sculptural installations that examine the topographies, flood plains and waterways of our changing global ecologIn the sun - drenched lobby of Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill this summer, the artist Maya Lin explores the environment in three primary sculptural installations that examine the topographies, flood plains and waterways of our changing global ecologin Water Mill this summer, the artist Maya Lin explores the environment in three primary sculptural installations that examine the topographies, flood plains and waterways of our changing global ecologin three primary sculptural installations that examine the topographies, flood plains and waterways of our changing global ecology.

Moreover, she is interested in ecology and environmental issues, currently researching artificial light as a phenomenon, through the relationship between writer's block and the global energy crisis.

Such modes of investigation may appear local in context, but are part of the contemporary global discourse surrounding broader notions of identity, gender, place, ecology, and technology, among others.

«Considering these... major and still growing impacts of human activities on Earth and atmosphere, and at all, including global, scales, it seems to us more than appropriate to emphasize the central role of mankind in geology and ecology by proposing to use the term «anthropocene» for the current geological epoch.»

Third, most of our top rank experts and the people in many places, the ones who refer to each other as «the brightest and the best» -LCB- and point to each other as the «smartest guy in the room» -RCB-, appear not to rejected adequate ways of communicating to the family of humanity about what people somehow need to hear, see and understand: the rapacious dissipation of Earth's limited resources, the relentless degradation of the planet's environment, and the approaching destruction of the Earth as a fit place for human habitation by the human species, when taken together, appear to be proceeding at breakneck speed toward the precipitation of a catastrophic ecological wreckage of some sort unless, of course, the world's colossal, ever expanding, artificially designed, manmade global political economy continues to speed headlong toward the monolithic «wall» called «unsustainability» at which point the runaway economy crashes before Earth's ecology is collapsed.

Britain's Royal Society has published a helpful new collection of papers in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B that provide fresh insights on how the global buildup of carbon dioxide released by human activities could affect ocean ecology.

I have yet to find where any of our perfect extremist Republicans and Christians bothered to make any predictions concerning Dolly to prove any expertise in natural cycles, counting with fingers and toes, passing urine tests, use of a calendar, meteorology, climatology, ecology, or a million other loose ends within global warming.

During the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro last month, I posted a reflection by the Pace University philosopher professor Ilan Safit on whether humanity needs a new definition of citizenship, one with ecology and global commons in mind.

We've designed this archive to put human affairs in the larger context of ecology and now seek to connect our project with students and faculty at other schools, the media, and the global community focused on improving environmental and social quality.

as their guiding philosophy, but deep ecology may have reached its greatest popular prominence when Senator Al Gore wrote in his 1989 book «Earth in the Balance» that, «We must change the fundamental values at the heart of our civilization» in order to solve global environmental problems.

«A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high - quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States... De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation... Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.»

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Carnegie investigators are leaders in the fields of plant biology, developmental biology, Earth and planetary sciences, astronomy, and global ecology.

Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»

Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University For researchers like myself examining the effect of local microclimates on the ecology of local wildlife, the change in the global average is an absolutely useless measure.

and apply exactly what ecology science teaches: All species must be in equilibrium in the environment, thus, if the global warmers» species is growing too much in numbers we should put a relative increased number of predators in the environment to level their numbers according to law, otherwise, they could become a menace for the rest of the ecological system.

The situation is indeed clear; we can logically conclude from geology, physics, climate science, ecology, and economics that a few hundred more ppm of CO2 would most likely be net beneficial globally and even for those areas or circumstances in which global warming would not be beneficial it would be considerably more feasible and cost effective to implement local adaptations than attempt global mitigation which comes with no money - back guarantees should the entire (100 %) world not play ball.

But climate science is also aware of the certainty of some of the consequences that the continued increase in global warming will bring with respect to the global environment, ecology, and rising sea level.

However, the small size and great variability in shapes, limnology and microbial ecology of the ponds represent a challenge for scaling up their importance for global C cycling, especially since these ponds are primarily found in remote regions where logistic constraints are great.