Sentences with phrase «lasting impacts on human»

Read on to learn about some of the world's most extraordinary dogs and their lasting impact on human society.

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The representatives from Harford County Climate Action made it clear — human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, has had a clear and measurable impact on the Earth's climate over the last century, and those actions have put low - lying areas of Harford County in danger from rising sea levels.

The United Nations on Tuesday Match 20, 2018, called on Turkey to end its 18 - month - old state of emergency, saying that the routine extension of emergency powers has resulted in «profound» human rights violations against hundreds of thousands of people and may have lasting impact on the country's socio - economic fabric.

Sheng left a tenured position at MIT as a professor and Howard Hughes investigator, moving to Genentech last year in order to have «a more direct impact on human well - being.

«Terrorism and human - caused disasters can have strong impacts on communities because of their uncertain and long - lasting nature, resulting in long - term stress and disruption,» Watson notes.

But evidence presented at a meeting at Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra last month suggests that in the more distant past, the story was different: When humans first landed on isolated islands during the Pleistocene, 10,000 years ago and more, their impact was surprisingly light.

Heat waves lasting for weeks have a devastating impact on human health: the European heat wave of summer 2003 caused over 70,000 excess deaths [133].

Since it was established by CASW in 2000, this prize has sought to honor not a single story but a body of work published by a single journalist that has made a lasting contribution to the public's understanding of critical advances in medical science and their impact on human health.

Essentially, big agra has hybridized wheat heavily over the last 5 decades to improve things such as crop yield and baking characteristics, but never once thought about the impacts on human health of changing the biochemical structure of wheat.

Last week, I spent some time reading through the Global Human Capital Trends 2016 Report by Deloitte, which includes facts based on the responses of 7,000 HR and business leaders from 130 countries worldwide, and went through the High - Impact Talent Management study results by the same firm.

Findings from studies of high quality early childhood education experiences illustrate that such services for our youngest learners, infants and toddlers, have long - lasting and positive impacts on their development, learning abilities, and capacity to regulate their emotions (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; NICHD, 2003).

The devastating impacts of forest and peatland fires on humans last year went beyond our tolerance.

His refined black - and - white photographs document scenes of the American West of the past four decades, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of wilderness and open space.

In an interview at The Times last week, Fox said his focus on human - driven climate change emerged as he grappled, after that small fracking success, with the unrelenting demand for fossil fuels and emerging impacts of warming temperatures, made emblematic by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

The link between global temperature and rate of sea level change provides a brilliant opportunity for cross-validation of these two parameters over the last several millenia (one might add - in the relationship between atmospheric [CO2] and Earth temperature in the period before any significant human impact on [CO2]-RRB-.

When I wrote with James Kanter last year about the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on impacts from global warming, I made sure we noted how the consequences for humans change significantly when adaptation is taken into account (boldface added):

Last year in an earlier post on asteroid impacts, Mr. Schweickart mused on an issue at the heart of Dot Earth — how political systems, reflecting human nature, still seem to be having a hard time integrating scientific understanding, uncertainties and all, in ways that result in policies and investments that could blunt risks while fostering prosperity.

In fact previous climate warming after the last ice age did have significant negative impacts on early human settlements (evidence of periods of significant and rapid regional sea level rise).

The take - home message, directly in sync with the core findings of the last two assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, can be distilled to a fairly straightforward statement: Rising concentrations of carbon dioxide will result in long - lasting warming that will progressively produce more harmful impacts on conditions and systems that influence human wellbeing.

Over the last decades, climate change has emerged as a significant threat, impacting on human health, ecosystems, biodiversity, food and energy security.

Extreme rainfall events and flooding have increased during the last century, and these trends are expected to continue, causing erosion, declining water quality, and negative impacts on transportation, agriculture, human health, and infrastructure.

Although one might think that the human health impacts of global warming would be among the most well studied areas of climate change, it is only in the last decade that the medical community and other health professionals have focused on this issue in depth.

Over the last decade, she has reported on the ecological and human impacts of global warming from some of the most remote areas of the Arctic.

In the last half of the post, WCR moves on to a discussion of the supposed lack of impact of global warming on humans.

Despite limitations and gaps in knowledge, there is sufficient evidence to conclude with high confidence that over the last three decades the warming induced by human activities has had a measurable impact on many physical and biological systems.

There is no doubt humans have left a lasting impact on the environment since the start of the Industrial Revolution.

Over the last few years, ecomodernist thinkers have articulated a vision of a «good Anthropocene,» one where humans use our extraordinary powers to shrink humankind's negative impacts on nature.

we ask whether the impact of human activities on the climate is observable and identifiable in the instrumental records of the last century - and - a-half and in recent paleoclimate records?

Read on: Global Warming, Other Human Impacts Prime Cause of Reef Decline The last part of the that statement comes from a study earlier this year in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

For many years important events in human evolution have been attributed to climate change and as part of a recent study, scientists have been considering the precise impact that climate change has had on human evolution during the last few hundred thousand years.

Eventually, the book concludes that five last items remain on the EU's human rights agenda even after accession: the proper implementation of the accession agreement, a re-evaluation of the ECHR's impact on the EU legal order, the allocation of responsibility in the EU's multilevel governance system, engagement with other international human rights initiatives, and the protection of fundamental rights through positive measures (Bruno de Witte).

The impact of graphic courtroom evidence was made plain last week at the House of Commons standing committee on justice and human rights.

It's Men's Health Month, and yesterday was the last day of Men's Health Week, which means we're going to look at a men's health issue that is usually ignored: the impact of human papillomavirus (HPV) on the male population.

In last year's Social Justice Report I committed to monitoring how the new arrangements for Indigenous affairs impacts on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples «enjoyment of their human rights.