Sentences with phrase «long in a human environment»

Humans are capable of contracting hookworms from their pets, though the parasite can not survive very long in a human environment.

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In a non-union environment, employers can dump employees any time, for virtually any reason as long as it doesn't violate human rights laws.

In these Norwegian environments, deepened by the long twilights, human emotions are exaggerated.

The agency in a statement said the cleanup along the river north of Albany is «working as designed» and is «expected to accomplish its long - term goal» of protecting both human health and the environment.

«The question that the five - year review asks is «do we still think the cleanup decision we made in 2002 will provide long - term protection of human health and the environment?»

Those of us working in the field of developmental science are seeing results that suggest the prenatal environment and prenatal conditions have meaningful, long - term effects on human development.

On 16 April, the EPA will release its preliminary risk assessment for atrazine at a technical briefing, a key step in its long process of reviewing the chemical's effects on humans, wildlife, and the environment.

Dr Rumble said: «This is important, because as a completely human - made environment, getting the soil community right in the construction materials could ensure that the roof is sustainable in the long term.»

«The same rate of growth measured for populations dwelling in a range of environments, and practicing a variety of subsistence strategies, suggests that the global climate and / or other biological factors — not adaptability to local environment or subsistence practices — regulated long - term growth of the human population for most of the past 12,000 years.»

But then ISS itself serves as a home to six microbe - filled humans who stay in orbit for as long as 6 months each and routinely shed skin cells when they exercise, comb their hair, eat, and do other activities that potentially can contaminate their isolated «built environment.»

«The paper correctly highlights that other human stressors, not only the climate ones, are very important for long - term sustainability, including the need to reduce inequality», said Carlos Nobre (not a co-author), one of the world's leading Earth System scientists, who recently won the prestigious Volvo Environment Prize in Sustainability for his role in understanding and protecting the Amazon.

If there had been a centralized database tracking pathogen profiles in animals, food and the environment — information that already exists at some level within disparate agricultural, food and drug, and human health agencies — it wouldn't have taken so long to isolate the cause of the outbreak, says Fisman.

Organochlorine insecticides are persistent environmental pollutants that break down slowly in the environment and, once in the human body, stick around for a long time due to their affinity for fat tissue.

Exposure to pesticides and fungicides have been proven to cause negative short - term or long - term effects on the environment and the health of animals and humans, especially in the reproductive, endocrine and central nervous systems.

Since, so many of those «primitive people» have lived in isolated environments from «civilized» humans for so long, they likely have evolved differently (genetic drift).

«If the driver is disengaged, I've seen one study that suggests that it can take as long as 7 seconds for him to become aware of the environment he's operating in,» says Walter Sullivan, a human - machine interface expert at Elektrobit, a Finnish engineering company specializing in wireless and automotive tech.

After recuperating in a sheltered environment, these cats can be re-released into their same, familiar environment as long as they have a source of food and the human population is willing to accept them.

Speechless takes its cue from current discourse on the Anthropocene, described by writer Robert Macfarlane as «the new epoch of geological time in which human activity is considered such a powerful influence on the environment, climate and ecology of the planet that it will leave a long - term signature in the strata record.»

In select works, this tawdry and bent environment, rich with human longing and broken promise, serves as a playground to Bickerton's signature blue man, who reappears as an explosive madman on a white - knuckle tear through the world, gluttonously devouring all that is adrenal or sensual.

They both invoke the long tradition and highlight the opposition and fierceness of nature in human environments.

Human Nature, organized and curated by Kelly Sicat, director of programs at Montalvo, is part of Montalvo's 18 - month long thematic program Natural and Creative Capital, which explores issues of sustainability in our natural and creative environments.

Carver's work explores human relationships in the form of conversations (recorded, mapped, or transcribed), sculpture and its environment (site - specific sculpture, sound installation, person - powered kinetic elements), and performance (as part of longer dialogue of experience).

There is also no doubt that human activity affects the environment and will influence climate in the long run.

To longer follow an obsolete course of continuous, seemingly endless economic expansion will result in further biodiversity loss, even greater degradation of the environment and, perhaps, the irreversible destruction of the planet as a fit place for human habitation.

The United States is a world leader and also can provide insights on the need to let humans reach balance in their lives and with the environment which has limited resource to attend such huge growing demand likely to be unsustainable in a long range.

Surely the reasonable and sensible embrace of a «beautiful, low - consumption lifestyle» for the sake of a better life for a democratic majority of people; for the promotion of global biodiversity; for the protection of the environment; and for the preservation of Earth as a fit place for human habitation, could be one of the most powerfully sustainable and immediately effective behavioral changes the leaders of the family of humanity have made in a very long time.

In the Anthropocene, political analysis can no longer be grounded in an environment that can be taken for granted, a natural world that provides a mere backdrop for human achievement.&raquIn the Anthropocene, political analysis can no longer be grounded in an environment that can be taken for granted, a natural world that provides a mere backdrop for human achievement.&raquin an environment that can be taken for granted, a natural world that provides a mere backdrop for human achievement.»

«Humans have long affected the environment, but recently there has been a rapid global spread of novel materials − including aluminium, concrete and plastics − that are leaving their mark in sediments.

One thing I see lacking in this «longest monopoly game» is discussion of the most well proven, well practiced human strategy in dealing with adverse environments: adaptation and mitigation on a case - by - case basis.

Then, with a wealthy and reducing global population that can afford to take care of the environment, with advances in technology we can only dream of, the world can become a better place with long term sustainability and an end to avoidable human suffering.

The collaboration with the U.S. - based wellness real estate and technology firm was announced at MIPIM in Cannes, France, and underlines the long - term commitment of the firms to transform indoor environments into spaces that help nurture, sustain and promote human health and well - being.

Nature can no longer be viewed as a spectacle to which humans have ringside seats — we need to recognise that the environment is a system worth investing in so as to safeguard a more positive future for all.

Tide - gauge data from Diego Garcia (1988 — 2000, and 2003 — 2011) show no statistically significant long - term rise, whilst the rates of rise obtained from the satellite altimeter record for 1993 — 2011 span the range of 0.16 — 4.56 mm yr − 1 in the surrounding sea areas (70 — 74 ° E and 4 — 9 ° S) and are also consistent with a zero rate except in the far south of the region... this has been a relatively stable physical environment, and that these low - lying coral islands should continue to be able to support human habitation, as they have done for much of the last 200 years.

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.»

«The general use of the pesticide DDT will no longer be legal in the United States after today... the continued massive use of DDT posed unacceptable risks to the environment and potential harm to human health.»

If my guesses (hypothesises) are correct then we are about to go into a very long «Global Cooling» effect that will cause a major issue in our environment and the current ideas and computer models will lead us into a very wrong direction and cause serious damage to both agricultural and human development.

In order to meet the evolutionary challenge of an environment that no longer will accept the byproducts of human activity without destroying our future, we will have to care enough about ourselves and future generations to institute new systems and sets of rules that coordinate nationally and internationally our use of the environment, starting with the concentration of warming gases in the atmospherIn order to meet the evolutionary challenge of an environment that no longer will accept the byproducts of human activity without destroying our future, we will have to care enough about ourselves and future generations to institute new systems and sets of rules that coordinate nationally and internationally our use of the environment, starting with the concentration of warming gases in the atmospherin the atmosphere.

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He cites unscientific rubbish (e.g. papers in Energy & Environment), uses outdated data, makes unsubstantiated and often demonstrably incorrect claims (e.g. about volcanoes producing more C02 than humans), uses various talking points that have been debunked long ago e.g. no warming for 10 years, NASA now claims the 30's were hotter — stuff that should be obviously wrong to anyone with a bit of scientific literacy.

Policy analysis and implementation will be extremely challenging given the nonconvexities in the human - environment system (109) that will be enhanced by tipping elements, as well as the need to handle intergenerational justice and interpersonal equity over long periods and under conditions of uncertainty (110).

How the United Nations or anyone can say the average human being is harming the environment with a straight face while the government is already engaged in wide scale geoengineering projects based on bunk data that have untold detrimental short - and long - term impact around the entire globe on the environment and its flora and fauna — carrying out projects that have never been approved through any democratic process whatsoever and which we are still not officially being told is happening even as it goes on over our heads — is despicable.

If his actions continue in the same direction, during Pruitt's term at the EPA the environment will be threatened instead of protected, and human health endangered instead of preserved, all with no long - term benefit to the economy.

Keeping a device in working order and for longer means a smaller impact on the environment and a dent in the piles of e-waste that pose a serious human health problem.

My reference to 20 years as a bencher was simply to illustrate that I have seen a generational shift in attitudes caused by nothing other than a narrowing of the career - long practice environment of a certain type of bencher (I do not fault them for their human nature)-- similar to the generational shift that I confidently predict will happen to lawyers whose practice environment would feature behemoth, non-lawyer owners.

Jurors often harbor a basic belief that if a big company is on trial, it has probably harmed people or the environment in pursuit of profits and has caused long - term damage to people and the planet — either by directly causing human health effects, polluting the air, water, or ground, or by contributing to global warming.

So long as I use the resources I gain to push humanity forward in a way, or ways, I see as beneficial to the human spirit, mind, and body, without being inconsiderate to nature, and all that makes up our environment.

Having an experience in working on the various department of human relations the post of a HR Generalist would give me the opportunity to put my communication and employee managerial skills to test to work for the benefit of the company in the long run and bring an effective communicating environment in the company.

Parental separation may also expose children to loss of social, economic and human capital.4, 14 Other explanatory factors may derive from characteristics typical of separating parents such as lower relationship satisfaction and higher conflict levels also before the separation.4 The rising numbers of children with JPC have concerned child clinicians as well as researchers on the subject.20, 21 Child experts have worried about children's potential feelings of alienation from living in two separate worlds, 20 — 22 increased exposure to parental conflict12, 22 and other stressors that JPC may impose on a child.22 Such daily stressors may be long distances to school, friends and leisure activities, lack of stability in parenting and home environment and a need to adjust to the demands of two different family lives.12, 22 The logistics of travelling between their homes and keeping in contact with friends has been stated as a drawback of JPC in interview studies with children.23 — 25 Older adolescents, in particular, indicated that they preferred to be in one place.23