Sentences with phrase «many other human activities»

Change in worship, as in any other human activity, is inevitable.

... No other human activity or experience is mentioned as often» (Must There be Scapegoats?

Yet a warning should be voiced against too unguarded an application of terms and viewpoints derived from the sociological study of other human activities.

Like any other human activity, art is not an absolute end in itself, but is ordered to and ennobled by the ultimate end of man.»

Because of commercial mining, chemical fertilizers and other human activities that lead to increased pollution, arsenic levels around the world have increased.

«Researchers and managers should consider comprehensively the divergent needs and behavioral responses of those protected animals to livestock and other human activities.

Next, although science may come closer to universality than any other human activity, there are distinct local variations, as scientists adapt to local constraints and approach science with ways of thinking that are influenced by local culture, and these different ways of doing science can teach us things.

After collecting 27,000 hours of recordings, the team analysed how dynamite blasts and other human activity, such as driving and setting up equipment, affected the number of elephant calls.

After collecting 27,000 hours of recordings, the team analysed how dynamite blasts and other human activity, such as driving and setting up equipment, affected the number...

Forests are affected by other human activities such as farming or logging, and many are in a stage of ecological succession with lower biomass compared to mature forests.

«In the coming decades both modern day climate change and other human activities will have a profound impact on our ecosystem.

Emissions from vehicles, power plants, industrial operations, and other human activities are a primary cause of surface ozone, which is one of six main pollutants regulated in the U.S. by the Clean Air Act.

Back in the early 1950s, when I was a graduate student at Harvard, the general assumption was that language, like all other human activities, is just a collection of learned behaviors developed through the same methods used to train animals — by reinforcement.

Yet, despite this decline, Arctic temperatures have soared and the most likely culprit is the build - up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere from fossil fuel burning, forest clearing and other human activity, Kaufmann and his colleagues wrote.

«Many of these species are endangered and we have no tracking data, but we can extrapolate from other species to understand how they are likely to interact with fisheries, shipping, or other human activities,» Costa said.

Billions of birds fall victim to domestic cats every year — but other human activities are also to blame.

To make matters worse, intact habitat has been shrinking as farming and other human activities have fragmented forests and other natural areas.

Many of the major migrations on Earth, especially on land, have already been lost, he explains, and few landscapes are left on Earth where the migratory animals do not have to share land resources with agriculture and other human activities.

«Larger - bodied species often need larger territories and are fewer in number than smaller - bodied species,» he explained, so they would have been more susceptible to extinction as hunting, logging, farming and other human activities took their toll.

A survey has found that fishing, pollution and other human activities along the Yangtze River in China are driving a freshwater mammal, the Yangtze finless porpoise, to the brink of extinction

What's more, many other human activities, from building cities to planting crops, alter albedo, and these activities have a much greater impact because they affect a far greater proportion of Earth's surface.

Of course, modern global warming stems from a clear cause — rising levels of CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) from fossil fuel burning, cutting down forests and other human activities.

For starters, scientists know why CO2 levels are now increasing — burning of fossil fuels and other human activities (SN: 5/30/15, p. 15).

Continuous data streaming back to Canada's University of Victoria will enable rapid responses in the choices we make about Arctic shipping and other human activities in the far north.

Other human activities related to unconventional extraction contribute to induced earthquakes as well, Wilson noted.

Their presence, however, has left some researchers wondering if humans are to blame — specifically, have poor environmental conditions fueled by agricultural runoff and other human activities made dolphins unable to weather the diseases?

The above notwithstanding, the world of SF and the world of «real» science do overlap to a considerable degree — more than either of them do with any other human activity, I believe.

Additional habitat management strategies that account for their presence in forests affected by logging and other human activity are needed to ensure the species» survival.

Plants produce VOCs when they decay, but a major source comes from automobile exhaust, coal burning, and other human activities.

Numerous studies have shown that fishing bycatch kills an alarming number of sea turtles each year, and the threats posed by many other human activities are well documented.

There is hope, however, as CO2 from burning fossil fuels and other human activities appears to have leveled off in 2015 at roughly 40 billion metric tons of CO2 liberated into the atmosphere.

«That makes it difficult to separate shark behavioral changes due to scuba diving from behavioral changes caused by other human activities like fishing.»

Even without human - caused climate change, wildfires would have increased in many regions due to other human activities and natural factors.

Scientists around the world conducting research into what actually exists in ocean depths, as well as: the impacts of fishing and other human activities on these deep unknown spaces and species; and what types of improved management options may help to conserve these natural assets (and their contribution to planetary and human wellbeing) for the long term.

«These species can spread across protected areas without the help of land use changes or other human activities, suggesting that traditional conservation approaches on the ground aren't enough for the long - term survival of Hawaii's rain forests.»

Global climate models are the scientific community's best tools for understanding the detailed dynamics of the global climate system and the way those dynamics change in response to greenhouse gas emissions and other human activities.

In one piece, Orr writes that, «pipelines are much safer than many other human activities, including «safe sex»».

Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By the Sea (six nominations) is another film by a real movie artist: a study of grief and the ways in which it is denied and displaced into other human activities which in turn have their effects on other people.

Boats plied the waters, but most other human activity was hidden under a thick layer of rainforest vegetation.

Professor Susan Hallam, Institute of Education, has said: «Making music utilises a great many skills and elicits a wide range of responses, more perhaps than any other human activity.

Most breeders do a good job, but like all other human activities, dog breeding includes some bad actors and black sheep.

The main threats to all species on our planet are habitat destruction, climate change, pollution, and other human activities.

Immunizations not only did not prevent any infectious diseases, they caused more suffering and more deaths than has any other human activity n the entire history of medical intervention.

And it's quite clear that regions already heavily affected by other human activities (coastal pollution, overfishing, etc.) are — no surprise — likely to feel more stress from acidification.

While it's clear, from the Arctic to the tropics, that human - driven warming and other human activities can, and will, have substantial ecological impacts, projecting outright extinction remains one of the trickier enterprises in biology.

Or the evidence tying that increase to fossil fuel use, production of cement and other human activities?

Mankind it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any other human activity.

«The primary cause of both trends is emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from industry, transport and other human activities.

LONDON, 6 February, 2018 — The Earth's protective ozone layer is not recovering uniformly from the damage caused to it by industry and other human activities.

Combining that with theoretical knowledge on ocean chemistry and on known sources of carbon from burning fossil fuels and other human activities is enough to give a clear picture on main trends.