Sentences with phrase «modern human history»

Despite being the go - to, and truly only option for most of modern human history, cloth diaper use has fallen out of fashion in recent years.

Sir William Herschel formally discovered the planet on March 13, 1781; the other planets (from Mercury out to Saturn) have been known since ancient times, and Uranus» discovery expanded the boundaries of the solar system for the first time in modern human history.

Cycles that have been largely unwavering during modern human history are disrupted by substantial changes in temperature and precipitation.William B Gail, in New York Times, 19 Apr 2016

The cause of the similarities isn't entirely understood, but the study pointed out, «Dogs were domesticated early in modern human history and frequently shared food resources with humans.»

Such is the harrowing testimony of one of the closest eyewitnesses to what scientists call the Tunguska event, the largest impact of a cosmic body to occur on the earth during modern human history.

In his recent statements and the new one, he warns that the tens of billions of tons of resulting emissions of carbon dioxide, if not captured and stored, will disrupt climate patterns, ecosystems and sea levels that have been remarkably stable through most of modern human history.

Cycles that have been largely unwavering during modern human history are disrupted by substantial changes in temperature and precipitation.

Writing in Science in 1975, geochemist Wallace Broecker warned that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels would result in a world climate unprecedented in modern human history.

The contemporary global warming context dwarfs Madoff's $ 50 billion scam; it is the greatest fraud in modern human history.