Sentences with phrase «mounting human pressures»
The Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network reports that 24 percent of the remaining reefs are at risk of imminent collapse, with another 26 percent facing significant loss in the next few decades, due to mounting human pressures.
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ESCR scientists are mounting a furious political assault against the lawsuit, currently back in Royce Lamberth's court urging that human embryonic stem cell research continue to be funded by the Feds, hoping to pressure the judge to see it their way.
We must assume that under the rapidly mounting pressures forcing them upon one another the human molecules will ultimately succeed in finding their way through the critical barrier of mutual repulsion to enter the inner zone of attraction (This is an old idea which I advanced nearly twenty years ago in an unpublished essay entitled, The Spirit of Earth.)
The jury may be out still on whether trace amounts of the popular herbicide glyphosate pose health risks to humans, but industry insiders predict mounting consumer fear about the possibility will pressure more food and beverage manufacturers in 2018 to...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a growing threat to both human and animal health and there has been mounting pressure on the livestock industry to reduce antibiotic use to tackle resistance.
The veteran broadcaster said the planet is under «mounting pressure» from an «explosion in human numbers».
Speaking on behalf of the Optimum Population Trust (OPT), a campaign group that lobbies for tougher immigration laws and sterilisation, Sir David said: «I've seen wildlife under mounting pressure and it's not just from human economy or technology but behind every threat is the frightening explosion in human numbers.