Sentences with phrase «much human land»

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That, he said Tuesday, is much of the reason he founded SpaceX: After humans successfully landed on the moon in the late 60s and early 70s, progress stalled out.

At the same time, we would like to see not merely the preservation of existing wilderness, but changes in human habitat and land use that would allow us to share the land much more generously with other species.

To Ken Margo: I am totally agree with you about this evil thing going around the earth... this evil minded people is there everywhere regardless of faith... that was not what i was trying to say... my point was to be able to recognize the One True God who is Unseen and who has no partners as He is not in need of any partners but we the creation is in need of Him... thats all... I wish I could do something to stop all these taking place around the earth... I think we human fear the fed laws more than we fear the laws of our Creator, for example not to associate any partner with Him, taking the life of others, drug dealing, human trafficking, believing in hereafter and so on... I remember a story that I was talking with one of my friends... I was telling him look we all obey the law of the land so much like for example when we drive and no one moves even an inch when there is a school bus stop to pick / drop kids as it is a fed laws but when it comes to the laws of our Creator, we don't care... like having physical relationship outside of marriage and many more... then he said something nice... he said that its because we see the consequence of breaking the law of the land but we do not see the punishment of hereafter even though it is mentioned very details in Quran, it even gives pictures of hereafter....

It carries on mission work in most of the countries of the world, has hospitals, colleges, and other schools in many lands, and has done much for the amelioration of human suffering as well as for the propagation of its faith.

John Paul II took Catholic social doctrine in a new direction by teaching that, in the post-industrial world of the twenty - first century, Adam Smith's «wealth of nations» resides, not so much in stuff (as in natural resources or land) as in human creativity: in ideas, skills, work - habits and entrepreneurial instincts.

Miyoko tells readers, «you probably recycle, shop at farmer's markets, buy local as much as you can...» She goes on to offer some staggering stats about animals raised for human consumption that I'm not sure a lot of non-vegans have considered -LCB- at least not most of the ones I have spoken to -RCB-- some research has shown vegans use approximately 90 percent less water, energy, resources and land to raise their food than do omnivores.

With millions of pounds of 1080 - treated baits on Western lands, one ponders the issue of how much of this poison is absorbed by grazing livestock from contaminated grasses, and subsequently transferred to human stomachs in a leg of lamb or roast of beef.»

Instead, he believes demographic growth will fill the empty swathes of African land and these additional bodies will provide much needed human capital for the generations of development to come.

Human impacts on land may be much greater than is obvious at first sight.

Before the arrival of Europeans, the Amazon may have been a much different landscape, with millions of human inhabitants managing the land.

A new study by researchers from Brown and Tufts universities suggests that researchers have been overlooking how two key human responses to climate — how much land people choose to farm, and the number of crops they plant — will impact food production in the future.

«We tend to measure the impact of human activity based on the area it affects on a map, but mountaintop mining is penetrating much more deeply into the earth than other land use in the region like forestry, agriculture or urbanization,» said Emily Bernhardt, a professor of biology at Duke and co-author on the study.

Whereas forest fires contribute to the problem — the effect noticeably worsens in years with widespread boreal wildfires — roughly 80 percent of polar soot can be traced to human burning, adding as much as 0.054 watt of energy per square meter of Arctic land, according to the research published this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

Human activities and land use changes that result in permanent deforestation have a much greater impact than temporary deforestation from natural disturbances, such as a fire.

Dogs can distinguish the scat of 18 different species, detect samples from great distances on land and sea, and search much faster and more thoroughly than humans.

In my clinical and technical investigations of the activators for inducing mineral metabolism, I have continually found evidence indicating that cod liver oil contains products that are very seriously toxic to humans and other land animals and can do much harm when given in large doses, even only as large as frequently advocated.»

The Wrap says its received this tipoff from «numerous individuals familiar with the project,» and Jordan's chances of landing the Human Torch role depend partly on how much chemistry he has with other actors in consideration.

And too much «keyword stuffing» — focusing on machines, not humans — can hurt conversion once actual readers land on the page.

humans have landed on an asteroid to mine valuable minerals from it, however as they burrow into the ground, the sentient rock produces its own auto - immune response, much in the same way that the human body produces white - blood cells in response to an infection.

Wilson echoes a common theme in politics and photography, much as when Misrach encountered lunch tables on salt flats: disturbance of the land colors American, environmental, or human history — and a contested history at that.

Much of her work points to the relationships between physical environments and human struggles for power and control that play out on the land.

Almost all of the destruction of the animal populations — has happened basically since the Industrial Revolution — the gigantic explosion of human population, the conversion of so much land to farming and mining.

After all, the air, land and seas are being relentlessly polluted with human waste products; fresh water, fish stocks, food reserves, fossil fuels, and wetlands are being depleted at an alarming rate; the catastrophic effects of massive over-consumption and unrestrained hoarding of resources can not be sustained much longer by our small, finite, fragile planetary home.

Also it is not only re-purposing land currently producing grain but not sequestering carbon, it is also re-purposing land that isn't producing much if any at all, because human abuse has deteriorated it beyond its limits to recover naturally in any reasonable period of time.

Much research has been conducted to show that you can conserve services for humans (water, arable land, flood control, etc.), which help reduce poverty, and conserve biodiversity.

Afterall, the air, land and seas are being relentlessly polluted with human waste products; fresh water, fish stocks, food reserves, fossil fuels, and wetlands are being depleted at an alarming rate; the catastrophic effects of massive over-consumption and unrestrained hoarding of resources can not be sustained much longer by our small, finite, fragile planetary home.

How much of the human influenced warming is due to CO2, how much to carbon black, how much to land - use changes, how much to cow farts, etc..

Now, as I understand it, we have infilling, as much as 40 %, in some areas from thermometers over the land surface which have remained in place for extended periods of time with cities gradually engulfing some of them and which are read by humans.

It is interesting to note that up to 65 million years ago, land life was dominated by ectotherms and endotherms, ie, creatures much less vulnerable to heat stress than is the case for humans.

MattyB; we DO N'T know the human emissions; we don't know how much is coming from land clearing; I've seen no studies which compare the CO2 uptake of new crops compared to established forest, or anything conclusive about cyanobacteria which are potentially one of the biggest and most living fluctuating sinks and which extent seems to be correlated with ACO2 emissions; and as Louis Hissinck noted, perhaps the biggest sink, ocean / mantle recycling is not considered in any discussion on CO2 / ACO2 flux.

REDD is a complicated and contentious issue, but this much is clear: any approach to reducing deforestation must be based in human rights, the rights of Indigenous Peoples, land tenure reform, and territorial sovereignty.

New global land use datasets are being developed that indicate that human use of land may have been far more extensive at much earlier times - most of the terrestrial biosphere may have been transformed by humans long before the 20th century - maybe even by 3000 years ago!

(maybe most of you are too cool to remember that sort of moment... but think of something equally bad like the time you accidentally set something on fire and it started getting out of control...) I think it will be worse than that... Seems like to me we need to be much, much, more certain before we go making policy all over the earth that could actually harm us... or maybe not quite so bad, but really not desirable, harm many developing countries and distract them from addressing real environmental land use and energy production problems that would actually help the environment and save human lives now, today... but keep an eye on the future... not suggesting head in the sand stuff... just let's stop the panic... if you have to panic it's probly too late... most people don't behave terribly rationally while panicing...

They studied conservation values like wilderness protection and restoration processes as well as a number of variables, including how much human modification the land has experienced, how important the land is as a natural linkage between protected areas, how well the land's ecosystems are represented within existing protected areas, and whether a place is rich in rare and endemic species.

If you don't care to believe what the fossil fuel and nuclear industries are doing to our land, air, water, human health, AND how much they're stealing in subsidies from taxpayers like me and (presumably) you every year, then you've lost the ability to think for yourself.

This is much harder to measure than in undisturbed forests — these are trees in diverse small to large patches in abandoned agricultural lands intermingled with human settlements and are surely growing differently than trees in undisturbed forests or in the experimental planted and regrowing forests where carbon sink strength has been measured using precise methods.

He figured that since humans are mostly made of water, all we have to do to fix the loss of land - based ice is to offset it with a much larger human population.

With more than 50 percent of its land covered in some kind of forest, and as much as 30 percent officially cordoned off in the form of parks, reserves, and other protected areas, the «Green Republic» features abundant forest conservation in tandem with «sustainable development,» its high score on the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index matched only by its spot at the top of Yale's Environmental Performance Index.

Whereas forest fires contribute to the problem — the effect noticeably worsens in years with widespread boreal wildfires — roughly 80 percent of polar soot can be traced to human burning, adding as much as 0.054 watt of energy per square meter of Arctic land, according to the research published this week in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

That's when she realized the power of community, when people from all walks of life with varying skillsets and backgrounds come together with the common goal of protecting the Earth for future generations, and how it does so much more than protect the actual land — it makes us feel human again.

And I think you hit the nail on the head with: «5) Once we scientifically - oriented Skeptics accept the reality of the Atmospheric «greenhouse effect» we are, IMHO, better positioned to question the much larger issues which are: a) HOW MUCH does CO2 contribute to that effect, b) HOW MUCH does human burning of fossil fuels and land use changes that reduce albedo affect warming, and, perhaps most important, c) Does the resultant enhanced CO2 level and higher mean temperature actually have a net benefit for humankind?&ramuch larger issues which are: a) HOW MUCH does CO2 contribute to that effect, b) HOW MUCH does human burning of fossil fuels and land use changes that reduce albedo affect warming, and, perhaps most important, c) Does the resultant enhanced CO2 level and higher mean temperature actually have a net benefit for humankind?&raMUCH does CO2 contribute to that effect, b) HOW MUCH does human burning of fossil fuels and land use changes that reduce albedo affect warming, and, perhaps most important, c) Does the resultant enhanced CO2 level and higher mean temperature actually have a net benefit for humankind?&raMUCH does human burning of fossil fuels and land use changes that reduce albedo affect warming, and, perhaps most important, c) Does the resultant enhanced CO2 level and higher mean temperature actually have a net benefit for humankind?»

Indeed, rainfall data reveal significant increases of heavy precipitation over much of Northern Hemisphere land and in the tropics (27) and attribution studies link this intensification of rainfall and floods to human - made global warming (28 ⇓ — 30).

In fact, early human populations with much less advanced technologies had far larger individual land footprints than societies have today.

In fact, because hunting and photography have to be separated physically, and because hunting is by definition requiring of much lower human densities (lest hunters accidentally shoot each other) a reasonable argument can be made that setting aside hunting - only preserves amidst the tourist - oriented lands will help keep photo - safaris and their attendant high impact infrastructures in check.

I am a voracious consumer of news and much of my news - reading time over the last few months has been spent focused on the situation in Zimbabwe, the land of my birth, where the rule of law and respect for human rights has all but disappeared.

Without giving too much away, it's an unforgettable memoir of human endurance following a climbing accident: By the time he reached the flat land, hapless mountaineer Joe Simpson was so dehydrated, malnourished and hypothermic that he began hallucinating.