Sentences with phrase «near extinction in»

With the help of their trusty Astro Worker, players terraform planets, decimate local fauna and drive native animal life to near extinction in their quest for the perfect soup.

We hope this will lead to a continued building of their numbers in Washington waters as they recover from persecution and near extinction in the previous century.

The endemic island fox is California's smallest natural canine and has rebounded from its near extinction in the late 1990s.

Likewise, bringing environmental concerns, habitat destruction and breeding programmes in the face of near extinction in the wild have brought the reality of the world that we live in to life in unprecedented ways at ZSL London Zoo.

Wolves were hunted, trapped and poisoned to near extinction in the Lower 48 states before coming under Endangered Species Act protections in the 1970s.

Like the ancient and resilient insect that, it is said, will inherit a nuclear devastated earth, the Alberta Liberal Party has survived all manner of ignominy and near extinction in its century and a...

Also in 2014 a widely publicized study out of Peru and Brazil found the paiche was extinct in 19 percent of the 80 - plus communities surveyed and nearing extinction in 57 percent.

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If you thought paper money was near extinction, Brink's, the largest cash management company in the world, proves you wrong, Jim Cramer said.

The threat is Panama disease, the exact same soil - borne fungus that drove the original favorite banana, the Gros Michel, to near - extinction in the 1960s.

Carl Braaten is still a member of the ELCA, though he thinks it a church in which the actual Lutheran tradition «is now marginalized to the point of near extinction.»

Hopefully, in the near future, demographics shall force the Republicans to the left, or force them into extinction.

If in our time we have seen a great people brought near to the point of extinction, we are also witnessing in Israel what can genuinely be called a resurrection of an ancient people.

In many ways the rise of the new state of Israel is the modern counterpart of the use of the idiom of resurrection to express in metaphorical form the hope of an historical renewal after the national life has been near to the point of extinctioIn many ways the rise of the new state of Israel is the modern counterpart of the use of the idiom of resurrection to express in metaphorical form the hope of an historical renewal after the national life has been near to the point of extinctioin metaphorical form the hope of an historical renewal after the national life has been near to the point of extinction.

actually many pagans survived and went underground and also in places where the reaches of the catholic church did not get For example a whole other half Europe two whole continents on the other side of the ocean etc Paganism was driven into near extinction by it's brother religion that came from the same roots but it was not at all eradicated The irony find is Christians were persecuted by the Roman empire before the rule of Constantine and then during the burning times persecuted witches and pagans (aswell as non-pagans for corrupted reasons) An oximoron and hypocritical religion

What he opposes most stridently in this book is not religious doubt itself or attempts to understand religion as a human construct or a biological phenomenon, but rather what he sees as a very artificial and incomplete view of human nature and its purpose: the very presumption that religion can be explained away as unnecessary and that such materialistic perspectives could be definitive or anywhere near ultimately satisfactory for beings who are obviously designed to crave so much more than mere birth, death, and extinction.

you are correct but it was our country that did what was needed in order to bring them back from near extinction was it not?

The bison population in North America will never again reach pre-European levels, but the population has recovered from its near - extinction level of the 1890s.

Team Bartlett then found themselves nearing extinction for the first time since their incredible 8 - run comeback in last season's Final4 Softball game, dug deep and dominated Game 2 by the score of 21 - 9.

David Miliband's victory speech that never was to the Labour Party conference last September, leaked to the Guardian, reveals all too clearly the disastrous path down which he would have taken the party to near - extinction, by adopting the Osborne cut - and - slash strategy in full, and indeed perhaps going even further.

The study tracked the near - complete extinction of native small mammals on forest islands created by a large hydroelectric reservoir, built in 1986.

A few amphibian species in Panama are recovering from near - extinction, after apparently evolving resistance to the deadly chytrid fungus

The Florida panther, namesake of an ice hockey team in Miami, was designated the state's official animal in 1982, and is clawing its way back from near extinction.

Two University of Michigan researchers and a Florida colleague found two abrupt warming spikes in ocean temperatures that coincide with two previously documented extinction pulses near the end of the Cretaceous Period.

Grizzly bears were classified in 1975 as threatened in the continental United States after nearing extinction from hunting, trapping and poisoning.

A pair of nesting bald eagles have been found on San Clemente Island off the Southern California coast, the National Park Service said, marking the latest step in their comeback from near extinction

Rhinoceros numbers are dwindling extremely fast, especially the last two decades, resulting in near extinction for some species and the total extinction of the western black rhinoceros.

In most species the population grows for three years, then crashes to near - extinction in the fourtIn most species the population grows for three years, then crashes to near - extinction in the fourtin the fourth.

Says Hákon Jónsson, PhD - student at the Centre for GeoGenetics, co-leading author of the study: «The recent near extinction of the Przewalski's horse population resulted in the persistence of deleterious mutations in the population, following the same mechanism that once led to the accumulation of deleterious mutations in the genomes of domesticated horses.

This poster by Peter Hodgson highlights the crux of BirdLife International's Albatross campaign — populations are nearing extinction because of deaths caused when the birds accidentally eat fishing hooks left in bait or discarded after fishing trips.

These indirect effects are far more likely to cause extinctions, especially in the near term.

The authors of the new study found that 85 percent of world's 4,118 threatened mammals, birds, and amphibian species are not adequately protected in existing national parks, and are therefore vulnerable to extinction in the near term.

A single asteroid impact near the Yucatan remains the best explanation for the massive Cretaceous - Paleogene extinction, scientists conclude in a new, deep review

The story of the black - footed ferret's near extinction and its discovery, rescue and reintroduction — all in less than 15 years — is an exciting one.

Kerosene refined from such petroleum helped displace the whale oil that lit lamps in the 19th century and led to the near extinction of many whale species.

Just like this California condor, which — though teetering on the edge of extinction — still soars near the Grand Canyon in Arizona and in the state it was named after.

The loggerhead sea turtle is listed as threatened (likely to become endangered, in danger of extinction, within the foreseeable future) under the U.S. Federal Endangered Species Act and internationally it is listed as endangered (facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild in the near future) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

Throughout the Milky Way Galaxy (and even near the Sun itself), astronomers have discovered stars that are well evolved or even approaching extinction, or both, as well as occasional stars that must be very young or still in the process of formation.

The apparent extinction of this group of pachycormids at or near the end of the Cretaceous is also intriguing, because it occurs shortly before the earliest records of large - bodied, ram filter - feeding chondrichthyans (rhincodontids, cetorhinids, mobulids) in the earliest Paleogene (Shimada, 2007).

Psihoyos dives further into the water in his latest film Racing Extinction, this time focusing on whales, manta rays, and other animals that are nearing eExtinction, this time focusing on whales, manta rays, and other animals that are nearing extinctionextinction.

Of the 175 estimated indigenous languages that are still spoken in the United States, about 155 of them, or 89 percent, are near extinction, estimates James Crawford, author of Bilingual Education: History, Politics, Theory, and Practice (Bilingual Educational Services, 1999).

But it faces near - extinction in Massachusetts in the wake of last week's elections.

The previous extinction occurred about 65 million years ago and it is said that there is the possibility of another extinction in the near future [ii].

Once a thriving segment, the midsize pickup truck dwindled in popularity over the last couple of decades, until finally it hovered near extinction.

And after shrinking almost to extinction, the smaller midsize segment is making a comeback, with the Ford Ranger returning on the heels of the return of the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon joining the Nissan Frontier, Toyota Tacoma and crossover - based Honda Ridgeline, which will add a hybrid option in the near future.

Public libraries have been teetering on the brink of extinction for years, a fact that doesn't seem likely to improve in the near future given the economic situations that lead local governments to take aim at the libraries as a primary target.

The bestselling author of The Small Backs of Children offers a vision of our near - extinction and a heroine - a reimagined Joan of Arc - poised to save a world ravaged by war, violence, and greed, and forever change history, in this provocative new novel.

A gripping narrative of the infamous hunt which drove the buffalo population to near extinction — the story of a moment in our history in which mass destruction of an animal population was seen as the only route to economic solvency.

The resulting collapse / convergence in global interest rates & spreads, the implacable compression & decline in volatility / momentum, the restriction / regulation of banks» proprietary risk, numerous FX scandals, the replacement of human traders by algo - trading, the near extinction of FX & macro funds, all served to disrupt and suppress currency for return & dynamic hedging strategies.

In the book, Craig often refers to people who have done a great service for their breed by, say, bringing it back from near - extinction or promoting working abilities.

With Alaska no longer the profitable endeavor, the foreign invaders left, leaving the bowhead whale, the walrus, and the caribou in a state of near extinction.