Sentences with phrase «near extinction of»

She is presently completing a book defending the idea of a new international criminal offence of «postericide» (committed by conduct fit to bring about the near extinction of humanity), and she is also writing an introductory book on climate justice.

Ahh the Toba lake super eruption, which caused a super cooling and a near extinction of mankind.

Although many whaling captains would not risk losing their ships to the treacherous sand bar shoals and narrow shallow water passage into the lagoon, enough bold whaling captains did and the beginning of the near extinction of the Pacific gray whale.

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.

Human - caused mortality caused the near extinction of Mexican wolves and remains the primary reason they are still critically endangered today.

It is possible that this volcanic eruption might have indirectly caused the near extinction of humans.

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.

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.

«The near extinction of sea otters is one of the most dramatic examples of human - induced impacts to the structure and functioning of temperate nearshore marine ecosystems,» said Rebecca G. Martone, of the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University.

Not exact matches

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...

The bulls (if we may speak for the handful of them still holding their day jobs) are seemingly near extinction.

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.»

They have concluded that if the affirmation of chosenness by God is the cause of near extinction, Jews must root that affirmation out entirely.

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 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.

Buffalo were killed off to the point of near extinction by non Native Americans whereas the N.A. lived off the populations for food, clothing, shelter, religious purposes with no damage to the herds.

The native population of this hemisphere was driven to near extinction by people convinced their beliefs were the only way.

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.

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

According to Hardesty - Moore, this presents an opportunity for conservation through the implementation of preventive efforts to slow population decline before the species nears extinction.

Whaling drove many populations and species to near extinction, and the end of such hunting should let them recover.

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.

To see if these deaths were linked with the KT extinction, the researchers tested for iridium, the rare metal found throughout the world near the KT boundary, thought by most to be evidence of a cosmic impact.

«This provided a slow trickle of food for organisms living near the ocean floor which enabled them to survive the mass extinction, answering one of the outstanding questions that still remained regarding this period of history.

Hunted to near extinction, the swan is taking advantage of warmer, longer summers to expand its range and numbers

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.

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.

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.

The decline of wetlands is nearing a critical threshold below which the losses could inflict severe and lasting harm on ecosystems — driving numerous migratory bird species to the brink of extinction and jeopardizing nearly 20 % of the world's fisheries, warns a new report from Chinese and U.S scientists.

Genomic signatures of near - extinction and rebirth of the crested ibis and other endangered bird species

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.

The forams are almost gone, and that clear part of the rock represents the near mass extinction of forams and other species.

Professional bioethicists would begin near the end of the debate, when research programmes have, perhaps accidentally, brought penguin populations near to extinction, and the question is whether to open a penguin preservation programme at London Zoo.

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.

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.

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.

The annual compromise has been to provide only just enough money to remain a partner; but that has squeezed domestic fusion programs to the point of near - extinction.

Then, consider that this creature you may have heard of for the first time 30 seconds ago comes from a group of animals not only nearing extinction, but unthinkably ancient and the survivor of several extreme climate change events.

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.

But what about the species responsible for so many of these near - extinctions?

Investigating claims of near - term extinction for humans.

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).

Read on to learn more about the lives of Mexican gray wolves, their tragic history and near - extinction, their role as a top - of - the - food - chain carnivore and their present constricted range.

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, 1999Of 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, 1999of them, or 89 percent, are near extinction, estimates James Crawford, author of Bilingual Education: History, Politics, Theory, and Practice (Bilingual Educational Services, 1999of 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.