Sentences with phrase «new human environment»

For another, the ancient canines had to adapt to their new human environment in more ways than one — for example, their diet changed, which favored different physical traits.

Not exact matches

They are a murky regulatory environment, where states seem to be taking individual initiatives while the industry awaits rulings from the new administration's Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao; concerns about both reliability and cybersecurity in hackable robot cars; and the as yet unknown liability guidelines in the inevitable event of autonomous vehicle crashes and human injuries.

The March 12, 2015 issue of Nature magazine contains an essay — not an original thesis, rather a summation — by two English geographers entitled «Defining the Anthropocene,» the subject of which is whether (and starting when) human activity has so altered the global environment as to constitute a new geologic age: the Anthropocene Age, as successor to the 11,000 - year Holocene Epoch that is itself part of the larger 2.6 million year - old Quaternary Period (or Great Ice Age).

In order to stop a new highway, a dam or canal, or a power plant, litigants must establish not simply that the environment will be damaged, but that the ultimate injury to human welfare will be greater than the proposed benefit of the project.

The dropping of the atomic bomb, however, and the killing of birdlife by DDT, documented by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, introduced a new problem: the presence of totally unpredicted (and probably unpredictable) harmful effects on the environment and on human life stemming from actions taken specifically to produce certain benefits.

Yet the capacity to split genes and atoms, and to effect the environment on a new scale and in grave ways, is only one reason human power — and its relation to divine power — has become a theological preoccupation.

n) With the new capitalism too the State has to defend the common goods such as the natural and human environments, which can not be defended simply by market forces.

But does not this idea of the ultimate development and expression of technological rationality suggest a future in which human beings, as well as the natural environment, will be subject to complete «rational» control in the name of «efficiency,» the future of Brave New World if not of 1984?

And quite apart from humans, nature itself, we believe, has produced new species of plants and animals, new environments, and other important new facts.15 To interpret this use of the word «creativity»» from the standpoint of our metaphysics, we may claim that the production of such novelty» has to do exclusively (with the exception to be discussed below) with characterization.

RESOURCES «New Zealand Grants a River the Rights of Personhood,» Care2.Com [Swiss] Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology, The Dignity of Living Beings with Regard to Plants [PDF] Community Environment Legal Defense Fund Web Site CELDF «Rights of Nature» FAQs Carl Cohen and Tom Regan, chapter by Carl Cohen, «Rights and Interests,» The Animal Rights Debate, (Latham, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2001), p. 17 David S. Oderberg, «The Illusion of Animal Rights,» Human Life Review, Spring - Summer 2000, p. 42.

This entails that we encounter our new spiritual environment in a way that is material and corporeal because that is an inalienable dimension of our human nature.

They may be regarded as precursors of human creativity, and point to the existence of unsuspected potentials in the organism which are dormant in the normal routines of existence but emerge in response to new challenges offered by the environment — a zoological analogy to Toynbee's paradigm of Challenge and Response.

The new factor which is proper to us human beings allows us to transcend the process of material causality: it means that we are not determined by our material environment.

, Divine and Human Agency in Paul and his Cultural Environment (Library of New Testament Studies, 335; London: T&T Clark, 2006).

He called for a new environmental solidarity to deal with ecological issues that transcend national jurisdictions and he insisted that a «right to a safe environment» be included in the Charter of Human Rights.

Before the products from these varieties can be used, they will need approval from the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator, which ensures GM plants are safe for humans and the environment and from Food Standards Australia and New Zealand which regulates food safety.

We help protect our Australia's productive industries, environment and human health from pests and diseases by assessing the risks they pose, prioritising the pathways of entry and providing new technologies for surveillance and early response through sensor networks and autonomous platforms.

According to new research by Innova Market Insights, concerns around products that are «good for me, good for the planet» are increasing, providing opportunities for ingredients that can support sustainability and ethics claims in relation to humans, animals and the environment.

«The rising costs of energy, human - induced environment and land degradation, water scarcity, and extreme weather events all present challenges, some of which have been on the agenda for decades, others of which are new,» said Task Force co-Chair Dan Glickman.

«Scientists discover evidence of early human innovation, pushing back evolutionary timeline: Evidence of innovation dates to a period when humans faced an unpredictable and uncertain environment, according to three new studies.»

A coalition of human rights groups, including Amnesty International, Liberty and Privacy International wrote to the home secretary saying: «We are very concerned that new measures, made in good faith but in a heated political environment, will overextend powers in ways that would be susceptible to abuse, restrict legitimate, free communication and expression and undermine people's privacy.»

But the older sites» current cultural and technological irrelevance hints at the ephemeral nature of internet domination: in an environment as tumultuous as this one and as driven by the fickle human desire for the new and shiny, no hegemony is eternal.

«The announcement of this grant program highlights Governor Cuomo's commitment to foster collaboration and coordination among state agencies, municipalities, not - for - profits and educational institutions to minimize the harm aquatic invasive species cause to New York's environment, economy, natural resources and human health,» Acting Commissioner Seggos said.

Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye has written and published journals on several topics including politics In Ghana 1982 - 1992, culture, conflict and traditional Authority in Africa: a Ghanaian perspective in the Political economy of peace and security in Africa, human rights in Africa in the new global order: a dilemma as well as civil society and the domestic policy environment in Ghana.

These grants are an important step in Governor Cuomo's initiative to preserve New York's vast waterways from the danger aquatic invasive species can cause to the environment, human health and the economy of a region.

«First, a human - factors research model allows for analysis of the current work environment and clear recommendations to the team for the development of new tools for scientific inquiry.

The public widely believes that the marine environment is under threat from human activities, and supports actions to protect the marine environment in their region, according to a new study to be published in the February issue of the journal Ocean and Coastal Management.

Although new synthetic drugs are closely evaluated for high specificity, high efficacy, low toxicity, and good pharmacokinetics, little attention is paid to the possibility that the chemically synthesized drugs may eventually be discharged from the human body into the environment in their original and / or metabolized forms.

The need to foresee the probable consequences of human activities has generated new techniques for monitoring environmental change and for assessing the impact of present and proposed actions upon the natural and social environment.

In a new take on an old polemic, Ridley acts as mediator between biological and cultural determinists, arguing that genes and the environment play equally important roles in shaping human destiny.

Using a new satellite - based method, scientists at NASA, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and two universities have located 39 unreported and major human - made sources of toxic sulfur dioxide emissions.

«While human microbes are natural to humans, enclosed environments over-enriched in human bacteria might facilitate transmission of bacteria or bacterial traits, such as antibiotic resistance, for example MRSA,» said Maria - Gloria Dominquez - Bello, associate professor at New York University School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

In a statement responding to Golden Spike's announcement, a NASA spokesperson said: «This type of private sector effort is further evidence of the timeliness and wisdom of the Obama administration's overall space policy — to create an environment where commercial space companies can build upon NASA's past successes, allowing the agency to focus on the new challenges of sending humans to an asteroid and eventually Mars.»

Apparent competition is an increasing problem, causing endangerment and extinction of native prey as abundant species colonize new areas in the wake of human - caused change to the environment.

«This technology gives us a new tool to examine membrane proteins in their natural environment of the human cell,» said Igor Stagljar, a Professor in the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research.

A new meta - analysis suggests farmers should take a hybrid approach to producing enough food for humans while preserving the environment

He fell for more than 4 minutes before landing safely in the desert of New Mexico, proving that people could survive the hostility of space, and pioneering technology to protect human life in that environment.

«They're moving to a strange new environment where they don't know anyone,» human or otherwise, she says.

Klaatu is back and badder than before, with Gort the robot four times the size of the original and a new message for humans to shape up and save the environment... or else.

«Dogs and humans share a similar social environment,» says Attila Andics, a neuroscientist in a research group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and the lead author of the new study.

«There are certain classes of genes that modern humans inherited from the archaic humans with whom they interbred, which may have helped the modern humans to adapt to the new environments in which they arrived,» says senior author David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

The more bisphenol A men were exposed to — at work or through the environment — the worse off their sperm were, according a new study that finds the link in humans

The coyote is reclaiming a new environment: the human environment.»

A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.

The potential danger to human health and the environment represented by the existing substances is unknown, hence the new policy.

We hope that by using human cells in a physiological environment we can help to direct resources toward the most promising new drug candidates and determine that other new drug candidates will fail, faster.»

The authors then combined the new genomes with thousands of publicly available genomes that represent the major groups of plant - associated bacteria, and included bacteria from multiple plant and non-plant environments, such as the human gut, for comparison.

The Judgement - or J - value, a new method pioneered by Professor Thomas that assesses how much should be spent to protect human life and the environment that has recently been validated against pan-national data, would value life about four times higher, closer to the value used by the US Department of Transportation ($ 9.1 million in 2012).

Jessica Wyndham, Interim Director of the AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program (SRHRL) opened the meeting, noting that both the scientific and human rights communities are on alert, evaluating the statements and watching closely the actions of the new US administration in areas including climate change, the environment, health, reproductive rights, and freedom of information and freedom of expresHuman Rights and Law Program (SRHRL) opened the meeting, noting that both the scientific and human rights communities are on alert, evaluating the statements and watching closely the actions of the new US administration in areas including climate change, the environment, health, reproductive rights, and freedom of information and freedom of expreshuman rights communities are on alert, evaluating the statements and watching closely the actions of the new US administration in areas including climate change, the environment, health, reproductive rights, and freedom of information and freedom of expression.

Furthermore, by enabling flexible physiological responses to new environments, mitochondria have helped humans and other mammals to adapt and evolve throughout the history of life on earth.