Sentences with phrase «of extinction»

We have the opportunity to define this age as an age of extinction or an age of resilience.

Within a few decades, they found their way from the brink of extinction by becoming a happy, dedicated member of many homes.

The African elephant is classified as «vulnerable» and is facing a high risk of extinction in the wild.

This, in my judgment, makes the polar bear a threatened species — one likely to become in danger of extinction in the foreseeable future.

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].

While under a moderate change scenario only two species are projected to be at the verge of extinction by 2100, 14 species are at particularly high risk under an intermediate change scenario.

The current annual rate of extinction of species far exceeds any plausible rate of generation of species.

These beautiful animals which were once widespread have been driven to the edge of extinction by human ignorance.

It's pretty much your standard «humanity is on the verge of extinction by a new and dangerous species» plot.

The sections on the risks of extinction from warming in the report and the panel's summaries are, at the very least, confusing.

And are being pushed to the point of extinction.

«The No. 1 cause of extinction of organisms is loss of habitat,» he said.

The researchers say this explains why the severity of the extinction event was previously underestimated.

You can't point to any disappearing islands, any climate change refugees, any worsening trend in extreme weather events, any species on the brink of extinction due to climate change.

This pattern mimics, to some degree, current patterns of extinction, suggesting that we might expect similar loss of large - bodied species if we continue along our current path.

On top of that, 800 marine species are at risk of extinction because of plastic.

This guide helps students focus on endangered animals that are facing the possibility of extinction, and explore the ways people are trying to protect them.

I can not claim mastery of the equations being debated here, but I find the focus on habitat loss as the driver of extinction to be narrow minded.

Scientists say the wave of extinction facing the ocean in the coming century could be the worst since the dinosaur age.

A doubling of the strong events leads to an 80 % of extinction within 100 years.

Approximately 20 to 30 percent of plant and animal species assessed so far are likely to be at increased risk of extinction if increases in global average temperature exceed 1.5 to 2.5 °C.

The researchers investigated and demonstrated the role of body size and diet on the likelihood of extinction.

«Some of these shifts may not have played out so well — I think there has probably been a lot of extinction,» he said.

Since the probability of the extinction of many organisms is very high and the consequences are deemed very serious, the risk being run by not dealing effectively with the extinction crisis is gigantic.

The longer we rely on this distinction, the greater risk we face of extinction.

To the biologist, dinosaurs offer windows on evolutionary trends and in particular on the critical issue of extinction.

Additionally, the dietary health of [Indigenous] communities is predicted to suffer as the plants and animals that make up our traditional diets could be at risk of extinction through climate change.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of their extinction and we are asking, have we learned anything since then?

Two endangered Australian mammals are bouncing back from the brink of extinction after being relocated to a remote, predator - free island.

The fact is, we are already in a major period of extinction, exceeding anything seen since the dinosaurs disappeared.

Different populations could still become isolated with increased risk of extinction over time.

About half of all palm species, for instance, will be on the brink of extinction before the end of the century, he says.

This close relationship compounds the negative effects of extinction.

The tragedy of modern American life is that most of the communities that used to support lifelong commitments are in their own final stages of extinction.

The 1940s were kind of an extinction from the 1930s fashion.

If this happens in a law firm, there is a high chance of extinction.

I use extinction risk to mean that the process of extinction is occurring and will reach its unfortunate end state unless conservation actions are put into place or global warming is reversed.

It doesn't matter what sleep training method you're using, it's still technically implementing a form of extinction.

The researchers found that the predictors of extinction vulnerability, geographic range size and the type of organism, have remained consistent over the past 23 million years.

The vast scale of the extinction is shown by the fact that two major structural ecosystems disappeared — reefs and forests.

First of all, 32 - bit smartphones are in no danger of extinction just yet.

Currently we are seeing some stress on some species, and the overall background rate of extinction appears to be rising.

Why should species on the brink of extinction get less protection, as against a bridge, highway, airport or gas station, than they do against a wind farm?

To the offer of more abundant life, we have responded with choosing the economics of extinction.

The eagle was not in danger of extinction until we arrived.