A world - renowned scholar, he focused on the impact
of human activities on climate change in his teaching and research, and his contributions extended well beyond our campus.
Otherwise we're simply monitoring the
effects of human activity in our neighborhoods, without any reference to the overall picture, about which we presently know damn little.
Huge uncertainties make it difficult to predict the magnitude of consequences
of human activity in the deep ocean.
What we are seeing now is probably the first large animal that has ever gone extinct merely as an indirect
consequence of human activity: a victim of market forces and our collective lifestyle.
Other social sciences, concentrating on certain limited
kinds of human activities, together afford a more detailed picture of man's culture and social organization.
Along the boundary, soil moisture showed «a sharp transition,» as did the type of vegetation likely to grow there in the
absence of human activity, the scientists noted.
The study authors systematically compared the major environmental impacts
of human activity over the past 50,000 years against these two formal requirements.
For some environmentalists, saving the planet is not just about preserving natural resources; it is also about fixing the disruptions caused by
centuries of human activity.
Most responses to today's environmental woes aim to limit the impact
of human activity by minimizing pollution and waste.
And no one can «do the match» so as to determine any such effect
of human activity with any certainty or accuracy.
I am especially drawn to
scenes of human activity, so many of my paintings involve figures in the context of a landscape.
Many assume that civil society is a neutral term, meaning the
realm of human activity outside the state and outside the economy.
That same emotion, however, felt by a countless number of her wild peers amidst the destructive
forces of human activity, is in response to something that isn't natural at all.
The philosophical
study of any human activity aims at exhibiting the «logic» of that activity, that is, at uncovering the principles relevant to its understanding and criticism.
His advice was to continue researching climate and to keep watch on the impacts of change, but not to attribute too much to the idea of the
importance of human activity.
Scientists have determined that a
number of human activities are contributing to global warming by adding excessive amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
These chemicals are released by a wide
variety of human activity in the industrial world, from driving cars to treating sewage.
As described by the artist, these become «lived
spaces of human activity» where «hands and plants, limbs and fabric, bodies and soil hold close to one another».
We need constantly to rethink the goals, effects, overall context and ethical
limits of this human activity, which is a form of power involving considerable risks.
The history of agriculture is closely linked to human history, and agricultural developments have been crucial factors in social change, including the
specialization of human activity.
Phrases with «of human activity»