Sentences with phrase «of species on»

Mostly folks who are supportive of every species on earth with the exception of the human race.

It so happens that Monday is Evolution Day, which celebrates the anniversary of Charles Darwin's publication of The Origin of Species on November 24, 1859.

Quigley: «95 % of all species on Planet Earth went extinct with the great rapid warming at the end of the Paleozoic!»

DNA barcoding promises a future where everyone will have rapid access to the names and biological attributes of every species on Earth.»

There is casual talk of «ONLY» 50 % of species dying out with our latest plans to limit our behaviour... if one killed even 10 % of species on the planet it would ensure our eventual death and the death of most life here eventually, because essential nutriments, most elements of chemistry, are recycled by various species... the whole only works as a whole,...

It has caused the extinction of some species on islands and is thought to have contributed to the disappearance of many ground - dwelling birds and mammals on the mainland.»

He underscored how little we really know by recalling that best estimates for the number of species on Earth range from 10 to 100 million.

The consequences and effects of global warming have reached most of the species on earth, including us of course.

It could produce an extinction of species on a wide scale, an extinction that could even include the human race.

The startling conclusion is that continued exploitation of all fossil fuels on Earth threatens not only the other millions of species on the planet but also the survival of humanity itself — and the timetable is shorter than we thought.

The ancestors of every species on Earth today survived through what may have been the warmest time in the history of life.

«It is far less important than other social problems such as poverty, infectious diseases, deforestation, extinction of species on land and in the sea, not to mention war, nuclear weapons and biological weapons.

A large fraction of species on Earth face certain extinction, if we burn most fossil fuels without capturing and storing the carbon dioxide.

During the Permian / Triassic mass extinction, 95 percent of species on the earth perished, apparently from runaway global warming.

Five times during that span, the majority of species on the planet vanished in a short interval of time.

«Furthermore, the study, published by PLoS Biology, says a staggering 86 % of all species on land and 91 % of those in the seas have yet to be discovered, described and catalogued.»

«In our study, we predicted that about half of the species on the Barva Transect have such narrow ranges that, with the 3 °C of warming predicted by the IPPC over the current century, their predicted range will no longer include any portion of their current range.»

Furthermore, the dominance of this species on the planets biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere lends itself to calling at least the later part of this particular interglacial the Anthropocene.

Do we want to place the survival of our species on the unknown possibility that there might eventually be another global cool down?

We argue that the number of species on Earth today is 5 ± 3 million, of which 1.5 million are named.

A search of the internet will quickly demonstrate that the vast majority of species on the planet are moving to the poles, or are moving, if they can, to higher elevations.

(Another important paper last week, assessing evidence for «mass extinction in poorly known taxa» — a euphemism for low - profile organisms, particularly invertebrates — came up with this dark conclusion: «[We] may already have lost 7 percent of the species on Earth and... the biodiversity crisis is real.»)

A recent study predicts that 8.7 million is the total number of species on Earth.

Which is a good thing; though Australia doesn't think so: Saying that three of the species on the list are faring better in Australian waters than elsewhere, Australia will not protect the porbeagle and either of the mako sharks.

«If current policy continues to fail — along the lines of the «agree and ignore» scenario — then 50 % to 80 % of all species on earth could be driven to extinction by the magnitude and rapidity of warming, and much of the planet's surface left uninhabitable to humans.

With all of the millions of species on this planet is it possible that there is a cure for colon cancer in the genetic information of a beetle, a plant or a fungus in the forests of Costa Rica?

I could easily see how the current focus of the synthetic biologists will affect our lives as humans very directly, but how will it evolve and affect the rest of the species on our planet?

The idea that the US will be OK if half of the species on this planet dies is a pretty specious one, if you think about it.

We focus on the pandas and the polar bears and the few extremely vulnerable species, we fetishize random, recently occurring assemblages of species as holistic, cooperative ecosystems that must remain untouched and unchanged by humans, and we ignore the vast, robust biological storm of chaos that characterizes the majority of species on Earth.

Did you know... The latest estimate of species on earth is about 8.7 million species.

They target a huge array of species on the beautiful Great Barrier Reef on a personalised tour catering to six passengers maximum.

The initial census of this species on the islands thought the numbers to be very small, which subsequently proved inaccurate.

Tune in to the first episode of the Sentinels of the Sea podcast as we take a deep dive into the Center's sea lion cancer research to better understand why sea lions have one of the highest rates of cancer of any species on earth, including humans.

If you see a baby bird of any species on the ground, please do not remove them the area.

• From 9 to 58 % of species on land and at sea will be extinct in the coming decades, according to different assumptions.

«Paddleman possessed an excellent reproductive system which ensured the upkeep of the species on its own... But Scheherazade knew none of this due to living in the palace, far away from the rocks where Paddleman moved and procreated.»

«Something suddenly killed off more than 50 percent of all species on Earth, and that led to the age of dinosaurs,» said Peter Ward, a UW Earth and space sciences professor.

A mass extinction about 200 million years ago, which destroyed at least half of the species on Earth, happened very quickly and is demonstrated in the fossil record by the collapse of one - celled organisms called protists, according to new research led by a University of Washington paleontologist.

Centrifuge is a novel microbial classification engine that enables rapid, accurate and sensitive labeling of reads and quantification of species on desktop computers.

A mass extinction about 200 million years ago destroyed at least half of the species on Earth, but left the dinosaurs standing.

For example, sites in western Europe have lost more than 20 - 30 % of their species on average since the Industrial Revolution (late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries).

Research into nematodes is causing biologists to radically revise their estimates of the number of species on the planet.

Methods routinely used to estimate the number of species on land suggest that there are many tens of millions of marine species, and up to 100 million nematodes alone, he says.

«We have millions of species on the planet, but we have 3D models for only a handful,» Dr. Hita Garcia explains.

The author is an ecologist at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and his message is that the Earth is experiencing a mass extinction of species on a par with the one that wiped out the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.

In the future, David Legg intends to further his research and study fossilised creatures from the Ordovician, the geological period that saw the largest increase in diversity of species on the planet.

A recent study by the Environmental Defense Fund shows that of species on the first endangered list drawn up in 1967, those that are recovering received an average of almost four times as much funding as the ones that are declining.

In the 19th century, scientists were competing to explain the marvelous diversity of species on the earth, and not everybody bought into Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution through natural selection.

Together, they make up the vast majority of species on the planet, but until recently we were only able to study a tiny fraction of them.

The researchers then mapped the fin shape of each species on the phylogeny, allowing them to track fin evolution from their ancestral state to living species.