Sentences with phrase «on plant and animal life»

The 430 - page report was coauthored and edited by three climate science researchers: Craig D. Idso, Ph.D., editor of the online magazine CO2 Science and author of several books and scholarly articles on the effects of carbon dioxide on plant and animal life; Robert M. Carter, Ph.D., a marine geologist and research professor at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia; and S. Fred Singer, Ph.D., a distinguished atmospheric physicist and first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service.

Recently the artist has been focusing on plant and animal life, anthropomorphising carrots, cacti and corn.

Lunch was always punctuated by a short talk on plant and animal life or the geologic formations we were sitting on.

What effect, if any, does the shadow caused by overhanging foliage have on the plant and animal life in a river?

«This put a lot of stress on plant and animal life,» says archaeologist Steve Kuhn of the University of Arizona.

«Ticks and the bacteria they carry are very opportunistic,» said George Poinar, Jr., a professor emeritus in the Department of Integrative Biology of the OSU College of Science, and one of the world's leading experts on plant and animal life forms found preserved in amber.

Rapid global warming will have complex effects on plant and animal life that can not be predicted in detail.

Not exact matches

Much of the discussion of the first directive has concentrated on the issue of non-violence, but it also says that «the lives of animals and plants... deserve protection, preservation and care».18 The church's record on this issue has been subject to criticism, and certainly modern European society has tended to exploit the natural world and to emphasize the gap between human and other forms of life.

On the other hand efforts at genetic modification of seeds, plant and animal life can lead to dangers to human life itself as seen in the recent instances of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the pollution of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.

He then went on to tell us about the history of the universe from the huge explosion of matter and energy (the Big Bang) through the formation of stars and then rocky planets on which complex chemicals were produced, leading to the synthesis of the first molecules of life and the emergence of the plant and animal kingdoms.

4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.

He has a take on angels, Satan, and demons which I have never heard before, and which seems to fit the biblical text in a way that, if true, would cause me to read much of Scripture in a whole different way, and which would cause me to view life, and governments, and cities, and politics, and animals, and plants and pretty much everything in a whole new way also.

It also destroyed all pre-existing life forms, plant and animal — except for a chosen few saved on Noah's Ark..

Such enabling in community is based on a recognition of the fundamental interconnectedness of life, of men and women, blacks and whites, Americans and Nicaraguans, Americans and Russians, humans and the nonhuman community of animals, plants, air and water.

To properly carry out our God - given function on this earth, we must learn how to properly live in this earth, with each other and with the plants and animals, and rule them as God rules us.

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.

Even though it flatly contradicts astronomy, geology and biology, Morris attempts to defend a literal reading of his textbook on the facts of nature: «The Bible teaches that the earth existed before the stars, that it was initially covered by water, that plant life preceded the sun, that the first animals created were the whales, that birds were made before insects, that man was made before woman.»

How do we account for the tenacity with which plants, animals, and human beings hang on to life?

Since 1960, molecular biologists have been drawing up their own evolutionary trees, and these match those based on fossils and museum specimens of living plants and animals.

The living beings, plants and animals, on this planet are so intrinsically designed, that it has to be evolution.

The same attitude is particularly evident in the wisdom literature, with its many similes from observation of animals, weather, plant life, and so on.

Additionally, the horror would include catastrophic biological aftereffects from probable destruction of the ozone layer and a nuclear winter likely to end all plant and animal life on earth.

The writer seems to be saying that animal life, whether on land or in the sea, is more marvelous than mere plant life, and, although issuing from the womb of the earth and from the waters, required a special operation of God to bring it about.

Life on this planet has, in the context of its limitations, managed a threefold success: plant and animal life, and among the animals, arthropods (including social insects) and vertebrates (including humankLife on this planet has, in the context of its limitations, managed a threefold success: plant and animal life, and among the animals, arthropods (including social insects) and vertebrates (including humanklife, and among the animals, arthropods (including social insects) and vertebrates (including humankind.

re: «People live in Alaska on a predominantly animal based diet and research has shown them to be quite healthy with almost no plant foods.»

I've been a vegetarian all my life but as I adapt a more plant - based lifestyle and slowly cut out dairy, it's been much harder for me to watch my loved ones indulge on animal products.

Key Concept: Regardless of the natural surroundings or the day - to - day conditions in any given place, plants and animals rely on their environment to provide them with the raw materials they need for life and the conditions to live safely and without stress.

Nature Foundation SA has begun pumping Commonwealth environmental water on to the floodplains and wetlands that support vulnerable plant and animal life near the Murray River National Park and downstream of Chowilla floodplain in South Australia's Riverland.

Our on - site programs offer opportunities to investigate the ecology of New England habitats and the adaptations of animals and plants that live here.

The Burger That Shattered Her Life — Stephanie Smith (The New York Times) watch the video 38 % was from Greater Omaha meat packing plant 37 % from Lone Star, a slaughterhouse in Texas 15 % from a processor in Uruguay 10 % from Beef Products International (PINK SLIME) A study done by R.P. Clayton and K.E. Belk in 1998 concluded that a single 4 - ounce ground beef patty was made from, on average, at least 55 different animals to, at most, an average of 1082 animals.

In a recently published article, they present their findings on the health effects in animals and plants living in sedimentation dams.

The National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity has defined DURC as «life sciences research that, based on current understanding, can be reasonably anticipated to provide knowledge, information, products, or technologies that could be directly misapplied to pose a significant threat with broad potential consequences to public health and safety, agricultural crops and other plants, animals, the environment, materiel, or national security».

Whereas little is known of the plants and animals that lived on Appalachia, the rocks of Laramidia exposed in the Western Interior of North America have generated a plethora of dinosaur remains.

(Ill - fitting because humans have been indirectly, and much less precisely, modifying plant and animal genomes for thousands of years via selective breeding, and evolution has been doing it for as long as there has been life on Earth.)

This included the study of fungi living in the water and the sediments, as well as fungi living on the surfaces of plants and other animals.

Many live freely in the soil or water, but there are also a large number of species that live as parasites on plants or animals and even some that feed on mold.

Overfishing, pollution, climate change and destruction of habitats like coral reefs are all putting our seas in trouble but academics fear the risk is not being taken as seriously as concerns for the loss of animals and plants which live on land.

LIFE focuses on up - close encounters with the astonishing, quirky, and endearing behaviors of animals and plants dwelling on every continent and in every habitat.

Around the world, beautiful iconic animals like Amur tigers or Javan rhinos are at risk of disappearing, as well as tens of thousands plants and smaller creatures that are the foundation of all life on earth.

Bio-indicators are plants and animals that scientists use to monitor the presence of toxins in the environment (like the miners» canaries, whose lives depended on an adequate supply of breathable air).

«Almost all life on Earth is based on plants — animals eat plants and we eat animals or plants,» says Wolfgang Busch, an associate professor in Salk's Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory and senior author of the new paper.

WHILE Russia is encouraging people to settIe on the remote and foggy Kuril Islands, a team of American biologists is aiming to get there first — to survey the plant and animal life of the islands before a development boom takes hold.

As the book points out: «Plants and animals living in crowded conditions, as on reefs and in rainforests, often produce poisons to fight off competitors,» and these poisons can be turned to good pharmacological use.

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, who began to be interested in the role of cooperation in evolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals and plants.

He's presented research findings based on several analyses he's done that suggest once sucralose levels in a body of water rise above 57 parts per trillion, it's an indicator that the water is experiencing some level of human impact and the onset of eutrophication — nutrient loading that can encourage plant growth and suffocate animal life.

«Indirectly, though, they also serve to relieve some of the pressure on animal and plant life.»

Star A's late spectral type and dim luminosity puts it possibly close to the lower limit of habitability for (multicellular) Earth - type plant and animal life, given the redness of its light and the increased risk of tidal locking from the closeness of the orbit necessary for liquid water on a planetary surface.

How long did it take before large plants and animals evolved on Earth and adapted to life on land?

Extracts from animals and plants living on reefs have been used to develop treatments for asthma, arthritis, cancer and heart disease.

Paleontologists use evidence of past life on Earth from fossils (of plants and animals) to understand the many changes in climates and environments that took place.