Sentences with phrase «other human activities»

Besides cattle operations, other human activities such as the production and transport of oil, coal and gas, as well as the decay of organic waste contribute to methane emissions.

As well as other human activities like cement production.

Actually, land ownership / usage has been the actual cause of far more wars, pain, death etc. than anything other human activity in our history.

These and other human activities add over 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year into the atmosphere, with the greatest contribution from fossil fuel burning.

Of the global warming believers, the majority also reported thinking that the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities play a role.

Other human activities include agriculture and changes in land - use patterns.

But those fires are becoming more commonplace due to climate change and other human activities like farming.

«studies show that the number of birds killed by wind turbines is negligible compared to the number that die as a result of other human activities such as traffic, hunting, power lines and high - rise buildings and especially the environmental impacts of using non-clean power sources.

Numerous studies have shown that fishing bycatch kills an alarming number of sea turtles each year, and the threats posed by many other human activities are well documented.

The identification of other, sometimes more powerful, greenhouse gases such as methane, the contributions to atmospheric carbon dioxide from other human activities such as deforestation and cement manufacture, better understanding of the temperature - changing properties of atmospheric pollution such as sulphur emissions, aerosols and their importance in the post-1940s northern hemisphere cooling: the knowledge - base was increasing year by year.

Other human activities also contribute to this phenomenon: «waste dumping, industrial mining activities and smelting are equally responsible for environmental lead pollution,» the scientist points out.

Climate change caused by fossil fuels and other human activities poses an existential threat to Homo sapiens and contributes to mass extinction of species.

Although other human activities such as aquaculture and releasing ballast water from ships probably play a bigger role in spreading invasive marine species, Hines agrees that lax regulations on the seafood industry also contribute to the problem.

«Larger - bodied species often need larger territories and are fewer in number than smaller - bodied species,» he explained, so they would have been more susceptible to extinction as hunting, logging, farming and other human activities took their toll.

A survey has found that fishing, pollution and other human activities along the Yangtze River in China are driving a freshwater mammal, the Yangtze finless porpoise, to the brink of extinction

Other human activities related to unconventional extraction contribute to induced earthquakes as well, Wilson noted.

Their presence, however, has left some researchers wondering if humans are to blame — specifically, have poor environmental conditions fueled by agricultural runoff and other human activities made dolphins unable to weather the diseases?

Swamp Tours Near New Orleans, Louisiana The delicate Mississippi River delta ecosystems have been taking a beating from pollution, stream diversion, and other human activities upstream.

There is hope, however, as CO2 from burning fossil fuels and other human activities appears to have leveled off in 2015 at roughly 40 billion metric tons of CO2 liberated into the atmosphere.

However, algae multiply as coastal development and other human activities bring increasing amounts of nutrient pollution to the ocean.

Scientists around the world conducting research into what actually exists in ocean depths, as well as: the impacts of fishing and other human activities on these deep unknown spaces and species; and what types of improved management options may help to conserve these natural assets (and their contribution to planetary and human wellbeing) for the long term.

Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By the Sea (six nominations) is another film by a real movie artist: a study of grief and the ways in which it is denied and displaced into other human activities which in turn have their effects on other people.

Though other human activities, like changes in land use and forest management practices, can also increase wildfire risk, the evidence increasingly points to an upward nudge from climate change too.

The forecast from researchers at the Met Office's Hadley Centre in Exeter reveals that natural shifts in climate will cancel out warming produced by greenhouse gas emissions and other human activity until 2009, but from then on, temperatures will rise steadily.

But the greatest damage followed other human activity: devastation by fishing fleets, plastic and oil pollution, the introduction of new predators, and entanglement in fishing gear all took their toll.

Weighing the social and economic benefits of fossil fuel consumption and other human activities against some of the environmental consequences, he asked «[i] s it now necessary, for the long - term future of our planet, to limit such development?»

Clearly, a first priority will be drastically reducing GHG emissions to slow the onset of acidification; a more comprehensive set of laws aimed at curbing overfishing, pollution and resource extraction (amongst other human activities) will need to be implemented in a way to ensure that local and regional authorities are sufficiently empowered to act.

«That makes it difficult to separate shark behavioral changes due to scuba diving from behavioral changes caused by other human activities like fishing.»

Forests are affected by other human activities such as farming or logging, and many are in a stage of ecological succession with lower biomass compared to mature forests.

What's more, many other human activities, from building cities to planting crops, alter albedo, and these activities have a much greater impact because they affect a far greater proportion of Earth's surface.

Climate - change impacts on this sector, however, need to be viewed together with other human activities, including impacts that may arise from governance of fresh and marine waters (AMCEN / UNEP, 2002).

The identification of other, sometimes more powerful, greenhouse gases such as methane, the contributions to atmospheric carbon dioxide from other human activities such as deforestation and cement manufacture, better understanding of the temperature - changing properties of atmospheric pollution such as sulphur emissions, aerosols and their importance in the post-1940s northern hemisphere cooling: the knowledge - base was increasing year by year.

Boats plied the waters, but most other human activity was hidden under a thick layer of rainforest vegetation.

«Climate change caused by fossil fuels and other human activities poses an existential threat to Homo sapiens and contributes to mass extinction of species,» the Vatican text states.

Methane and nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture and other human activities add to the atmospheric burden of heat - trapping gases.

Continuous data streaming back to Canada's University of Victoria will enable rapid responses in the choices we make about Arctic shipping and other human activities in the far north.

Change in worship, as in any other human activity, is inevitable.

... No other human activity or experience is mentioned as often» (Must There be Scapegoats?

For, like every other human activity, love of nature is conditioned by the Fall.

Such a person knows that the form, the images and the metaphors that emerge from the marriage of mind and pen are impressions that no other human activity can duplicate.

In fact, did you know that «there are more conditional promises attached to prayer in Scripture than to any other human activity?»