Sentences with phrase «planetary environments in»

Big stars explode and leave a buildup of the heavy elements responsible for the creation of the planetary environments in which life in the Universe has become possible.

And to maintain or slightly increase planetary temperature is also very much a global good if — as Ruddiman and other scientists assert — the human production of greenhouse gases is helping to hold our planetary environment in its historic, benignly warm, interglacial mode.»

Not exact matches

The culture in which the global society finds its cohesion needs to be able to draw all human groups and individuals into some form of shared life, a degree of commonality that allows for harmony between peoples and also with the planetary environment.

... If our politicians were realists, they would think rather less about missiles and the problem of landing astronauts on the moon, rather more about hunger and moral squalor and the problem of enabling three billion men, women, and children, who will soon be six billions, to lead a tolerably human existence without, in the process, ruining and befouling their planetary environment.

At this point it must be recognized that the interdependence of all life in relationship to the planetary environment places special obligations and limitations on the present generation.

Men must think of the whole range of biosocial conditions which pertain to the realization of the potentialities of individuals in a justly ordered society living in harmonious union with the planetary environment.

Within the continuum of planetary life there have evolved many interconnected systems, each of them in symbiotic relationship with its environment.

The effect also illustrates one proposal for so - called geoengineering — the deliberate, large - scale manipulation of the planetary environment — that would use various means to create such sulfuric acid aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and thereby hopefully forestall catastrophic climate change.

The sun's birth environment couldn't have been too crowded, the logic went, because planetary systems, like ours, could never survive the gravitational jostling of neighboring stars in urban clusters.

Another way is, here we are in the solar system with all its variations in planetary environments, and if we don't find life, that's going to be a downer.»

The goal is geoengineering, or the «deliberate, large - scale manipulation of the planetary environment» in the words of the Royal Society of London, which provides scientific advice to policymakers.

«This was a hostile, stressful environment for these organisms,» said Oleg Abramov, a planetary scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., who was not involved with planetary scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., who was not involved with Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., who was not involved with the work.

With entry categories for science / healthcare workers and the under 25s as well as professional and amateur photographers, the competition is an opportunity to stimulate an interest in any area of science, from planetary movements to cellular signalling or more general topics such as physics or the environment, as well as demonstrating artistic flair.

New research using data from NASA's Van Allen Probes mission helps resolve decades of scientific uncertainty over the origin of ultra-relativistic electrons in Earth's near space environment, and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary magnetospheres throughout the universe.

The paper is titled «Processing of meteoritic organic materials as a possible analog of early molecular evolution in planetary environments,» and is co-authored by Pizzarello, geologist Lynda Williams, NMR specialist Gregory Holland and graduate student Stephen Davidowski, all from ASU.

Spacecraft instruments will gather continuous data on the interplanetary environment where the planetary system orbits, including measurements of the high - energy particles streaming from the sun and dust - particle concentrations in the inner reaches of the Kuiper Belt.

«We've shown that cropland recycles less water annually back into the atmosphere than native Cerrado vegetation,» said Stephanie Spera, a graduate student at Brown University in the department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Science and a researcher at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES).

The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.

Relatively long wavelength photons (> 90 nm) cause, in general, dissociation, whereas shorter ones cause ionization (Seki et al. 2015), with efficiencies depending on the atmospheric species in each planetary environment.

Such a result indeed indicates that planetary space weather could be far more intense in environments other than our Solar System hence understanding its features and processes could also be of help when investigating the characteristics of other Solar Systems as well as the exoplanet physics.

K2 - 66b and K2 - 106b probe planetary physics in extreme radiation environments.

Working at Goddard Space Flight Center's Planetary Environments Laboratory as a bio-geochemist and geologist with an interest in astrobiology, Dr. Eigenbrode is part of the research team working with MSL's Science Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument testing the chemistry of Martian rocks, sediments and ice and looking for organic and inorganic compounds.

In a talk entitled, «A Future Mars Environment for Science and Exploration» given at the recent Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop in Washington DC, Green discussed a magnetic shield which would be launched into stable orbit between Mars and the sun at a position known as the Mars L1 Lagrange PoinIn a talk entitled, «A Future Mars Environment for Science and Exploration» given at the recent Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop in Washington DC, Green discussed a magnetic shield which would be launched into stable orbit between Mars and the sun at a position known as the Mars L1 Lagrange Poinin Washington DC, Green discussed a magnetic shield which would be launched into stable orbit between Mars and the sun at a position known as the Mars L1 Lagrange Point.

Enceladus, named after one of the giant children of mother Earth in Greek mythology, has long intrigued planetary scientists (as well as astrobiologists wondering if primitive life could exist in extreme environments).

The more heavy water, the colder the environment was in which the water formed, meaning it likely came from farther away in the disk — or may even pre-date the disk, since it's easier for heavy water to form in the molecular cloud that spawned the star and planetary system than in a dust disk.

Thorough analysis of interferometric data was performed to meas... ▽ More We aim at resolving the circumstellar environment around beta Pic in the near - infrared in order to study the inner planetary system (< 200 mas, i.e., ~ 4 AU).

Abstract: We aim at resolving the circumstellar environment around beta Pic in the near - infrared in order to study the inner planetary system (< 200 mas, i.e., ~ 4 AU).

A planetary consciousness whereby all cultural worldviews live together in peace and harmony with the environment.

Members embrace the intrinsic value and right to exist of the other - than - human and of natural environments, and recognize that the pursuance and advocacy of a planetary ethic of environmental and social justice needs to be grounded in, as well as restorative and celebratory of, local and indigenous communities and cultures.

Rante's constant investigation of existence in the environment is depicted through vibrant cyanotypes on Okawara paper, which reference a star map or a planetary body.

Scores and videos from the 1980s to the present depicting Anna Halprin's «Planetary Dance» rituals; Charles Atlas's The Tyranny of Consciousness (2017), a video wall depicting blazing sunsets over which we hear the voice of New York drag performer Lady Bunny talk about her life and the environment; Bonnie Ora Sherk's Evolution of Life Frames: Past, Present, Future and Crossroads Community (The Farm)(both 2005 — 17)-- photographs and documents tracing her longstanding work in community activism and environmental conservation.

If human - induced global warming, among other factors such as human - driven pollution and human - forced overpopulation, serve decisively to precipitate the massive extinction of biodiversity, the irreversible degradation of Earth's environment and the reckless dissipation of its resources, so as to make our planetary home unfit for life as we know it, then is no one to bear responsibility for such a colossal wreckage as we could help to perpetrate in these early years of Century XXI?

The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.

Please forgive me for stating the obvious: there are mountains of scientific evidence, plenty of sound reasons and abundant common sense imploring the leaders of India, China, the US and the rest of the over-developed and under - developed world to consider that the seemingly endless, global expansion of large - scale industrialization and production capabilities, now overspreading the surface of Earth, could be approaching a point in history when these unbridled big - business activities could dangerously destablize frangible global ecosystems, irreversibly degrade the environment, recklessly dissipate Earth's natural resource base and, perhaps, destroy our planetary home as a fit place for human habitation by our children.

Some argue that humanity can now survive, and even thrive, in a rapidly destabilizing planetary environment, but that is a belief system based on supreme technological optimism, and is not a reasoned scientifically informed judgment.

Below I've linked to a semi-random sample of the reading I've been trying to fit in while discussing population, climate, the energy challenge and humanity's emerging role as a planetary manager at the Aspen Environment Forum.

These include his founding role, a few years ago, in the Shifting Baselines Ocean Media Project, which generated videos, short films, hilarious public service announcements, and stand - up comedy contests, all intended to counteract «planetary amnesia» — the mass forgetting of mounting losses in the natural environment.

The Planetary Boundaries framework can help in formulating policies and targets to operationalize the global environmental dimension of the 7th Environment Action Programme and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the EU.

We are then likely caught in the need for geo - engineering for the foreseeable future, and if we stop because of a decline in our civilization (dark age) then we face a radically different planetary environment that could pound us down further.

Panelists, which included senior environmental and health officials from Morocco, Gambia and Ivory Coast as well as UNFCCC, the World Health Organization, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, weighed in on the urgent need to take action on the environment in ways that protect human health — which is the core of planetary health.

From the University of California — Los Angeles New research published in the journal Nature resolves decades of scientific controversy over the origin of the extremely energetic particles known as ultra-relativistic electrons in the Earth's near - space environment and is likely to influence our understanding of planetary magnetospheres throughout the universe.

In addition to Dozier, the other participants in the study week from California were Michael Ghil of UCLA's Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics; Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, based in Oakland; Wolfgang Panofsky of Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center; Elisabeth Paté - Cornell, also from Stanford; and Mikhail Rabinovich of the Institute for Nonlinear Science at the University of California at San DiegIn addition to Dozier, the other participants in the study week from California were Michael Ghil of UCLA's Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics; Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, based in Oakland; Wolfgang Panofsky of Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center; Elisabeth Paté - Cornell, also from Stanford; and Mikhail Rabinovich of the Institute for Nonlinear Science at the University of California at San Diegin the study week from California were Michael Ghil of UCLA's Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics; Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security, based in Oakland; Wolfgang Panofsky of Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center; Elisabeth Paté - Cornell, also from Stanford; and Mikhail Rabinovich of the Institute for Nonlinear Science at the University of California at San Diegin Development, Environment, and Security, based in Oakland; Wolfgang Panofsky of Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center; Elisabeth Paté - Cornell, also from Stanford; and Mikhail Rabinovich of the Institute for Nonlinear Science at the University of California at San Diegin Oakland; Wolfgang Panofsky of Stanford's Linear Accelerator Center; Elisabeth Paté - Cornell, also from Stanford; and Mikhail Rabinovich of the Institute for Nonlinear Science at the University of California at San Diego.

In combination, these two research efforts add to the massive amount of scientific evidence that climate change is always occurring; and, most definitely does not require human consumer / industrial greenhouse gases to produce significant impacts on planetary environments and those associated civilizations.

The authors» argue that early life may perform a vital regulating function on an early planetary environment by impacting both the planet's albedo (how much light it reflects from the sun) and the greenhouse gases present in its atmosphere.

«The atmospheric greenhouse effect, an idea that many authors trace back to the traditional works of Fourier 1824, Tyndall 1861, and Arrhenius 1896, and which is still supported in global climatology, essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.

«[The greenhouse theory] essentially describes a fictitious mechanism, in which a planetary atmosphere acts as a heat pump driven by an environment that is radiatively interacting with but radiatively equilibrated to the atmospheric system.

I want everyone in my species working together toward an achievement of truly planetary dimensions, willfully reducing the impact we have on our environment, and designing a sustainable future our descendants can be proud of.

The failure to account for different environments points to the main problem with the planetary boundaries framework: it only measures environmental change as negative — as progression toward supposed biophysical boundaries — and never as positive, either for humans (e.g., more food) or environments (e.g., higher yields resulting in less deforestation).