Sentences with phrase «planetary history»

The stories that now control the course of planetary history are leading us to destruction.

And there have been confident predictions that human behaviour, and in particular the combustion of fossil fuel on a scale without parallel in planetary history, is likely to postpone the next Ice Age for a very long time.

Over planetary history, warm - blood animals have outperformed cold - blooded animals in adapting to changing temperatures

To help answer the question, scientists are also turning toward Mars, where the sedimentary record of early planetary history predates the oldest Earth rocks, and other star systems with planets.

New research suggests that over millions of years of planetary history, birds and mammals have outperformed amphibians and reptiles at adapting to changing temperatures and shifting their habitats to more suitable locations.

To Bell, the scene evokes the planetary history lesson written into the strata of the Grand Canyon on Earth — the familiar turned unfamiliar again, in true Martian style.

But during the past decade or so, researchers have realized that planetary history is full of chaotic movements, with gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn drifting inward and outward from the sun.

Detection of tremolite, a mineral created in the presence of water, could be used to ascertain how long any Venusian oceans lasted as a habitat for Earth - type life over the past 4.6 billion years of planetary history (more).

From liquid to solid, ice holds our planetary history in its transparent layers and informs the future based on the past.

For more explorations of this juncture in human and planetary history, see the must - read collection of essays called «Love Your Monsters: Postenvironmentalism and the Anthropocene.»

Clive Hamilton, an ethicist at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, argued that humans have already entered a frightening period in planetary history.