Sentences with phrase «rising human numbers»

A recent study, for example, used paintings to investigate evolving eating habits — of interest to Dot Earth because consumption patterns contribute to the challenges facing a world with rising human numbers and appetites.

With India's population projected to grow from 1.2 billion in 2007 to 1.7 billion in 2050, a collision between rising human numbers and shrinking water supplies seems inevitable.

Not exact matches

On a somber human note, the storm is already being cited for some 20 fatalities — 10 of them in New York City — and officials fear that number may rise.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

There is a very tangible, human reason why people who describe themselves as spiritual have rising numbers.

From the early days of human history we have seen one ideological movement after another rise, inspire, become corrupted by political and other power brokers, attract huge numbers of mindless followers who are trying to fill the empty hole in their pointless lives, and then ultimately disappear in a corrupt mess.

For its part, the Moroccan Association of Human Rights (AMDH) said it had identified 50 people detained and that «the number of arrests continues to rise» and had passed 70 across the whole province.

Indeed, according to a 2009 study published in Human Reproduction, the number of ART procedures is on the rise and so - called test - tube babies account for an estimated 250,000 births every year worldwide.

Slowing the rise in human numbers is essential for the planet — but it doesn't require population control

Since then, the number of ancient humans whose DNA Reich has analyzed has risen exponentially.

These differences suggest that the ancestral population of apes that gave rise to humans, chimps, and bonobos was quite large and diverse genetically — numbering about 27,000 breeding individuals.

The World Health Organization has categorized the bacteria responsible for plague, Yersinia pestis, as a re-emerging pathogen because of the rising number of human plague cases globally.

They found that human needs, such as employment, utility consumption and housing, correspond directly with the population: As the number of people doubles so does the need for housing, jobs and electricity infrastructure, which encompasses the number of roads, gasoline stations and the like already in place and does not necessarily keep pace with individual growth — the ratio of user to facility simply rises.

The study stops short of linking the rise in number and size of fires directly to human - caused climate change.

The rising numbers have raised fresh fears that MERS has adapted and is becoming more easily transmissible between humans, which could result in global spread.

The number of reported human cases in Argentina is rising rapidly, and now stands at 1391, with 22 deaths.

The study for the first time estimates the minimum number of locations in the human genome — 250 to 300 — where gene copy number variation (CNV) can give rise to autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

«It might be difficult to imagine why the large number of gene variants that together give rise to traits like [autism spectrum disorder] are retained in human populations,» co-author and genetics and neuroscience professor Joel Gelernter said in a statement from Yale University.

Human tissues exposed to either drug for one week in a dish had reduced numbers of cells that give rise to sperm and eggs, called germ cells, the study found.

As the number of sequences rises, the sterile and rehearsed human interactions become a noticeable trend.

Tamer Khweis, a Jordanian human rights lawyer, does not believe in a direct correlation between the increased number of Westerners in the country and the rise in prostitution.

The upper portion of the card contains conditions that can increase the threat level based on the current state of New Angeles, such as the threat rising due to outages or the number of Human First supporters currently residing in the city.

These were laid over oil - based visual abstractions created by Rose herself — extremely lo - fi iterations of the images of space she used as inspiration — and interspersed with music as diverse as warped Aretha Franklin numbers and EDM, to create «a work that goes beyond its constituent parts to address ideas of human perception through direct experience and an emotive sensibility», says the gallery.

Wilke has also participated in a large number of significant group exhibitions including the forthcoming exhibition Virginia Woolf: an exhibition based on her writing, Tate St Ives (2018); Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950 - 1980, Met Breuer, New York (2017); Body Talk, Rose Art Museum, Waltham (2017); Feminist Avant - Garde of the 1970s, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2017), travelling to Stavanger Art Museum, Norway and The Brno House of Arts, Brno (2018); I Remember Not Remembering, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2017); The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2017); Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London (2016); Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 - 2016, Hauser & Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles (2016); Americana: Formalizing Craft, Perez Art Museum, Miami (2013); Aquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep, Nottingham Contemporary (2013); Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2012); Naked Before the Camera, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012); Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Seattle Art Museum (2012); The Body as Protest, Albertina Museum, Vienna (2012); Ourselves, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2012); The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, MoMA, New York and elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010).

All Too Human might be rather a mixed bag with a number of glaring omissions — whither Gwen John, David Hockney, Chris Ofili, Rose Wylie, to name but a few?

Since increasing the amount of obtainable food gives rise to increasing human numbers, that there are options becomes clear.

Obviously, rates of consumption of fossil energy and forests per person matter more than the rise in human numbers.

Unless a string of catastrophic events lie ahead, this is the one thing we can say for sure: human numbers are going to keep rising in the next forty years or so, and the end result will be an ageing population reaching 9 billion people in the year 2050: this is what we need to be planning for.

The impact of global warming on temperature - induced human mortality has long been a concern, where it has been hypothesized that rising temperatures will lead to an increase in the number of deaths due to an increase in the frequency and intensity of heat waves.

I noted (as I have previously in this blog) the large number of states that are either divided on or hostile about claims of human - caused global warming that are nonetheless hotbeds of collective activity focused on counteracting the adverse impacts of climate change, including sea level rise.

If humans make no attempts whatsoever to adapt — a curious assumption that the report inexplicably relies on almost throughout — the total number of heat - related deaths will rise.

This would be driven by increasing numbers of humans and a rise in the standard of living around the world.

There are now a number of studies about tobacco and alcohol increasing spontaneous abortions but one must be careful to distinguish studies whose patient population has a confirmed pregnancy (seven weeks after last menses) from those «early pregnancy loss» studies using daily urine samples tested for human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) to detect pregnancy via hCG rise in the second week after ovulation.

There's about 40 percent more of it in the atmosphere today than there was in the millennia of human history before the Industrial Revolution, and that number is rising fast, since we just can't seem to curb our thirst for fossil fuels.

Under the continued pressure of human - forced warming on global ocean levels, a good number (5 - 10 percent) of these cities may begin to succumb to rising tides in as little as a 10 - 30 years.

While some may argue that these are «natural» disasters, there is increasing consensus that rising temperatures, caused by human activity, are contributing to the number and intensity of these events.

To give the impacts of sea level rise a human scale, Hummel and her team recorded the number of people served by each vulnerable treatment facility.

[1] Climate change creates new risks for human exposure to vector - borne diseases such as Zika, particularly in the United States where rising heat and humidity are increasing the number of days annually in which disease vectors thrive.

The number of reported cases where businesses used the Human Rights Act to bolster their argument rose by 15 % last year, from 39 cases in 2011 to 45 cases in 2012, according to figures provided by Sweet & Maxwell.

The US Department of Health and Human Services projects that the number will rise to almost 22 percent by 2040.

From a human rights perspective the extinguishment of native title as it occurs in the Australian legal system gives rise to a number of concerns.

Parental separation may also expose children to loss of social, economic and human capital.4, 14 Other explanatory factors may derive from characteristics typical of separating parents such as lower relationship satisfaction and higher conflict levels also before the separation.4 The rising numbers of children with JPC have concerned child clinicians as well as researchers on the subject.20, 21 Child experts have worried about children's potential feelings of alienation from living in two separate worlds, 20 — 22 increased exposure to parental conflict12, 22 and other stressors that JPC may impose on a child.22 Such daily stressors may be long distances to school, friends and leisure activities, lack of stability in parenting and home environment and a need to adjust to the demands of two different family lives.12, 22 The logistics of travelling between their homes and keeping in contact with friends has been stated as a drawback of JPC in interview studies with children.23 — 25 Older adolescents, in particular, indicated that they preferred to be in one place.23

This report puts a number on the link between rising rents and homelessness, highlighting the very real human impact that rent increases are having across the country.»