Sentences with phrase «sustaining life on the planet»

«Microbiomes sustain life on our planet and they are laboratories of novelty, green chemistry, and life - changing pharmaceuticals,» said Jeff F. Miller, director of the California NanoSystems Institute and the corresponding author of the Science paper.
The ability to learn deeply is perhaps the best legacy we can leave to our younger generations so that they have a fighting chance to survive, save humanity, and sustain life on the planet.
We envision and work to create a culture that protects and promotes a healthy ocean capable of sustaining life on the planet for years to come.
«Many thanks to Ocean Champions for their support and for their tireless efforts to protect our oceans — which are essential to sustaining life on our planet.
GHGs allow the sun's rays to pass through but trap in heat that sustains life on our planet.

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Our planet sustains human life due to the conditions on it and its location in relation to the sun.
Let's further suppose this being, which we'll call God, focused his attention on this planet, terraformed it to sustain life, and then created the life on it.
Plus with your stupidity it's why we are about to break the 7 billion mark on people living on a planet that can't sustain many more.
We will never live on other planets because only one was designed to sustain human life... this one.
It is now clear that early in Mars history, liquid water on or just inside the planet did indeed persist long enough to alter rock and, possibly, sustain the origin of life.
Talk about looking for Martians and you inevitably talk about water, the almost - magical liquid that sustains all life on Earth and seems to have served as an indispensable kick - starter for biology in our planet's deepest past.
The results of the study also suggest that life can be sustained even in remote, cold, nutrient poor environments, offering a new perspective on whether the frozen planets of the universe could support microorganisms.
The new evidence has the potential to alter perceptions about which planets in the universe could sustain life and may mean that humans are having an even greater impact on levels of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere than accepted evidence from climate history studies of ice cores suggests.
On Earth, life is protected, sustained and developed under the planet's magnetosphere — a space controlled by the planet's magnetic field.
Should we seek to colonize another planet, understanding how microbes help make Earth habitable might allow us to create more Earth - like conditions on other planets — conditions necessary to sustain human life.
With that being the truth, researchers are attempting to find out if life could be sustained on the planet, especially in its oceans under the ice.
As the number of confirmed and cataloged heavenly bodies has swelled in the past twenty one years, we have sought to learn more about the conditions on these planets: the temperatures, the atmospheres, their core composition, how they orbit their respective stars, and ultimately, whether any are capable of sustaining life.
Curiosity rover found rock - ingredient stew on the planet Mars that could possibly sustain life.
That's a long time to try and survive on a planet that doesn't sustain human life.
Life on Mars 05/01/2000 [Science Grades 3 - 5, 6 - 8 Submitted by VaReane Heese] Students work in teams to investigate and debate the possibility of transforming Mars so that the planet can sustain life agLife on Mars 05/01/2000 [Science Grades 3 - 5, 6 - 8 Submitted by VaReane Heese] Students work in teams to investigate and debate the possibility of transforming Mars so that the planet can sustain life aglife again.
If you live in an area that can hit triple digits within a 12 - month cycle (10 below zero to 100 - degrees F), this predictable temperature range may remind you of Eden on Earth, and like Eden, Adams, Eves, jaguars and howler monkeys live here in harmony because the weather is conducive to sustaining just about every creature on the planet.
The game puts you in the shoes of a man - or woman depending on your choice of character - who is tasked with finding a new planet suitable to sustain human life.
From seed and spore dispersal, to rapid cell growth of eukaryotic organisms, and the pulsing cilia needed to sustain them, to the slow growth of lichens and moss - life has a remarkable way of establishing itself on the planet; yet, most of these processes go unseen to the human eye.
As Edward O. Wilson explained here in laying out «Wilson's Law,» if we focus too much on the physical infrastructure that sustains us, without sustaining the planet's variegated veneer of life, we're in deep trouble.
I started to realize that until Americans learned how to truly LIVE, putting sustaining life on our precious planet as the central organizing principle of our consciousness, no amount of working for Peace on Earth was going to succeed.
I'll try to attend and write on the event, but I would rather see a debate on this motion: There is no downside to an ambitious, sustained «energy quest» — from the living room to the board room to the laboratory to the classroom to the Oval Office — aimed at advancing humanity without undermining ecological integrity of the planet.
The fountain of energy that sustains life on Earth and exerts dominant control over all the planets, especially the tiny, rocky planets close to the Sun — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.
The actions required to change the developed economy to a sustainable economy that could sustain its own growth, as well as all other life on this planet, would be to the short - term deserved disadvantage of the ones among us who only want a better present for themselves.
It seems to me that if we keep engaging in and hotly pursuing worldwide overproduction, overconsumption and overpopulation activities, distinctly human activities that can not be sustained much longer on a planet with size, compostion and ecology of Earth, then the human species is a clear and present danger on our watch to future human well being, life as we know it, and environmental health.
Most recently, some scientists have claimed that we are living in the age of the Anthropocene, meaning that humankind has been exerting «geological forces» on the planet and on the living systems that sustain it.
A finite planet with the size, composition and environs of the Earth and a community with the boundaries, limited resources and wondrous climate of villages, towns and cities where we live may not be able to sustain much longer the economic and population growth that is occurring on our watch.
Especially since we have no idea how long it will take to develop the technology needed to sustain life on other planets, let alone travel to other solar systems.
By then Aboriginal people have lived on this land for more than 60,000 years, sustaining and evolving the oldest living culture on the planet.
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