Sentences with phrase «with human settlement»

They learn to examine ecology and other elements of science and geology, showing their interconnectedness with human settlement patterns and geography.

The combined area of the three biologically productive systems on land is shrinking, while what is left, wasteland and areas covered with human settlements, are expanding (Brown 1990).

So even though it might be possible to provide wildcats with the habitat and space they need through small parks connected by wildlife corridors, ultimately such plans wouldn't work because the corridors would probably put the wildcats in closer contact with human settlements.

In contrast, the mothers who lost their cubs avoided areas with human settlements, roads, and clear - cuts, and instead stayed in areas with tree - rich bogs and forest.

But federal extermination programs and conflicts with human settlements have reduced their numbers to the breaking point.

As medium - sized carnivores, domestic cats, Felis catus, are usually strictly associated with human settlements and have been introduced by humans all over the world.

This is much harder to measure than in undisturbed forests — these are trees in diverse small to large patches in abandoned agricultural lands intermingled with human settlements and are surely growing differently than trees in undisturbed forests or in the experimental planted and regrowing forests where carbon sink strength has been measured using precise methods.

His argument is very simple: dogs have survived for millions of years eating raw food, both in the wild and with human settlements, and that they don't have the ability to digest grains.

Not exact matches

That might seem like a huge stroke of luck for any company, but Johansson signed on after controversially severing her ties as an ambassador with human rights and aid organization Oxfam, which has long opposed Israeli settlement in the West Bank.

For years, trade and justice activists have proposed renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement to address some of the deal's most damaging features: for example, by removing the anti-democratic investor - state dispute settlement provisions of Chapter 11, linking trade benefits to genuine protections for human and labour rights (all the more important given the deteriorating democratic situation in Mexico), and establishing a continent - wide strategy for auto investment and production. We were always told that renegotiating NAFTA was a pipe dream: it would not be possible to open the text and get all three countries on board with reforms, no matter how legitimate the concerns.

To make traditional villages, towns, neighborhoods and cities today — like the places we love to visit (villages and towns like Cooperstown and Key West; small cities like Annapolis, Savannah and Santa Barbara; and big cities with distinctive neighborhoods like Boston, New York and Chicago)-- requires a conscious and conscientious rejection of the way we've been making human settlements since 1945.

Much of their work focuses on the house mouse (Mus musculus), which evolved to be commensal with humans: The mice are not domesticated like dogs or sheep, but they are dependent on living in and around a human settlement.

AAAS worked with Amnesty International and the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights to precisley locate image sets of destroyed settlements.

They then estimated the yearly mutation rate on the Y chromosome by calibrating it with a known event: the human settlement of the Americas that occurred about 15,000 years ago.

It is an entire human settlement, built with government support, for a population of millions who — for whatever reason — have yet to arrive.

Nigel Henbest focuses on human issues associated with a permanent Mars settlement (13 July, p 43).

But distinct Neolithic - style personal ornaments and architecture also turn up in late Mesolithic sites such as Lepenski Vir in Serbia, a large settlement rich in burials and art such as boulders sculpted with half - human, half - fish images.

Understanding how big cats interact with such human settlements aids development of strategies for their conservation.

Criteria (v): be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land - use, or seause which is representative of a culture or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change

This includes MOUs with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC / UNESCO); the International Maritime Organization (IMO); the Global Invasive Species Programme (GISP); the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA); the State Oceanic Administration of the People's Republic of China (SOA); the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT); the Cluster of Excellence on the Future Ocean at Christian - Albrechts Universitat zu Kiel, Germany; the European Centre for Information on Marine Science and Technology (EurOcean); the University of Malta; the State Enterprise on Caspian Sea Issues at the President of Turkmenistan in Turkmenistan; and the High Seas Alliance among others.

«This settlement resolves the parties» various patent disputes worldwide with respect to human definitive endoderm cells from human pluripotent stem cells.

He was an advocate for human settlement of Mars, worked with NASA on every space expedition over several decades, and edited Icarus, the scientific journal of solar system studies.

Saguenay is located in a depression in the Canadian shield with a somewhat more temperate climate than the surrounding region, allowing agriculture and human settlement to take place.

With its corrugated tin sheds and abject poverty, District 9 stands in for the township settlements where more than a million South African blacks still live without basic human services, two decades after the end of apartheid.

Even with the campaign mode, Starship Corporation will also include a sandbox mode with access to all known human settlements in the galaxy, 177 unlockable rooms and facility designs, 22 unlockable fuselages, and 24 missions for standard operations, emergencies, and hostile encounters to test your ship in Crew Management.

This final human settlement, dubbed «New Los Angeles», now serves as the last speck of humanity in the universe, and it must find a way to co-exist with Mira's indigenous people, the Nopon.

If they reach the human settlement of Lake - town it will be time for the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to fulfill his contract with the dwarves.

b by 2020, increase by x % the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters, develop and implement in line with the forthcoming Hyogo Framework holistic disaster risk management at all levels

With the expansion of human settlement and activity in the area, turtle populations have declined.

San Cristobal is one of the five largest islands of the Galapagos Archipelago; one of the oldest of the group geologically speaking; the one with the most amount of natural fresh water (just on Floreana and San Cristobal) and also one of the oldest human settlements in the islands with a stable population since the second half of the 19th Century.

My expectations were colored by genuine masterpieces of human creativity: Kris Takahashi's Interesting NPCs for Skyrim, which adds dozens of fully - voiced characters with their own questlines and personalities; Max - Ischreyt's Better Cities for Oblivion; and kinggath's Sim Settlements for Fallout 4 that allows towns to grow independently without player micromanagement.

With morale rock bottom, and humans and Varl alike dying en route to the next settlement, I was offered an unlikely lifeline as the next narrative quandary centred on the theft of supplies.

Already in Early Access, this player - vs - AI strategy game sees you charged with trying to build and protect a human settlement from thousands of zombies.

As you progress, you'll face increasingly tough challenges, from a few puny humans trying in vain to defend their settlements, to huge battleships and clashes with other gigantic kaiju.

Refugee camps, once considered temporary settlements, have become sites through which to examine how human rights intersect with the making of cities.

Even though economists can calculate a price on human life, e.g. for court settlement purposes (with a greater price for the rich and important people), and chemists can figure a human to be worth $ 2 in chemicals (that was 40 years ago, so it must be at least $ 10 now), there is no amount of money that can bring back a life.

According to the latest science, in most cases (outside of extreme heat waves) the connections between today's extreme weather events and human - driven climate change range from weak (hurricanes) to nil (tornadoes)-- and the dominant driver of losses in such events is fast - paced development or settlement in places with fundamental climatic or coastal vulnerability.

This seventh will deal with a range of issues including sustainable cities and human settlements, sustainable transport; sustainable consumption and production (including chemicals and waste) as well as climate change and disaster risk reduction.

«Powell talked eloquently about the 100th meridian, and this concept of a boundary line has stayed with us down to the current day,» said Richard Seager of Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory, who led the study «We wanted to ask whether there really is such a divide, and whether it's influenced human settlement.»

In an interview with the Herald, the head of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), José Luis Samaniego said the region is already seeing many effects of climate change and faces an average GDP drop of one percentage point because of it.

These forests are overgrown because nearby human settlements have interfered with naturally occurring smaller wildfires that have historically controlled the balance.

With a passion for a healthy planet and a fascination for the evolution of human settlements, Dan was drawn to the minimalist idea of a Tiny Home.

I don't know, but the horror El Ninos of the early 1790s, which coincided with one of history's great human disasters in India, just by chance make their way into the earliest journals of the baby Australian settlements of Sydney and Rose Hill.

Coincident with the abrupt cooling and hydrological changes of ~ 5,200 yr BP, archaeological studies support a general pattern of abandoned Neolithic human settlements in several areas, including the Andes and the entire Eastern Mediterranean, indicating a widespread climatic crisis that marks the transition from the Chalcolithic to the early Bronze Age (Weninger et al., 2009).

Cats on FL might have been present since the early 19th century with a small settlement established by sealers, later used to exile the remnants of the Tasmanian aboriginal human population.

Human settlements are awash with the gas.

Intensifying many human activities — particularly farming, energy extraction, forestry, and settlement — so that they use less land and interfere less with the natural world is the key to decoupling human development from environmental impacts.

Meanwhile, the UN human settlements programme estimates that nearly 70 per cent of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2050, with most of the growth expected to take place in Asia.

Extreme weather events associated with climate change pose particular challenges to human settlements, because assets and populations in both developed and developing countries are increasingly located in coastal areas, slopes, ravines and other risk - prone regions (Freeman and Warner, 2001; Bigio, 2003; UN-Habitat, 2003).

In an interview with the Herald, head of the Sustainable Development and Human Settlements area of the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the...