Sentences with phrase «with near extinction»

Today, Klamath salmon and steelhead runs are a fraction of their historic abundance, with some near extinction.

The answer may lie with this pinniped's brush with near extinction hundreds of years ago.

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Buffalo were killed off to the point of near extinction by non Native Americans whereas the N.A. lived off the populations for food, clothing, shelter, religious purposes with no damage to the herds.

To see if these deaths were linked with the KT extinction, the researchers tested for iridium, the rare metal found throughout the world near the KT boundary, thought by most to be evidence of a cosmic impact.

Two University of Michigan researchers and a Florida colleague found two abrupt warming spikes in ocean temperatures that coincide with two previously documented extinction pulses near the end of the Cretaceous Period.

As the Brazilian tribal language Tupi Guarani nears extinction, this hyper - aggressive group is raising awareness about the urgent need to save it — one ENOUGH WITH THE CHRISTMAS SWEATERS PLEASE!

And after shrinking almost to extinction, the smaller midsize segment is making a comeback, with the Ford Ranger returning on the heels of the return of the Chevy Colorado and GMC Canyon joining the Nissan Frontier, Toyota Tacoma and crossover - based Honda Ridgeline, which will add a hybrid option in the near future.

With Alaska no longer the profitable endeavor, the foreign invaders left, leaving the bowhead whale, the walrus, and the caribou in a state of near extinction.

Despite its value, the breed faced near - extinction in the mid to late 18th century with the collapse of the Scottish nobility after the battle of Culloden and the Jacobite rebellion but was saved by enthusiasts Archibald and Duncan McNeill.

With its population concentrated on the farms of northeastern France, trench warfare in the Somme reduced the Picard to near extinction.

In the end, all islands tend to produce an equilibrium between the force of extinction and the force of immigration, in which larger islands, and islands near large continents, tend to settle with similarly large amounts of biodiversity, while smaller islands tend to have similarly low levels of diversity.

The story picks up four years after the conclusion of Resistance 2, humanity is near extinction and Joe has been vilified and discharged from the army for killing the hero Hale, and the new protagonist is doing his best to live in peace with his family and other survivors.

With the help of their trusty Astro Worker, players terraform planets, decimate local fauna and drive native animal life to near extinction in their quest for the perfect soup.

A new film by artists David Blandy and Larry Achiampong combines footage of Hadrian's Wall with computer gaming visuals to generate a new immersive installation that tells a fantastical tale of a land that isolated itself into near extinction.

Then suddenly, in the last ten thousand years — a mere 0.4 % eye blink of time — our population increased over 1000 times, we decimated the earth's stocks of non-renewable resources, we cut down over 90 % of the planet's forests, we fished her oceans to the edge of extinction, and we live in a near - constant state of conflict with each other.

Mr. Wilson's description brought to mind discussions I had around 2001 with Karl Flessa, a scientist at the University of Arizona whose focus has been the near - extinction of a clam species from the Colorado River delta that just a century ago was so abundant that its shells still form beaches and dunes.

The website offers low - cost workshops and reads, «You've come to grips with near - term human extinction.

TRAFFIC and the Pew Environment Group says that with 30 per cent of shark species now threatened or near threatened with extinction, there is little evidence that the plan has contributed significantly to improved conservation.

The current dominant mindset and behavior of our species is rapidly pushing us all toward mathematically certain near term total extinction (which draws closer with each passing day on the current course).

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The American title insurers were allowed to «compete» with lawyers, whereupon they undercut the real estate bar into near extinction and almost wiped the market clean of competitors.

In this one, you play as Munch, a frog - like creature whose species has been fished to near extinction and now is going to take revenge with their side - kick, Abe.