Sentence examples for human alteration from inspiring English sources

That the climate will respond to human alteration of the carbon cycle is pretty much just basic physics.

AS it is, the United States Geological Survey calls the subsiding of the San Joaquin Valley "the largest human alteration of the Earth's surface".

The Outlook Even if this past fall's warm weather was only a blip in the global thermostat, most scientists are beginning to believe that human alteration of the atmosphere is at least partly responsible for a warming trend that has been going on for decades.

I find the term 'technosphere' neither appropriate nor accurate...It makes it appear that technology is the defining element of human alteration of the Earth system," Ellis said, adding that "humans and societies create and sustain technologies, not the other way around – though of course there is a tight coupling of societies with technologies".

The new study fits into a growing body of scientific analysis suggesting that human alteration of the planet has truly brought on a new geological epoch, which has been dubbed the "anthropocene".

Geomorphologists possess knowledge of the long history of human alteration of the critical zone.

But quantum biology, championed by physicist and broadcaster Jim Al Khalili, suggests an enjoyably speculative direction for extreme human alterations.

The oldest known human alterations to this part of Salisbury Plain are three Mesolithic postholes, dating back more than ten thousand years.

While revealing the rising potential for epic storms, the new findings are likely to confound efforts to discern whether human alterations of the atmosphere, particularly a buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, are increasing the frequency of severe downpours, as many climate experts have predicted.

In most species, from Escherichia coli to human, alterations in this system result in elevated frequencies of microsatellite length alterations.

The floodplain continues to provide the critical ecosystem service of sediment trapping in the face of multiple human alterations.