Sentence examples for human-caused changes from inspiring English sources

They also investigate the impact of human-caused changes, including acid rain and fragmentation of habitats by development.

Yet, the ocean is also sensitive to human-caused changes in climate, including sea surface warming and ocean acidification.

Investigating the flow-sediment relationships across multiple timescales can reveal trends related to the effects of natural and human-caused changes to catchments.

Such analysis requires an "attribution study," which often uses myriad runs of high-powered computer models to determine the odds of an event occurring with, and without, human-caused changes to the atmosphere.

Teach about rapid evolution resulting from human-caused changes in the environment: This news brief for grades 9-12 describes how global warming has already begun to affect the evolution of several species on Earth.

This report found that recent and rapid human-caused changes have produced a "substantial and largely irreversible loss" in the diversity of life on earth and that two-thirds of the world's ecosystem services were declining.

This analysis of change over 5 years cannot fully account for natural longer term climate variations (such as decadal oscillations), but it provides a strong indication of direction (and location) of human-caused change.

She cited her own 2004 work, published in the journal Science, that examined peer-reviewed scientific articles on climate change to see how many departed from the mainstream consensus that human-caused change was occurring.

For example, the blackcaps' split was triggered by a persistent, human-caused change in the environment, while the finches' split was kicked off by a fluke series of natural events.

"About half of the events … reveal compelling evidence that human-caused change was a [contributing] factor," said NOAA National Climatic Data Center Director Thomas Karl today at a press conference accompanying the release of the report.

(The "State of the Climate" press release also skipped any mentions of human-caused change).