How to Use anthropogenic in a Sentence

anthropogenic

adjective
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  • Are trees truly important for staving off anthropogenic climate change?
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • To their delight, the rock grew less anthropogenic by the day.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 June 2014
  • It could be argued that this is a new round of anthropogenic pressure that our oceans do not need.
    — Sverre Alvik, Forbes, 7 June 2022
  • What can these anthropogenic clouds tell us about our future?
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The blue line and map pair show the contribution of anthropogenic climate change (ACC).
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022
  • One camp held that the mammoth was among the first victims of anthropogenic extinction.
    — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
  • Widespread light at night is a uniquely anthropogenic force.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 13 June 2022
  • The waste sector is the third largest source of anthropogenic methane emissions worldwide, accounting for about 20% of the total.
    — Jennifer McDermott and Joeal Calupitan, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Even in the midst of what scientists are calling the sixth mass extinction, caused by anthropogenic climate change, the world is teeming with life.
    — Gabe Allen, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The reason is anthropogenic change, although the exact factors are hard to assess.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 15 June 2017
  • Experts attribute GLOFs to climate change and the increase of anthropogenic footprints on glaciers.
    — Mudassir Kuloo, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2022
  • By gnawing away at the old view that nonhuman animals simply serve as food, such work can counter anthropogenic views of the past.
    — Paige Madison, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2023
  • And now, the onus is on beekeepers to protect bees from anthropogenic threats such as climate change and pesticide use.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Her team now wants to see how anthropogenic emissions, like sulfur dioxide, affect the ability of plants to seed clouds.
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • And the oil and gas industry — one of the largest sources of anthropogenic methane — is uniquely well-positioned to reduce its emissions.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The first inclination is to make a beeline to anthropogenic climate change.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Past research has shown that at least a third of anthropogenic methane comes from the fossil fuel industry.
    — K.e.d. Coan, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2022
  • Francis has spent his career studying the influence of anthropogenic noise on birds.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The report reveals that the heatwave observed from January to June this year was 600 times more likely due to anthropogenic climate change.
    — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • What’s abundantly clear at the moment is that anthropogenic mass has grown unchecked and become a nefarious crust over the planet.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 15 Dec. 2020
  • With waste, anthropogenic mass began outweighing biomass in 2013, plus or minus five years.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Or hiring a climate science skeptic to lead a center funded to study the effects of anthropogenic climate change.
    — Michael Poliakoff, Forbes, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The global food system is the second-biggest source of anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs), accounting for up to a third of emissions.
    — K.e.d. Coan, Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Meanwhile, new ways of talking that better reflect our anthropogenic epoch are catching on.
    — Kyla Mandel, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Noll discusses the natural and anthropogenic climate change context for the event.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Although drought contributed to the severity of the fires, anthropogenic climate change is not to blame for Maui's drought conditions either.
    — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • How—or even whether—anthropogenic, or human-caused, climate change is taught in the U.S. education system is uneven at best.
    — Elijah Wolfson, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Profound anthropogenic changes have exacerbated that, and in many places there has been ecosystem collapse, with more in the offing.
    — Jim Robbins, Wired, 25 June 2022
  • What was beginning to happen was anthropogenic soil subsidence—the sinking of the land by human action.
    — Richard Campanella, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2018
  • About 22 percent of anthropogenic emissions arise from agriculture, forestry, and other land use.
    — Umair Irfan, Vox, 8 Aug. 2019

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