He fixes the drones that protect earth's only remaining industry, a vast extractive operation that's supposedly providing power for an ongoing human migration to Titan, Saturn's largest moon.
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Manfred Kayser says ancestry markers can - at best - trace an individual to a broad region: "Human migration history has produced no sharp genetic borders and no sharp appearance borders, " he explains.
So, I chatted with them, and in the course of things brought up the Genographic Project, which aims, using genetic mutations as signposts, to map human migration from our origins in Africa to all the places we live today.
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In 2011, as a result of a two-day workshop on Internal Migration and Human Development, UNESCO and UNICEF launched the Internal Migration in India Initiative (IMII) to support the social inclusion of migrants in the economic, social, political and cultural life of the country, using a three-legged approach combining research, policy and advocacy.
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Climate change is already adversely affecting many areas, including biodiversity and ecosystems, freshwater resources, human health, human settlements and migration patterns, the conservation of natural and cultural world heritage properties, and peace and prosperity.
In a study of 127 developing countries in 2009, the prospect of migration boosted human capital, rather than draining it.
Do we really want to pack them up, forcibly, by the millions in the greatest forced migration in human history?
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While hundreds of studies around the world have linked climate change to phenomena including the increased frequency and intensity of hurricanes and other storms, changing rainfall patterns, drought, coastal flooding, changing disease patterns and the migration of human populations.
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"New thinking and practical approaches are needed to address the threats that climate-related migration poses to human security and well-being, " Warner said.
The figure would represent around one in nine people on earth, according to current population projections, but would mainly affect the world's poorest people in Africa, Asia and Latin America, according to the authors of "Human Tide: The Real Migration Crisis, " produced buy the charity Christian Aid.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso stressed that migration should be a source of prosperity, not a human tragedy.
This is a quickly fading paradigm which has held us in its grip for hundreds if not thousands of years, and has affected every aspect of our human life from politics , economics , health and religion to population migration, wars, and scientific development.
Science plays an important role in our response to global issues such as climate change, the hydrological cycle, biodiversity loss, natural hazards and human-induced disasters, population growth, land-use change, migration and urbanisation.
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It is now clear that the migration of humans out of Africa was more complicated than previously thought, and that human history involved not just successive population splits, but also frequent mixing.
"We need to design a migration policy that conforms with the rule of law and conforms with the focus on human rights, which is what we are proposing, " said Roque Feliz, deputy director of Centro Bono, a Jesuit nonprofit.
On 1 June, the Steering Committee will continue its work in a private session in order to follow up the recommendations developed during the 1st meeting of the Permanent Forum of Arab-African Dialogue on Democracy and Human Rights, held from 7 to 9 December 2009, in Cairo (Egypt), on the theme of migration between Arab and African countries.
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