NSES Content Standard F  Science in Personal and Social Perspectives: Science and technology in local, national, and global challenges  Grades 9-12, page 199  Humans have a major effect on other species. For example, the influence of humans on other organisms occurs through land use--which decreases space available to other species--and pollution--which changes the chemical composition of air, soil, and water.

 
Benchmark 3C The Nature of Technology: Issues in Technology
Grades 9-12, page 57
The human species has a major impact on other species in many ways: reducing the amount of the earth's surface available to those other species, interfering with their food sources, changing the temperature and chemical composition of their habitats, introducing foreign species into their ecosystems, and altering organisms directly through selective breeding and genetic engineering.