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ALSO Algal Blooms, Harmful; Algal Blooms in the Ocean; Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean and Atmosphere; El NiÑo and La NiÑA; Food from the Sea; Life in Extreme Water Environments; Human Health and the Ocean; Human Health and Water; Ocean Biogeochemistry; Ocean Currents; Plankton; Pollution by Invasive Species; Pollution of the Ocean by Sewage, Nutrients, AND Chemicals.
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ALSO Algal Blooms in the Ocean; Bivalves; Coastal Ocean; Crustaceans; Ecology, Marine; Fisheries, Marine; Food from the Sea; Human Health and the Ocean; Marine Mammals; Oceanography, Biological; Plankton.
Not exact matches
Environmental water is
also being used to improve the overall resilience of the ecosystems — that is, ensuring the rivers and wetlands are in good health so they can withstand the short - term effects of events such as blue - green
algal blooms.
Ongoing funds for the $ 2.5 billion Clean Water Infrastructure Act and $ 65 million to combat
algal blooms in upstate lakes — including Lake Champlain — have
also been included.
Ammonia gas can
also fall back to Earth and enter lakes, streams and oceans, where it contributes to harmful
algal blooms and «dead zones» with dangerously low oxygen levels.
It
also completely removes funds for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a program devoted to cleaning toxic contamination as well as other problems including invasive species and harmful
algal blooms in the Great Lakes.
They will
also venture out on transects, both on foot and using unmanned aerial vehicles, to get a broader perspective on the
algal blooms.
In addition to contamination of drinking water, bacteria and other microbes can
also contaminate rivers and lakes — for example, the
algal blooms in Hong Kong.
Overfishing
also makes the ocean more prone to toxic
algal blooms, jellyfish
blooms and dead zones.
The domino effect of changes resulted in not only
algal blooms and detrimental changes to the Arctic Char fish population, but
also points to a near certain future of summer ice - free conditions.
Downing and his colleagues
also found that even small increases in harmful
algal blooms could impact the atmosphere.
Scientists are
also beginning to link the increased frequency of harmful
algal blooms to climate change and human activity.