Sentences with phrase «american coastal rivers»

Over 60 % of American coastal rivers and bays have been negatively impacted by phosphorus pollution, and there are currently at least 166 coastal «dead zones» in the United States.

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Having reached the broad flat coastal plain the rivers, home to important breeding populations of the endangered American Crocodile, meander through the lowland rainforest, itself home to troupes of Black Howler Monkeys and a myriad of exotic tropical birds.

Cunningham didn't suffuse his paintings with divine light or invoke manifest destiny, like the Hudson River School artists; he simply showed the many small interactions of the Atlantic coastal ecosystem — a delicate balance of dock workers, harbor pilots, fishermen, farmers, waterfowl and American Indian tribes.

«The observed trends may be extrapolated to the coastal seas of the North American Atlantic Ocean and the North, Baltic and Mediterranean Seas, which have received ever - increasing amounts of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrate deposition and river - borne nitrate, comparable to those absorbed by coastal and marginal seas of the northwestern Pacific Ocean.»