Sentences with phrase «as the algae die»

As the algae died and settled, they created a hypoxic area.

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«As you might expect, increasing the speed of impact does increase the proportion of algae that die,» Pasini explains, «but even at 6.93 kilometres per second, a small proportion survived.

Algae were then able to proliferate, and as soon as they die and sink to the bottom, microorganisms decompose the biomass and consume a lot of oxygen; this resulted in large oxygen - free zones at the bottom of the Baltic Sea to be formed» explains Lennartz.

Algae consume oxygen in the water, especially as they die and decompose.

This sometimes causes outbreaks of diseases such as Cholera in which 1000s of people die, and commonly introduces toxic algae which can cause massive kills of aquatic life.

Scientists have generally believed that more algae — more specifically, the type known as phytoplankton — would be good for the climate, since they thrive on CO2 while alive, then carry the carbon they've absorbed down to the sea bottom when they die.

As algae on the water surface also eventually die, bacteria will break them down.

Neuroscientists used a mouse model of ALS to demonstrate that supplementation with a blue — green algae known as spirulina, which is nutrient rich, provides neuroprotective support for dying motor neurons.

As algae in a cyanobacterial bloom die, the water may smell bad.

From the Great Barrier Reef to the Andaman Islands of the Indian Ocean, what were once bright colorful coral reefs full of life have turned bleached white then murky brown as they've died and become covered in algae.