Sentences with phrase «increasing algal bloom»

Increasing algal bloom is poisoning fish and shells, and it has become a health hazard for human beings as well: toxic algae are responsible 60,000 cases of food poisoning worldwide every year.

The warming is expected to increase algal blooms, and to mean global methane emissions will rise by 4 % over the next decade.

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However, an analysis of monitoring data collected over the past 30 years indicates that there are increasing concentrations of blue - green algae in the Murray system and there has been an increase in the duration of individual algal blooms at upstream sites [1].

The increasing frequency and duration of harmful algal blooms threaten drinking water quality and the recreational use of lakes essential to upstate tourism, said Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

James Castle and John Rodgers of Clemson University think that such algal blooms — triggered by warming water or an increase in nutrients — might be behind the five largest mass extinctions in Earth's history.

Algal blooms that are toxic to fish and animals would increase by 5 percent.

A recent study of harmful algal blooms in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science show a marked increase in these ecosystem - disrupting events in the past 20 years that are being fed by excess nitrogen runoff from the watershed.

«Increasing toxicity of algal blooms tied to nutrient enrichment and climate change.»

Upon mixing with the surface layer, the water will cause an increase in the growth of filamentous algae and elevate the risk of blue - green algal blooms.

After ruling out previous causes of such mass deaths — cold weather, disease like morbillivirus and even poisoning by algal bloom — fisheries scientists are left with only one conclusion: «Put all that evidence together and it supports the hypothesis that the oil spill contributed to the increase in deaths,» says veterinarian Stephanie Venn - Watson of the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego.

The findings, they wrote, «support the hypothesis that sporadic ALS can be triggered by environmental lake quality and lake conditions that promote harmful algal blooms and increases in cyanobacteria.»

Because algal blooms are closely related to climate factors, projected changes in climate could affect algal blooms and lead to increases in food - and waterborne exposures and subsequent cases of illness.95, 96,97,98,99,100,101 Harmful algal blooms have multiple exposure routes.102, 103,104

Increased inputs of nutrients from land are enhancing algal blooms, and the sinking of this organic matter to the seafloor and subsequent decay leads to a high oxygen demand in bottom waters.

«Basically a little increase [in algal blooms] could cause the greenhouse effect of lakes to increase 5 to 40 percent,» Downing said.

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.

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And the increasing Arctic algal blooming not to be understood as a good sign for the environment, should denyloose get any notion as were it.

Because algal blooms are closely related to climate factors, projected changes in climate could affect algal blooms and lead to increases in food - and waterborne exposures and subsequent cases of illness.95, 96,97,98,99,100,101 Harmful algal blooms have multiple exposure routes.102, 103,104

Declining beach health and harmful algal blooms: Extreme events increase runoff, adding sediments, pollutants, and nutrients to the Great Lakes.

Warmer sea - surface temperatures can boost the frequency of harmful algal blooms, leading to an increased incidence of paralytic shellfish poisoning.

Increases in seawater temperature have been associated with increases in diseases and algal blooms in the aquaculture Increases in seawater temperature have been associated with increases in diseases and algal blooms in the aquaculture increases in diseases and algal blooms in the aquaculture industry.

Increasing temperature, nutrient fluctuations, and human - induced eutrophication may support the development of harmful algal blooms in coastal areas.

This has a variety of unwholesome consequences, most importantly the increasing number of coastal «dead zones» caused by algal blooms feeding on fertiliser - rich run - off waters.

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The global warming connection to increasing incidence of what biologists call «harmful algal blooms» has yet to be established.

Warmer sea surface water can severely damage coral reefs, facilitate algal blooms, and together with warmer air temperature over the oceans, can increase the destructive potential of tropical cyclones and hurricanes.

The impacts of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Great Lakes are being assessed using a range of economic metrics capturing the loss of services provided by the lakes (e.g. increased drinking water treatment costs, property value losses, beach closures), as well as the direct effects of toxic microcystin on public health (Bingham et al 2015, IJC 2013)-- such events are expected to increase in frequency and severity in a changing climate (Michalak et al 2013).

Harmful algal blooms [133] and hypoxia [134] regularly drive mobile animals from certain areas, and increasing coastal development encroaches upon or destroys habitats.

Threats to marine biodiversity in the U.S. are the same as those for most of the world: overexploitation of living resources; reduced water quality; coastal development; shipping; invasive species; rising temperature and concentrations of carbon dioxide in the surface ocean, and other changes that may be consequences of global change, including shifting currents; increased number and size of hypoxic or anoxic areas; and increased number and duration of harmful algal blooms.

Phosphorus is the biggest cause of water quality degradation worldwide, causing «dead zones», toxic algal blooms, a loss of biodiversity and increased health risks for the plants, animals and humans that come in contact with polluted waters.

Increased inputs of nutrients from land are enhancing algal blooms, and the sinking of this...