Sentences with word «algal»

The IJC said those reductions would «reduce the frequency and severity of harmful algal blooms in the western Lake Erie basin to an acceptable level.»

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.

In nature, nitrogen and phosphate pollution harms aquatic life by spurring the growth of algal blooms.

2011 saw the biggest such toxic algal bloom on record but it is likely to be surpassed in coming years, thanks to climate change among other factors

Others were cloaked in harmful algal growth.

According to a small study, the bioavailability of DHA from algal oil is equivalent to that from cooked salmon [38].

Ryan's research focuses on algal blooms, the rapid and dense growths of plankton that can starve marine organisms of oxygen and cause hypothermia in seabirds.

«This major investment will ensure that Auburn and Owasco residents continue to have access to clean drinking water and will prevent harmful algal toxins from contaminating the water supply,» Cuomo said.

Do we know whether or not BMAA contamination exists with algal oil supplements, in general in by specific brand?

Researchers involved in photosynthesizing algae also believe the region could become a hub for algal fuels.

Some of the algae, or phytoplankton, manufacture saxitoxin, a poison so devastating it is the underlying cause of paralytic shellfish poisoning, an often - lethal reaction to shellfish that are storing toxic algal cells.

With this methodology, the factors most often mentioned as risks of negative or unintended consequences are a.) employing it too near coastal zones afflicted with toxic algal species, and b.) pushing beyond literal «restoration» activities to seed unprecedented concentrations of new plankton growth.

«Study finds source of toxic green algal blooms and the results stink.»

In August 2014, toxins from algal blooms in Lake Erie shut down the city of Toledo, Ohio's water supply, leaving half a million residents without potable water for more than two days.

These warming spikes could be due to methane hydrate releases, or to global eutrophication caused by a hyperactive hydrological cycle, which might cause algal blooms on a global scale.

This will reveal the potential of algae in a CO2 capture, best applications for algal biomass and how well algae could be grown in industrial waste water.

A supplement called life «sDHA (TM) is a sustainable and vegetarian source of algal DHA omega 3.

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And poisonous tides caused by algal blooms make eating shellfish dicey at times as well as causing mass die - offs of fish, birds and even sea - going mammals.

A seemingly perpetual Harmful Algal Bloom off the Gulf coast of Florida has killed over 240 manatees, a senseless tragedy for this threatened species.

AlgaVia ™ Whole Algal Flour is a lipid powder that enables indulgent products without compromising on nutrition.

And changes in algal communities led to a rise in midges and blackflies — favored foods of trout — resulting in a near tripling of non-native rainbow trout numbers.

Professor Don Levitan, chair of the Department of Biological Science, writes in the latest issue of Marine Ecology Progress Series that bleaching — a process where high water temperatures or UV light stresses the coral to the point where it loses its symbiotic algal partner that provides the coral with color — is also affecting the long - term fertility of the coral.

Someone would have to provide expertise in handling viruses — specifically, a virus to serve as a vector, or Trojan horse, to cart algal genes into mammalian cells.

And just as increased algal productivity at sea increases the emission of sulfur gases to the atmosphere, ultimately leading to more and brighter clouds over the world's oceans, so too do CO2 - induced increases in terrestrial plant productivity lead to enhanced emissions of various sulfur gases over land, where they likewise ultimately cool the planet.

For example, gaseous carbon dioxide has been bubbled directly into algal cultivation systems.

So when algal populations explode, say, because of warming water, domoic acid concentrations increase in these animals to a point that they affect the sea lions that feast on them.

At this stage, I would put algal biodiesel in the same category as cellulosic ethanol: Technically feasible, sustainable, but it may not be commercially feasible.

FEELING GREEN Freshwater bodies on more than a third of Earth's land area (excluding Antarctica) are maxed out on phosphorus, which can help create algal blooms such as this one.

TerraVia, a plant - based food, nutrition and specialty ingredients company, announced that Health Canada issued an approval for its Whole Algal Protein ingredient for food use in Canada.

Amid lofty prices for crude oil and rising concerns about global warming, companies are racing to make algal fats into oils that can be turned into fuels.

In addition to housing one - fifth of your daily essential nutrients, each bottle contains algal oil for energy and soy protein to aid in digestion.

Along gradients of normal pH (8.1 — 8.2) to lowered pH (mean 7.8 — 7.9, minimum 7.4 — 7.5), typical rocky shore communities with abundant calcareous organisms shifted to communities lacking scleractinian corals with significant reductions in sea urchin and coralline algal abundance.

The root cause of the problem lies mainly in agricultural runoff that contains phosphorus, which encourages algal growth.

Natural ingredients like algal extracts, cocoa butter, or wheat germ oil are examples.

That melt might spur even more algal growth, starting a feedback loop of accelerated melting, scientists have proposed.

The problem: Overflow and sprayed waste can find their way into local wetlands, where fecal matter triggers algal blooms that choke out other aquatic life.

Polymerized hydrocarbon «chemo - fossils» found in the gold ores... [probably] were originally part of a rich bacterial and algal life in the Witwatersrand basin.

The calcite corals first achieved algal symbiosis and came into being 550 million years ago (you are too young to remember) during the Cambrian era, when atmospheric CO2 concentration was 25 times what it is today.

Sweeney and colleagues hope to artificially mimic the arrangement for growing algal biofuels.

Uthicke et al. opine that it was because (6) «increased algal productivity under increased pCO2 [Ed: increasing water acidification] provided more food at the vent, resulting in higher growth rates.»

Providing higher flows are unlikely to have a significant effect on large - scale algal blooms — the volumes and flows required to disperse blooms are often beyond what can be delivered in regulated systems.