Sentences with phrase «algal blooms threaten»

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.

At 11 a.m., Toxics Targeting Inc. holds a news conference releasing photos of algal blooms threatening the sources of public drinking water for residents of Syracuse, Auburn, Rochester, Ithaca and other communities across New York, state Capitol, third floor, adjoining to the LCA Press Room, Albany.

Not exact matches

New York's new budget sets aside money to combat harmful algal blooms that have closed some of the state's lakes and threatened the municipalities that use them for drinking water.

Mr. Bellone sent a letter to the congressional delegation on Tuesday, one day after announcing the completion of the first comprehensive integrated strategy to guide the work of multiple levels of government, academia, and scientists to address increasingly frequent algal blooms that have plagued marine waters on Long Island, threatening the environment and economy.

Cuomo yesterday kicked off the first in a series of four summits addressing upstate lakes and other waterways threatened by harmful algal blooms, which can affect water quality and diminish recreational opportunities and tourism.

Protecting New York's Lakes from harmful algal blooms - a $ 65M investment to combat algal blooms that threaten recreational use of lakes and drinking water 13.

Nutrients would pour down off the increasingly denuded land into the sea, triggering massive algal blooms, which would exhaust the water of oxygen and threaten fish.

The process, known as nitrogen deposition, can do great damage to ecosystems, causing soil acidification, fertilizing harmful algal blooms and threatening biodiversity, says Zhang.

«So fish boldness may play an important role in large - scale algal blooms that result from nutrient pollution and threaten coral reefs worldwide.»

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As Christine McEntee, president of the American Geophysical Union, explained here, NASA's Earth programs have been used for things like: confronting the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, monitoring dangerous algal blooms that threaten coastal communities, assessing air quality and water availability, predicting floods, responding to earthquakes, and tracking tornadoes and hurricanes.