Sentences with phrase «although marine waters»

Absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere is another way oceans mitigate greenhouse gas impacts, although marine waters are growing increasingly acidic as a result.

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Although this amount of depletion has little impact on mobile marine life, scientists worry about anoxic effects down deep, where mixing with oxygen - rich surface waters is minimal.

Although the accommodations are not at par to other Southeast Asian destinations, you can now cruise through these stunning waters where you can feast your eyes on uninhabited islands, exotic marine life, and picture perfect views.

Although constituting just 4 % of the ocean, coral reefs are home to 25 % of all the marine species in the world, making the offshore waters of Belize an enormous living aquarium.

Although Lighthouse Reef is one of the smallest islands offshore of Belize, it is home to the Belize Blue Hole, a nearly perfectly circular body of deep azure water that was rated by famed marine biologist Jacques Cousteau as one of the top 10 diving spots on the planet.

Although the water is not always very clear here, the marine life is stunning and the scenery amazing.

I understand that the global warming on its own affects the churning up of nutrients, and the mixing of water — even without any changes to the THC at all (although a shut - down of the THC or even a slow - down would be absolutely disastrous for marine life).

Phytoplankton, which live close enough to the water's surface to perform photosynthesis — critical to maintaining oxygen in Earth's atmosphere — form the base of the marine food web.4 Although phytoplankton are microscopic, they can be seen from satellites when they grow in a concentrated area (bloom) on the ocean's surface.5 Zooplankton, which feed on phytoplankton, and bacterioplankton, which recycle nutrients in the water, make up the next levels of the web.4

However, most of the methane produced from dissociating marine hydrates will be consumed by anaerobic processes in the top few metres of sulphate - rich near - sea - floor sediments and all of the rest will be dissolved and oxidized in sea water and will not be released to the atmosphere as methane, although the dissolved CO2 will equilibrate with atmosphere after a few centuries.