Sentences with phrase «as agricultural runoff»

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That devastation could spread in the future, as rising temperatures and agricultural runoff enlarge oxygen - poor dead zones in the world's oceans.

Agricultural runoff enriches the water further, as do the organic contributions from urban effluent, including that from Chicago's sewage system.

Investigators have found that H. azteca collected from sites influenced by agricultural / urban runoff are as much as 2 - times less sensitive to pyrethroid insecticides than lab - grown H. azteca.

Marginal areas are often currently set aside for conservation, both as a means to provide a habitat for wildlife as well as a way to protect it from agricultural runoff into waterways.

Although the Clean Water Act strictly regulated point - source pollution, mandating sewage treatment standards, it did not similarly restrict more diffuse sources, such as nutrients delivered by agricultural and suburban runoff.

Her groundbreaking, remediative sculptural environments were designed as ecological filters to cleanse gray water, urban storm water and agricultural runoff.

With climate - related challenges such as unusually high rainfall being compounded by the impact of human activities such as boating, agricultural runoff, tourism, aquaculture, ports, energy projects and housing, the scientists argue that we need broad and coordinated action to stem the destruction.

A handful of the 166 dead zones have since bounced back through improved management of sewage and agricultural runoff, but as fertilizer use and factory farming increase, we are creating dead zones faster than nature can recover.

The most egregious space likely arises when it comes to «externalities» of pollution and environmental impacts: such as diseases from chemical industrial plant waste, damaged ecosystems from agricultural runoff, and leeching chemicals from trash threatening drinking water.