Sentences with phrase «because of algae»

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A city spokesman on Friday said there was no threat to the drinking water «at this time» because the algae blooms were near the shore and the intake pipes are out toward the middle of the lake.

With such water, if you want to treat it for drinking, you must also take into consideration the removal of the algae because algae toxins can cause kidney, liver, nervous system and heart problems.

Environmentalists and lake experts say that without quick action to address the rapidly declining lake conditions because of invasive weeds and algae, the county could likely face a potential property value crash and a devastating loss of summertime tourism.

I mean, you had young people who were converting algae into sustainable biofuels — that was one of my favorites, because the young lady, she kept the algae under her bed.»

Because they had been collecting at the site for two years, and continued collecting after this event, the researchers were able to compare the communities of symbiotic algae before, during and after bleaching.

Because similar plastic beads straight from the manufacturer don't emit DMS, it's likely that the scent comes from algae growing on the surface of the beads and from DMS that they adsorb via exposure to seawater.

The researchers found that warm waters and algae — both of which have become more frequent over the years — tended to precede bird deaths, likely because they promoted the growth of botulism toxin - producing bacteria.

Midwesterners, for example, might use more cellulosic waste - based green fuel because of their abundance of farm land, while Southwesterners use algae - based green fuel.

«But because we have complete control of genetics now, we have all the technology to make [algae into] some kind of fancy photosynthetic machine.»

Diatoms [a type of shelled algae] are big carbon sinkers because of their stony shells and powered buoyancy.

Researchers have begun developing biofilm reactors to grow the algae, but the reactors aren't efficient because of pH or temperature variations or a limited supply of carbon dioxide gas.

Algae is a desirable biofuel source because it doesn't compete with other plants that serve as sources of food.

But they had lacked evidence that clearly linked sick animals to blooms, in part because the algae often vanish quickly, leaving little trace of their presence.

Researchers would like to produce algae efficiently because of its potential environmental benefits.

This, she says, means that it might prove possible to seed nuclear waste, or a spill of radioactive material, with barium to encourage the algae to grab the strontium — easy to do, she says, because «it would only be a small amount» of barium.

The approach ranked as the study's least viable strategy, in part because less than a quarter of the algae could be expected to eventually sink to the bottom of the ocean, which would be the only way that carbon would be sequestered for a long period of time.

Chlorarachniophytes are particularly interesting study objects, because these microbes still retain some of the green alga's nucleus, suggesting that the process of secondary endosymbiosis is still ongoing.

Because algae need light for photosynthesis, Gard deduced that when they were alive the ice cover must have cleared for at least part of the summer.

Sometimes these fish farming operations simply reveal the presence of toxic algae that were always present, but never noticed because there was not a fisheries resource there to poison.

«We were very much against genetic manipulation for this project, because we were going to be generating such very large quantities of algae,» he remarks.

Because the flue gas and water enter the bioreactor at a toasty 55 degrees Celsius, Bayless needed a hardy species of algae.

Because algae are the base of the marine food chain, the acid gets transferred to other animals, including shellfish.

Mountaineers trekking through snow on every continent besides Africa have reported seeing Chlamydomonas nivalis — sometimes called watermelon algae because of its color and faint fruity scent.

Because the smaller fish shifted to shallow waters where bass threaten them less, he explains, the algae that inhabit the more open waters of the lake were free of their predators and their populations fluctuate more.

Paramecium bursaria appears green under a microscope because each cell hosts hundreds of chlorella algae that supply the paramecium with sugar and oxygen in exchange for nitrogen and phosphorus.

«We think the algae weren't able to use up that iron because they had less of other important nutrients,» Costa said.

Because the algae take in three times the CO2 to produce a single ton of ethylene, the process acts as a carbon sink.

«The reason the corals become bright white is because most of their color is coming from these algae,» says Kline.

One of my favorites is chlorella (cracked wall algae) because it's particularly adept at binding up heavy metals and can be used safely for long periods of time.

Spirulina is a blue green micro algae considered a «superfood» because of its nutrient profile.

It is virtually impossible to obtain the recommended daily amount of astaxanthin from diet alone because there are only two prime sources: microalgae and sea creatures that consume the algae (such as salmon, shellfish, and krill).

Dave Asprey: Yeah, because you ate some kind of grain that was desiccated with it, or because it's in your water, because they allow it to be dumped into the river to get rid of algae.

Because they are high in antioxidants, as well as blue - green algae like chlorella, they help remove these toxins, which build up in our bodies over the course of our entire life.

Of the three main types of algae, spirulina is said to be the easiest to digest and absorb, because its cell walls are composed of mucopolysaccharides rather than indigestible cellulosOf the three main types of algae, spirulina is said to be the easiest to digest and absorb, because its cell walls are composed of mucopolysaccharides rather than indigestible cellulosof algae, spirulina is said to be the easiest to digest and absorb, because its cell walls are composed of mucopolysaccharides rather than indigestible cellulosof mucopolysaccharides rather than indigestible cellulose.

Fatty, cold water fish are a good source of DHA / EPA, but only because at the bottom of their food chain are algae like the golden algae that produce it.

Readers are notified that this is not a blanket endorsement of her work, because she sells health frauds, such as pond scum (algae) as a healthy food item for human beings.

Since many people don't eat enough greens, or for those of you following Keto or Paleo diets, taking algae daily is very important because it ensures you get more chlorophyll into your diet to help detox your body and protect your health!

Because research shows that algae has the densest nutritional profile of any food in the world so it helps your body and your immune system to work efficiently.

Ponds are also prone to forming algae, which may be toxic by itself or because of the chemicals added to destroy it.

Their main food source, which is algae, grows in abundance here because Kauai is one of the wettest spots on earth.

Green Bowl Beach is famous for its algae - covered rocks, although it's a bit hard to find because of the tricky turns tourists have to take down a few tiny roads, and visitors also need to descend hundreds of concrete steps before they can sink their feet into the sand, and feel the cool sea breeze, or swim in its calm, refreshing waters.

The Great Mayan Reef, which is the second biggest coral reefs in the world, is actually a great site because of the diversity of fish, algae, corals and other sea animals that can be found living in this enormous coral reef.

The algae may have initially spread across the western side of the lake because of windy weather, but calm weather and warm temperatures after the storm allowed green scum to build on the surface... The bloom now covers much of the western half of the lake.

This is because you can get far more energy from crops grown in the tropics, on the same size of land, and for the same inputs (biodiesel from algae would be different, but is only at the R&D stage).

I mean, you had young people who were converting algae into sustainable biofuels — that was one of my favorites because the young lady had — she kept the algae under her bed — and she had a whole lab, which meant that she had really supportive parents.

Because, in order to really make a dent in climate change and issues with peak oil, it's going to take both conservation and nifty new technologies like acres of algae to save our hides.

That's bad news for the climate, because the ocean is responsible for absorbing at least one quarter of the CO2 that humans load into the air through fossil fuel burning and other activities — and it is the action of foraminifera and other tiny shell - building animals, along with plants like algae that lock it away safely for millennia.

(Some people have suggested replacing lost sea ice with artificial floes, but this would be unlikely to work because algae — the basis of the entire food chain that ultimately provides seals for the bears — grows only on real ice.)

Algae is extremely attractive as a natural resource for biofuel production because of its tremendous efficiency at conversion of sunlight into a usable biofuel, up to 30 times more energy per acre than terrestrial crops.