Sentences with phrase «bodies of water»

But the various bodies of water that make up this total ocean area have their own unique characteristics and range in size from the sprawling Pacific to the self - contained Mediterranean.

This was in 1791, nearly two centuries before modern study identified an urgent need to restore the lake and bodies of water like it — a movement that has transformed Lake George into one of the world's «smartest» lakes as part of a project named for Jefferson.

Isolated bodies of water can become extra salty, or hypersaline, through evaporation.

All bodies of water can experience seiches.

Limaye and colleagues now suggest the possibility these patches could be comparable to algae blooms that can be found on Earth's bodies of water.

For instance, during extreme weather events, sewage pipes overflow with added storm water runoff, resulting in wastewater dumping into local bodies of water or the ocean.

The work of Dr. Rubio Godoy contemplates basic research in natural bodies of water where fish are captured and recognized or described when containing parasites; this is important because fish farms often receive water from these water bodies, and wild fish can serve as a source of parasites for farmed fish, or vice versa.

Because these bodies of water are sites where photosynthesis occurs, they also act as carbon stores.

Determining which fish are living in various bodies of water can be a daunting task for scientists studying those populations.

By comparing historical changes in 12 bodies of water worldwide, a new study highlights the extent to which civilization's advance has led to ecological degradation.

The bodies of water, roughly eight and five square kilometres respectively, are not connected to any marine sources or surface meltwater.

The Dahl's Toad - headed Turtle lives in small bodies of water, streams, and small aquifers.

Other researchers and government organizations elsewhere in the world are also turning to sensors to learn more about the bodies of water in their care.

The new study is the first to distinguish between bodies of water with low and high levels of oxygen.

The heat from those eruptions would have melted massive amounts of ice to form englacial lakes — bodies of water that form within glaciers like liquid bubbles in a half - frozen ice cube.

Heavily acidic conditions also prompt the leaching of toxic metals into nearby bodies of water.

Irena Salina, director of the award - winning documentary film, FLOW, about the world's dwindling water supplies, thinks it can be done if world leaders, international banks, the United Nations and other governmental organizations establish cooperative agreements for the use of bodies of water, including groundwater, and economic mechanisms to make sure those who need access to water can get it.

Large, densely populated urban areas are highly susceptible to exhausting heat waves exacerbated by the «heat island» effect in which once permeable, cooling surfaces like open land, bodies of water and vegetation have been replaced with surfaces that capture and retain heat like asphalt and concrete.

Although algae are always present in natural bodies of water like oceans and rivers, a few types can produce toxins that can seriously harm people, animals, fish, and other parts of the ecosystem.

Of course: Neutrino detectors that use natural bodies of water or ice can see only those neutrinos that come through the Earth, so they have to look upside down — and from that vantage, the center of the Milky Way never comes into view at the South Pole.

It was another Russian researcher, Moisey Alexandrovich Markov, a «poet» of astroparticle physics, who suggested using natural bodies of water as neutrino detectors.

Mussels are the natural treatment plants of bodies of water and, therefore, just as important as bees.

Well, from 350 km (~ 220 miles) up civilization looks like clusters of lights nestled in river valleys and practically overflowing into the oceans or other bodies of water.

Andresen worries that the geomorphology of the region's landscape will change if these small bodies of water continue to shrink.

For this reason nuclear power plants are typically sited near large bodies of water, often seas or estuaries.

As the contaminated water flows into larger and larger bodies of water, it will become increasingly diluted.

Nutrient pollution in bodies of water harms human health and the economy.

During the Triassic, the world's continents were locked together in a single supercontinent called Pangaea, allowing animals to roam unimpeded by large bodies of water.

Nutrient pollution in bodies of water — too much nitrogen or phosphorous, for example — harms human health and the economy.

Their research demonstrates eDNA could be a promising, non-invasive method to screen lakes and other bodies of water for the presence of Bd.

Because Landsat satellites have been gathering visual information for four decades, we can now view landscapes before, during, and after fires and other natural disasters, and see bodies of water shift their shapes as water levels rise and fall, and watch cities grow.

Small bodies of water like hot springs may have been more conducive to the formation of life because they can evaporate and concentrate the building blocks of life, says Djokic.

Henry suggests that A. sediba may have lived in small woodlands that lined bodies of water in the savannah.

It is unclear just how much it will cost to tap into energy from large bodies of water.

Smaller bodies of water such as lakes might make ranching more feasible and small communities could find it easier to reach a consensus, he says.

Since prehistoric times people have lived by the seas and rivers for the access to cheap and quick transportation and access to food sources and trade; without human populations near natural bodies of water, there would be no concern for floods.

The order, which the White House did not immediately make public, will kick off what will likely be a lengthy process to undo the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 2015 to clarify which bodies of water are covered by the Clean Water Act.

While cyclones on Earth are fueled by the heat and moisture of the oceans, no such bodies of water exist on Saturn.

Unlike hurricanes, which develop over bodies of water, tornadoes tend to incubate over land (water spouts being the exception).

Potential habitability and a lush world of liquid bodies of water and a thick atmosphere are two very different things.

But researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, members of the PlanetSolar Deepwater expedition, have now succeeded in linking the composition of marine biological aerosols — and therefore their influence on the climate — to that of bodies of water under them within the Atlantic Ocean, thereby paving the way to an indirect study of these aerosols through water analysis.

The freshwater bivalves of the family Unionidae — the family to which native mussels belong in the bodies of water studied — declined sharply after the Dreissena invasion.

During the expedition, scientists carried out analysis of the salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen and the microalgae contained in the various bodies of water in the Atlantic, and then compared this data with that obtained by the Biobox.

Nitrogen is an important nutrient for crops and a key ingredient in fertilizer, but nitrogen often washes away into rivers and other bodies of water where it is detrimental to aquatic ecosystems.

The biological fraction of aerosols is therefore linked to the history of biological activity of bodies of water close to the surface.

In yellow, warmer bodies of water where biological activty is weaker.

Scientists have long known that nitrate - loaded fertilizers run off from farms and city streets into bodies of water, sometimes creating giant «dead zones» hundreds of miles downstream.

Regulations on the amount of nitrate that may be released vary by state, but excess nitrate contributes to algal blooms in natural bodies of water, depleting oxygen levels for aquatic organisms.

Excess nitrogen fertilizers from the field can flow into bodies of water.

The effort, a collaboration between the World Bank and the oil - rich Kazakh government, aims to reverse the decades of desiccation that have shriveled one of the world's biggest inland bodies of water.