Sentences with phrase «creating dead zones»

With the green revolution technology of chemical inputs, runoff from agriculture farms entering oceans and creating dead zones — zero oxygen — like thousands of square kilometers in Gulf of Mexico.

Warming waters are decreasing oxygen in the oceans, creating dead zones for marine plants and animals.

Increased levels of nitrogen entering coastal seas from activities such as fertiliser use are also creating dead zones close to shore.

It is changing the composition of species in ecosystems, reducing soil fertility, depleting the ozone layer, intensifying climate change, and creating dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico and other near - coastal seas.

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.

Nutrient runoff may well be creating dead zones in coastal waters, but we can't just stop fertilizing our fields; global warming is a serious threat to coral reefs, but we can't just stop emitting greenhouse gases, and at this point it would probably be too late.

Less oxygen reaching the interior, meanwhile, a product of both this increased stratification and significant nutrient runoff from farms, creates dead zones, a massive threat to marine life.

The way manufacturers get around the problem of the wet is usually through creating a dead zone where the water will fall out of suspension, then the water is collected and allowed to drain through a tube out onto the ground.

There are ornaments that almost guarantee problems because they create dead zones, where water is trapped and may become anaerobic.

Or nutrients at the surface (except where human discharges have created dead zones, of course).

Eric Joens, a Bloom Township resident, cautioned that other wind farm projects have created dead zones — where cell service drops — north of Reading.

This creates a dead zone each summer in the Gulf that can reach the size of New Jersey.

Agricultural pesticide and industrial waste runoff from the Mississippi River spews into the Gulf constantly, creating a dead zone in which no seafood can survive.

A crappy router can bottleneck your speeds, create dead zones, and cost a lot of extra money in rental fees.

Not exact matches

Eero routers «talk» to one another to create a mesh network, blanketing your entire place in consistent, fast Wi - Fi instead of having dead zones and hot spots.

Unlike stand - alone routers that lose signal the farther you move away from them, mesh stations piggyback on one another to create a continuous wireless link throughout your home, minimizing the possibility of dead zones.

Some scientists are concerned that — if the pyrosomes die en masse — they could create a large «dead zone,» as their decaying bodies suck oxygen from the water.

The plankton that feed on the dust's minerals can bloom significantly, providing food for other ocean creatures, but an overgrown bloom can consume much of the dissolved oxygen in an area and create an anoxic dead zone.

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.

Eventually, the fertilizing effects of these nutrients in surface waters can fuel the growth of algae that ultimately suck most of the oxygen out of large patches of coastal waters, creating what are colloquially termed dead zones (see Limiting Dead Zondead zones (see Limiting Dead Zozones (see Limiting Dead ZonDead ZonesZones).

Continuous liquid interface production is achieved with an oxygen - permeable window below the ultraviolet image projection plane, which creates a «dead zone» (persistent liquid interface) where photopolymerization is inhibited between the window and the polymerizing part.

The project is of particular interest to Olson's group because of growing concern about polluted runoff creating oxygen - poor dead zones in the Great Lakes.

It was a misbegotten move, creating one of the world's worst environmental dead zones.

The plumes of oil and gas spreading from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, which have the potential to create a low - oxygen dead zone, have attracted intense scrutiny from researchers.

Massive releases of methane from arctic seafloors could create oxygen - poor dead zones, acidify the seas and disrupt ecosystems in broad parts of the northern oceans, new preliminary analyses suggest.

When the river reaches the Gulf of Mexico, the pollutants create a low oxygen «dead zone» covering over 5,000 square miles.

Profligate fertiliser use led to algal blooms and dead zones in waterways; excessive irrigation raised the level of salty groundwater creating saline soils, and pesticide overuse not only caused environmental damage, it back - fired causing pest resistance.

That process sucks up oxygen and creates low - oxygen «dead zones.»

The rest enters the water table, polluting local wells and running off into rivers, lakes and oceans, overloading them with nitrates that create «dead zones» in which aquatic life can not survive.

To create your own «dead zone», ensure you have a box around your cone filter (if that's what you're using).

The non linear nature of forcing is related more to positive feedbacks and changes that are still being studied, such as cyclic changes in moisture content and regional dispersion, the methane cycles in the ocean or the potential of methane clathrate / hydrate release, and of course the race to feed more people on a planet which will inevitably add more nitrous oxide to the atmosphere and create more dead zones in the oceans, droughts, floods, fires, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria....

The United States has trimmed excess fertilizer use since a peak in the 1990's, the scientists write, but runoff and releases from livestock operations still create big water problems, most notably the Gulf of Mexico «dead zone» resulting from nutrients washing from fields and livestock around the Mississippi River watershed.

; any large object in the oceans «creates... ecosystems,» but the fact is that we should be much more concerned about the several enormous dead zones in the oceans than our energy problems, the latter which can be solved by weaning ourselves off our oil addiction; the fact is that the single most common object in the oceans today is plastic; the fact is that 90 % of the game fish of the oceans is gone.

; any large object in the oceans «creates... ecosystems,» but the fact is that we should be much more concerned about the several enormous dead zones in the oceans than our energy problems, the latter which can be solved by weaning ourselves off our oil addiction; the fact is that the single most commen object in the oceans today is plastic; the fact is that 90 % of the game fish of the oceans is gone.

And excess nitrogen fertilizer applied to the fields of feed corn grown to satisfy the world's livestock runs off into streams and rivers, sometimes flowing to coastal waters where it creates large algal blooms and low - oxygen «dead zones» where fish can not survive.

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

Blooms also remove oxygen necessary for animal life from the water, creating massive «dead zones» — areas where the oxygen is so low that the water is inhospitable to life, suffocating large amounts of fish and crustaceans.

The dead zones were created in large areas of swirling water known as eddies, which form when two or more currents collide.

When water loses most of its oxygen, it creates areas referred to as «dead zones,» where most marine plants and animals can not survive.

When these organisms die and decay, they deplete oxygen levels, creating «dead zones» of hypoxic, or oxygen poor, water.

Every slice of cow pie has a bunch of nitrogen And phosphorus is the whipped cream It leaks from the silos and the fields and then Pollutes the rivers and streams Now all the fish are growing tumors Cause they drank too many hormones And oceanic algal bloomers Create anoxic dead zones

Then all the other creatures are deprived of oxygen and what we call a «dead zone» is created where animals suffocate and die.

Highly concentrated fish farms create tremendous amounts of organic pollution (feces and excess feed) that create «dead zones» in the surrounding waters.

Considering that in many areas, natural wetlands have decreased, creating these manmade buffers might be a possible answer to slowing the growth of dead zones, which is expected to increase with the effects of climate change.

But some algae and plankton blooms can turn dangerous, either through the production of chemical toxins or by severely depleting the oxygen supply in the ocean and creating «dead zones» that suffocate marine creatures.

Hypoxia, or low oxygen levels, can create large dead zones that snuff out marine life and threaten dozens to hundreds of coral reefs worldwide, according to researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute or STRI.