Sentences with phrase «damages ocean ecosystems»

Marine debris damages ocean ecosystems, wildlife, and coastal economies.

It's probably more about doing it in the best possible way, that doesn't damage the ocean ecosystem.

Not exact matches

Commercial fishing has damaged the ocean's ecosystem to such an extent that large fish populations are only 10 per cent as large as they were in the 1950s.

Commercial overfishing damages fish populations, marine habitats and ecosystems — consequences that also affect people who depend on the ocean for food and work.

Mining on the ocean floor could do irreversible damage to deep - sea ecosystems, says a new study of seabed mining proposals around the world.

«As we learn more about deep sea ecosystems and the role of oceans in mitigating climate change, it seems wise to take precautions to avoid damage that could have long - lasting and unforeseen consequences.»

We know that air pollution seriously damages human health and terrestrial ecosystems but this «new» source of soluble iron can potentially increase the amount of carbon dioxide stored in the oceans and, thus, inadvertently offset global warming.»

Brine is denser than seawater and therefore sinks to the ocean bottom and can damage the ecosystem.

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

Environmental advocacy groups such as Greenpeace have argued that seabed mining should not be permitted in most of the world's oceans because of the potential for damage to deepsea ecosystems.

Chemical fertilizers are running off the fields into water systems and oceans where they generate damaging blooms of oxygen - depleting microorganisms that disrupt ecosystems and kill fish.

We won't be able to run, we won't be able to hide from that problem because it's having a very profound effect on ocean ecosystems everywhere and will have very long lasting and damaging consequences unless we get that under control.

The project at the University of Texas at Austin will develop conceptual and numerical models to analyze conditions under which gas will be expelled from existing marine accumulations of gas hydrate into the ocean, which could potentially have a damaging effect to the ecosystem.

Warmer ocean water damages coral reefs, threatens marine ecosystems, and disrupts global fisheries.

The kind of things I'm referring to are more frequent and intense heatwaves, flooding and droughts, sea level rise and its associated impacts, glacier melt, damage to sensitive ecosystems, increased tropical cyclone activity, increased hurricane strength, ocean acidification.

Beyond health, additional impacts of emissions such as ocean acidification, biodiversity loss, ecosystem impacts of nitrogen deposition, and changes in visibility are omitted, suggesting that these damages are conservative and leaving ample opportunities to further improve the comprehensiveness of social cost metrics.

As a consequence, unbridled anthropogenic GHG emissions could affect the oceans» CO2 - uptake capacities and might damage entire marine ecosystems.