Sentences with phrase «dead areas of the oceans»

What's not in this article like the dead areas of the oceans, the clear cut rain forests, the overcrowded cities, the CO2 infected atmosphere, the deteriorated ozone, the polluted rivers, the melting permafrost, and more and more just might make one wonder whether it is possible to convert all this to Paradise, or is Paradise just being lost forever.

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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.

Gage and Gordon take issue with claims by Rudall Blanchard Associates, Shell's consultants, that the deep ocean «supports a small range of species»; that deep - water fishing does not take place in the area; and that water currents at the site are what atmospheric meteorologists would call «dead calm».

The patch is in an area of ocean between California and Hawaii called the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre — a kind of swirling dead end for Pacific currents, which have been depositing floating plastic trash there for decades.

Areas of the coastal ocean where oxygen is low or absent in bottom waters, so - called dead zones, are expanding worldwide (Diaz and Rosenberg, 2008).

The thing is that for the World Ocean to rise any significant amount then it would need all the frozen fresh water to melt, and even though the fear mongers keep saying this is happening, its not, JP Lovecraft was the flag bearer of the CAGW movement, he coined the word Gaia, he said that mankind would only be able to breed in those areas of the warm arctic and Antarctic, the rest of us would be dead, he said that and many other scaremongering things but close to the end of his life then he recanted it all, he said that «enough time had passed had passed for the models to be proved correct, and that all that the passing of time had proved was that all the models were not correct» me I think that he did not want to die with his horses still hitched to this faulty wagon.

But other elements could potentially also contribute to a collapse: an accelerating extinction of animal and plant populations and species, which could lead to a loss of ecosystem services essential for human survival; land degradation and land - use change; a pole - to - pole spread of toxic compounds; ocean acidification and eutrophication (dead zones); worsening of some aspects of the epidemiological environment (factors that make human populations susceptible to infectious diseases); depletion of increasingly scarce resources [6,7], including especially groundwater, which is being overexploited in many key agricultural areas [8]; and resource wars [9].

Whereas some coastal dead zones could be recovered by control of fertilizer usage, expanded low - oxygen areas caused by global warming will remain for thousands of years to come, adversely affecting fisheries and ocean ecosystems far into the future.

The worst - case result is that mean ocean oxygen concentration falls to a low of about 68 % of pre-industrial levels in the next few millennia, while low - oxygen «dead zones» — which don't support fish or many other marine animals such as crabs and clams — spread nearly six-fold to cover 12.8 % of the sea surface area.

There are many issues with measurement of pH in ocean waters, some physical, like depth and area coverage, some chemical like what pH is, some a mixture like whether dead / live biota should be considered, or filtered out with how fine a filter.

More on Ocean Dead Zones: Above Average Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone Forecast by NOAA Scientists Ocean Dead Zones Increasing: 400 Oxygen - Deprived Areas Now Exist Crop Biodiversity a Cure for Ocean Dead Zones?

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Chalk it up to global warming: Global Warming - Caused Dead Zones Could Last Thousands of Years Danish scientists have found that because of unchecked global warming, low - oxygen areas of the ocean could increase 10 times or more.

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When they saw a massive coral reef die - off in the area in September 2010, the team suspected that a dead zone instead of warm or acidic ocean water could be the culprit.