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Of far greater concern than corals in particular is the ocean food chain in general, because while acidification will probably result in more oceanic dead zones as the amount of CO2 goes up and the amount of oxygen falls, if you kill off the plankton and pteropods that use carbonate to make their shells, then you kill off the food supply for the vast majority of higher organisms (like mollusks, fish, and even marine mammals).

Scientists have long known that increasing ocean temperatures can lead to more ocean dead zones as warmer water holds less oxygen.

The World Resources Institute lists 55 dead zones as improving.

Scientists have identified a dead zone as large as Florida in the Gulf of Oman, which connects the Arabian Sea to the Persian Gulf.

Not exact matches

We continue to pour on the nitrogen, even as scientists report the existence of 50 «dead zones» where nitrogen has flowed from fields to water, and resulted in an excess of plant growth, a depletion of oxygen and the extinction of life.

«Walt Disney's evil twin,» John Leonard called King, and sure enough the psychic powers that Johnny Smith acquires in The Dead Zone carry him to a moment «as American as The Wonderful World of Disney... the politician and the man in the high place with a gun.»

I will wager that as he contemplates that choice in the dead of night, he will long for the simple days when he campaigned for a nuclear - free zone in the Middle East, with no action, decision or deadline ever to trouble him.

Yet in waters from the Sea of Japan (aka East Sea) to the Black Sea, jellies today are thriving as many of their marine vertebrate and invertebrate competitors are eliminated by overfishing, dead zones and other human impacts.

That devastation could spread in the future, as rising temperatures and agricultural runoff enlarge oxygen - poor dead zones in the world's oceans.

We can thank them for oxygen in the atmosphere, oil in the lithosphere as well as dead zones in the oceans and now even a dead horse in France.

Alarmed, the European Union has mandated the creation of a buffer zone just north of the Pugliese town of Lecce, essentially writing off everything south of a line that extends between the Ionian and Adriatic seas as a dead zone.

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.

As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, a «dead zone» is also having its annual growth spurt.

NOAA - supported scientists found a large Gulf of Mexico oxygen - free or hypoxic «dead» zone, but not as large as had been predicted.

The sponge eluded scientists for 20 years because it lives in what researchers refer to as «the dead zone,» a relatively unpopulated depth of the Caribbean.

A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that land use in the watersheds from which this «dissolved organic matter» originates has important implications for Bay water quality, with the organic carbon in runoff from urbanized or heavily farmed landscapes more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing energy to fuel low - oxygen «dead zones» in coastal waters.

The organization's researchers wrote algorithms that use signals from the collars to automatically detect when an animal stops moving (indicating it may be dead), slows down (suggesting it may be injured) or heads toward a danger zone, such as an area known for rampant poaching.

Burger hopes his research can apply to farmers and scientists facing similar challenges as far away as Chesapeake Bay and the Mississippi River Basin, where there are enormous dead zones.

The resin is liquefied — the dead zone — as long as it's in contact with oxygen.

Demonstrating the link between the dead zone and nutrients from the Mississippi River, this annual forecast continues to provide guidance to federal and state agencies as they work on the 11 implementation actions outlined by the Task Force in 2008 for mitigating nutrient pollution.

Farmland runoff containing fertilizers and livestock waste is the main source of the nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients that cause the annual Chesapeake Bay hypoxic region, which is also known as a dead zone.

Less oxygen dissolved in the water is often referred to as a «dead zone» (in red above) because most marine life either dies, or, if they are mobile such as fish, leave the area.

Although oxygen depletion occurs naturally in some parts of the ocean, such as fjords and deep basins, the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone is caused by humans.

«While its footprint wasn't as large as we predicted,» she admits, the 2011 Gulf dead zone «was still very large.»

Dead zones used to develop here that covered an area as large as Switzerland.

Known as the «sulfur pearl of Namibia,» this anaerobic species digests organic matter under low - oxygen (or no - oxygen) conditions that are caused by high rates of phytoplankton growth in the Benguela upwelling zone, and the subsequent decay of large masses of dead phytoplankton that have fallen to the seafloor.

Oxygen - depleted «dead zones» often form in the northern Gulf of Mexico due to nutrient - rich runoff from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers, which are seen here as tan and greenish - brown plumes visible from the International Space Station in 2012.

Right now we're in a bit of a dead zone between the blockbuster summer season and awards season, but that's going to change once Snowden arrives in the middle of September as we start to move into October.

Relatively artless when compared to several other King adaptations around the time (Brian De Palma's Carrie, Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, David Cronenberg's The Dead Zone) or even with Carpenter's previous picture (1982's career - best The Thing), the film still delivers the goods as entertainment, thanks to committed performances from the cast and some nifty effects work.

Options are available to adjust the steering sensitivity and dead zone of the steering as well.

The master of the specific subgenre called body horror and the man who put out such classics as Dead Ringers and Videodrome, the Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg seemingly stepped out of his (dis) comfort zone and delivered one of the best movies of the first decade of this century when he made the film cleverly and multilayeredly called A History of Violence.

The scenes set in Willard's gothic home, shared with his demented crone of a mother (Jackie Burroughs, so memorable as Johnny's insane mother from The Dead Zone), however, are shot in deep shadow and saturated browns à la Conrad Hall.

When: February 6th Why: It's never a good sign when a movie gets postponed, especially one as big as «Jupiter Ascending,» but what really set off alarm bells was the decision to move it from a prime summer release date to the dead zone of February.

Many see January and February as a dead zone of sorts for movie releases and for the most part, they are right.

Like, you're in that dead zone between morning and afternoon when the photo agencies are loading up new content and you don't want to go front heavy, particularly today as I'm trying to pace out my posts for when I fly in a few hours and oh look, there's a Rachel Bilson story... I'd never lead with Rachel Bilson because, obviously.

But did you know he was offered Children of the Corn, The Dead Zone and The Mangler as well?

Now, for the very first time, The Dead Zone will also be available to King fans as an audiobook.

The next expansion / update for Destiny looks set to feature a heap of the stuff cut from earlier content such as a new area on Earth called the «European Dead Zone», a new public space on Mars and a new «planet» Europa.

«We've raised the question of quality oversight of the program as sort of a dead zone, a blind spot,» said Ed Davies, interim executive director of the D.C. Children and Youth Investment Trust Corp. «Currently, we don't have that authority.

The interim executive director of the program at that time even admitted that «quality oversight of the program as sort of a dead zone, a blind spot.»

Indeed, the Administrator itself, has been quoted as saying that quality control is «a dead zone, a blind spot» of the program.

What was once terrifying is now quite acceptable, and that's about as much as you can hope for from a car with the dimensions and mechanical layout of the latest G. Before, you'd get a mix of remoteness, inconsistency and imprecision in the rack, but once through an unresponsive dead zone around the straight ahead the steering can be used to plot a relatively reliable course from corner to corner.

As I work in Manhattan, signal is normally weak in the buildings and my desk happens to be in a dead zone that drains the life...

It's described on the PlayStation blog as «a co-op Strike set atop and within a broken dam in the European Dead Zone,» that has you «stem the tide of Taken flowing into the European Dead Zone from beneath the waves.»

One element that is also quite interesting is that switching between your four potential weapons whilst very direct, as it lacks the scrolling dead zone selection seen in the earlier Armored Core games, each weapon has a very nice mechanical animation for its selection.

General fixes • Significant improvements to the Squad Join interface • Removed FIND ME A SQUAD option • Allow players to join empty Squads alone, thus having 1/4 Squad members • Change order of options to LEAVE SQUAD, INV A FRIEND, SWITCH TEAM • Disable Privacy flag when 1 man Squad • Reset Privacy flag from Private to Public when Squad drops to 1 player • All occupied Squads will now show up colored blue on the Squad selection screen • Players who choose not to join Squads will also show up as Blue in the «Not in a Squad» line • Squads that are currently empty will display as white — if you wish to join an empty Squad, you can choose the first one marked with white text • Added round duration and ticket summary at end of round screen • Fixed sound for when climbing ladders • Fixed and issue with some weapons» sounds in first person view • Fixed a swim sound loop error • You should no longer be able to damage a friendly vehicle when sitting in an open position • Grenades now drop to ground if you get killed while attempting to throw it • Spawn protection now should work in Conquest so you no longer should spawn too close to enemies • You should no longer spawn too close to enemies in TDM and SQDM • Fix for missing input restriction during intro movie, causing players to potentially fall and die while watching movie if moving controller (or having a controller with a bad stick zone) • Combat areas on Kharg Island in Rush mode tweaked in order to disallow defenders to access the carrier ship after first base is taken and being able to enter the AA gun • Fixed a problem with revived players not being able to get suppressed • Fixed a problem with the camera when being revived in co-op • Spotting VO now plays when spotting from MAV / EOD bot • Fixed several issues regarding the kill card, including showing wrong weapons used for the kill • Fixed that sometimes you would be stuck on a black screen when kicked from server • Fixed so when a team captures two flags at the same time, the UI does not show wrong owner of the flag • Fixed a problem where the capture progress bar was shown as friendly when the enemy was capturing • Fixed a problem with the bipod deploy sound • Fixed a problem that you could be spawned in with no weapons after being killed while using the EOD bot • Fixed problems with health bars not displaying health properly when using EOD bots • Fixed a problem with flickering name tags • Fixed a problem where you could damage friendly helicopters • Fixed a problem where you could get stuck in the co-op menu when attempting to join the session twice • You should now be able to spot explosives • You should no longer spawn in home base if your selected spawn point is disabled while waiting to spawn (e.g. if your teammate dies right before you are about to spawn) • Damage from bullets will now continue to cause damage even after the firing user is dead • Fixed several client crashes • Fixed a problem where players could get stuck in the join queue • Fixed the repair icon on the minimal • Fixed a problem with changing camera on certain vehicles • Fixed a problem with the grenade indicator when in guided missile mode • Fixed a problem where the machine could hard lock when joining a public coop game • Fixed a problem where the headset attached icon would not show up in the UI • Fixed a problem with the falling antenna on Caspian Border.

The dead zones often found on the sticks was nowhere to be seen; even slight movements registered perfectly and the entire control scheme in general felt just sublime including touch screen weapon changing and Mantys control — a small droid unit you can take control of and fly around as recon, which serves as one of many Van - Guard systems you can unlock.

First, the game treats the borders as dead zones, so if you try to move your thumb outside of the main play area, you won't get a response.