Sentences with phrase «dead zones in»

With the NETGEAR Nighthawk AC1900 WiFi Range Extender (EX7000) you can wave goodbye to any dead zones in your house.

I can even set dead zones in the camera's field of view so that if it detects motion from, say, my TV or the tree behind my kitchen casting shadows into the living room, it won't send me false notifications.

Wi - Fi routers are getting more technical - and reliable - these days, but a recurring problem always seems to be dead zones in a large home.

Do you have wireless dead zones in your office or home where your signal weakens or even drops?

Altieri insists on delving deeper into the tropics, proposing that at least 370 dead zones in the tropics remain undocumented.

And while the general narrative has stayed the same — large nutrient inputs derived from fertilizer and pesticide run - off turn once vibrant ecosystems into barren, lifeless deserts — some new science suggests climate change will play a role in exacerbating an already dire situation, expanding the volume of dead zones in tropical oceans by up to 50 percent over the coming century.

The muddy brown color of the Long Island Sound and the growing dead zones in the Chesapeake Bay are the direct result of inadequate water filtration — a job that was once carried out by menhaden.

Around the world there are more than 400 current dead zones in oceans and lakes, where water contains so little oxygen that aquatic life can't survive.

The effects on the world around us are also negative — excessive use of water, sewage lagoons that pollute ground water and dead zones in the ocean from animal waste.

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.

Sewage causes the majority of dead zones in Africa and South America.

This has already been demonstrated in many ways, such as the massive dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico from the fertilizer run off from agriculture.

; 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.

; 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.

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....

I know many airports are improving their access to Wi - Fi, and a few around the world are actually implementing complimentary Wi - Fi in their terminals, but most are still dead zones in this regard.

Such threats can leave huge dead zones in the water and turn corals a ghostly white.

They learned to add chemicals, but never the consequences, like impacts on groundwater, rivers, and dead zones in the oceans.

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.

«It is important that we have excellent abilities to predict and control the largest dead zones in the United States.

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.

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.

Kerry further outlined the impacts of pollution from farm runoff, which causes algae blooms and dead zones in the oceans, the massive buildup of plastic waste, and illegal fishing.

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.

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

This Z - Wave plug is a great pick for people who are constantly frustrated by dead zones in their house.

The single largest number of dead zone reports came from the Hudson Valley (970) led by 597 dead zones in Sullivan County, according to the non-scientific study.

Scientists predict a bigger than average dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico this year.

Experts say such cuts could shrink the so - called dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, which becomes inhospitable to wildlife almost every summer.

The Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium reports that the dead zone in the Gulf is much smaller this year than expected.

NOAA's National Ocean Service has been funding monitoring and research for the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico since 1985 and currently oversees the NGOMEX program, the hypoxia research effort for the northern Gulf which is authorized by the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act.

The low - oxygen waters of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico result in smaller shrimp, and a spike in large shrimp prices.

A second NOAA - funded forecast, for the Chesapeake Bay, calls for a smaller than average dead zone in the nation's largest estuary.

Last year's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico was the fourth smallest on record due to drought conditions, covering an area of approximately 2,889 square miles, an area slightly larger than the state of Delaware.

A dead zone in the Chesapeake Bay also has shrunk in recent years, Magnien said, because of major advances in wastewater treatment, sediment and storm water controls, soil management practices, and more selective and precise applications of fertilizer.

NOAA's National Ocean Service has been funding investigations and forecast development for the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico since 1990, and oversees national hypoxia research programs which include the Chesapeake Bay and other affected bodies of water.

An extremely faithful adaptation of King's 1983 novel, Mary Lambert's Pet Sematary shares something of the spirit of The Dead Zone in that its soulful, straight - faced delivery of some ridiculous material pays off with a genuine sense of horror and sadness.

2 - inch dead zone in gas pedal.

They're built into the mouse pad and there's a giant dead zone in the middle that's not signposted at all — it takes a bit of getting used to.

The months between May and September are almost always a dead zone in terms of major video game launches, despite the fact that kids are home from school and adults are going on vacation.

Numerous times, I would find myself wanting to do just one more side mission, and clear one more Dead Zone in order to achieve that next satisfying level and the upgrade point awarded with it.

«The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico persists due to continued fertilizer runoff and animal waste from increased livestock production,» said Ms. Naylor, a professor of environmental Earth system science and senior fellow at Stanford's Woods Institute and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.

However, if one considers the enormous increase of reactive nitrogen in our biosphere, due to the use of synthesized fertilizer and the burning of fossil fuels, its impact is not part of the analysis, even tough this increase shows up in the eutrophication (nutrient enrichment) of open waters all over the world, resulting in excess algae, in some areas causing large algae blooms (as where they are going to hold the sailing regattas during the Olympics), red tides and dead zone, as the 8000 square mile dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.

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....

The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, believed to be the result of agricultural runoff, has expanded to 8800 square miles (NYT 7/16)(think New Jersey) and, why are we worrying about rich people hiring personal gardeners?

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.

Every year the topic of the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico seems to pop up on TreeHugger — most recently in a report which links expanded corn production to the increasing size of the zone.

Looking at water data for the past 60 years, scientists have determined that «the size of the dead zone in mid to late summer has decreased steadily since the late 1980s and that the duration... is closely linked each year to the amount of nutrients entering the bay.»

As Conservation Magazine highlights, new research tracking the dead zone in the bay — where the oxygen level in the water is so low that most life can not survive — shows that both size and duration have declined.

The dead zone in this otherwise lush mountain country meant one thing to Parrish: Gas drillers had been illegally dumping briny water mixed with chemicals, and the waste had killed everything from the rusty well head all the way downhill into a creek.