Sentences with phrase «entering marine waters»

Plastic isn't made to pollute the ocean, but there are up to 13 million tons of plastic entering marine waters each year.

Not exact matches

The conditions require that sediment entering the marine park be reduced by 150 percent over the long term — a «net benefit» to water quality — and that $ 81 million be contributed to reef conservation programmes and specific measures observed to protect marine flora and fauna.

Excess carbon dioxide enters the ocean, reacts with water, decreases ocean pH and lowers carbonate ion concentrations, making waters more corrosive to marine species that need carbonate ions and dissolved calcium to build and maintain healthy shells and skeletons.

To better understand this treacherous stream of water — and its role in the Southern Hemisphere's marine biodiversity — researchers guided autonomous underwater vehicles known as Seagliders (one shown here entering the water) through the Agulhas Current for the first time.

Plastics can enter into the marine environment a number of ways: through ineffective or improper waste management, intentional or accidental dumping and littering on shorelines or at sea, or through storm water runoff.

«Identifying the threads that connect these parasites from wild and domestic land animals to marine mammals helps us to see ways that those threads might be cut... by, for example, managing feral cat and opossum populations, reducing run - off from urban areas near the coast, monitoring water quality and controlling erosion to prevent parasites from entering the marine food chain.»

This provides room, comfort and ease for all snorkellers and divers to enter the water for marine activities.

You'll need to purchase a marine park tag before entering the water.

A thorough safety briefing is conducted and an informative reef ecology lecture is given on the beach, then you will enter the water for the guided snorkelling tour with the marine biologist guide.

Based on GRACE satellite gravity estimates (illustrated in the graph below on the left) and hydrographic measurements (graph on right), Greenland's lost ice has correlated best with the pulses of warm Atlantic water that entered into the Irminger Current that flows to the west around Greenland, delivering relatively warm water to the base of Greenland's marine terminating glaciers.

«Plastic particles smaller than 5 mm pose a massive environmental and human health risk when they enter our waterways,» said Abby Barrows, a marine research scientist with Adventure Scientists and College of the Atlantic, who is featured in the film and has analyzed thousands of water samples from around the world for microplastics.