Sentences with phrase «entire ocean life»

«The entire ocean life is just loaded with a series of contaminants, most of which have been released by human beings,» Payne said.

Not exact matches

And across all scales, from very small controlled studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the correlation is not entirely clear.

Topsoil and natural vegetation would ordinarily filter many of these pollutants out, but the impermeable pavement that covers much of the surface where these pollutants originate carries it right into storm drains and into streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean where it can poison marine life — which we might eat — as well as entire riparian or coastal ecosystems.

Ice - encrusted Europa is the most likely moon in the entire solar system to have harbored life, perhaps in oceans beneath the icy surface.

The huge increase of radiation and the strong stellar winds that will accompany the process of stellar inflation will destroy all life on Earth and evaporate the water in the oceans, before the entire planet is finally melted.

What we see as a mere light in the sea is a phenomenon occurring in nearly all the organisms living in the seas and oceans, from bacteria to large fish, and which impacts the behaviour and dynamics of the entire system.

By accumulating the understanding of the ecology of small marine organisms, she hopes to deepen an understanding of the spread of life in the entire ocean.

The tiny male blanket octopus, which possesses a relatively huge copulatory organ, spends it entire life drifting on the ocean in search of a female so large he is no bigger than one of her eyes.

«We already know that ocean acidification will affect a lot of marine species that live their entire lives in the sea,» says project leader Professor Ivan Nagelkerken, from the University's Environment Institute.

In terms of the potential for life, he said the only possible drawback is that due to its size, it only take about 250 million years for the entire ocean to be recycled through the rock — and once this is done, the number of chemical reactions that take place becomes very limited.

One of the most important lessons Professor Todd shares in Life in the World's Oceans is why it's so important to consider the ocean environment as an entire system.

He didn't compare me to an actress on The Office or spend the entire 7 minutes discussing creatures that live in the ocean like others did.

Andy Garcia (Ocean's Thirteen) and Julianna Margulies (Snakes on a Plane) create one of the most credible long - time - married couples cinema has seen in ages, but the entire cast — including Emily Mortimer (Redbelt), Alan Arkin (Marley & Me), Steven Strait (Stop - Loss), and Garcia's real - life daughter, Dominik García - Lorido — couldn't be more faultless.

Architects make use of frameless Hafele glass walls throughout the entire house, allowing guests to fully open the walls and living spaces to the fresh ocean breeze and natural sunlight, or close spaces off to enjoy the air conditioning.

In fact, the entire length of the living room opens to the terrace, allowing fresh ocean breeze to flow throughout.

In fact, the entire length of the living room has a floor - to - ceiling windowed door that opens to let the fresh ocean air fill the interior space.

Shaded front porches span the entire ocean - facing side of both living rooms, with comfortable chairs and loungers inviting you to soak up the view of the sea and the neighboring Grenadines.

It is an amazing hobby that opens an entire new life of ocean exploration.

This influence will follow him through his entire life and can also be seen in his most famous works such as the Ocean Park oil paintings, especially the influence of Matisse's French Window at Collioure and View of Notre - Dame.

The ocean's richness was that entire historically complex inventory of life that produced the foundation to the fish resources we've been plundering for a long time, though only on a modern industrial scale in the more recent history.

The ocean provide a vast area of sunlight, and anything which modestly increase the amount photosynthesis of ocean life, could have dramatic effects in terms affecting entire world.

The Earth's surface is an interlocking mosaic of living ecosystems — of swamps and forests and rivers and lakes and oceans that filter our water, clean our air, and support our entire civilization.

Primary producers — plant life and ocean phytoplankton — play an integral part of the Earth system; some would say that they drive the entire biosphere.

The biggest change occurred in measurement methodology and scope, with the switch from tide gauges (which measure SL at various shorelines, where humans live) to satellite altimetry (which measures the entire ocean except polar regions and coastlines, which can not be captured by satellites).

I'd say it'd be more apocalyptic (as per Dr. Venkman's «dogs and cats, living together» dictum) if the animals were migrating to environments * more * likely to result in their extinction;) Having said that, I acknowledge that a common view is that humanity is doing exactly that — not a physical migration, but an enforced anthropogenic man - handling of the entire biosphere towards a bad neighborhood in Earth's «state space», where we risk being stabbed by shadowy tipping points, mugged by run - away processes and distressed at the sight of an anoxic ocean vomiting over the local fauna.

The oceans absorb a significant amount of the carbon that enters the atmosphere, creating carbonic acid that makes it hard for marine life to survive and threatens the entire oceanic food chain.

-- Life in the oceans are under severe stress and 90 % of the big fish biomass is already fished out, plus ocean acidification is occurring which threatens entire bio webs.

I was born in a city on the ocean, I have lived next to the ocean my entire life and here I was living in «very super-hot dry temperatures all the time» Phoenix, Arizona.