Sentences with phrase «from harmful algae»

The National Marine Fisheries Service is declaring the fatalities to be an «unusual mortality event», and are investigating the potential cause of death, which could also include biotoxins from harmful algae blooms, pollution, ship collisions, or possible acoustic trauma from ships or other ocean infrastructure.

«Ohio's fresh bodies of water deserve our full attention when it comes to protecting them from harmful algae.

The Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries have long been suffering from harmful algae blooms caused by excess nutrients running off of the land, due largely to a continually growing population in the Baltimore - Washington corridor and the development of animal and plant agriculture in its watershed.

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This month, he released his first book, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, an in - depth biography of the lakes — from the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway to the current issues with harmful algae blooms and invasive species.

River waters worldwide are impacted by disease - causing agents including bacteria, protists, flatworms, viruses, and harmful algae that derive from domestic sewage and farm runoff, and / or are emergent due to nutrient pollution and climate change.

Like anything growing in nature, an alga picks up substances from its environment, including good ones (like nutrients) and bad ones (like bacteria and harmful metals).

Harmful algae blooms had been common in the western part of Lake Erie from the 1960s through the 1980s, but they had diminished with better pollution controls — until about a decade ago, according to NOAA.

Agricultural runoff, in combination with increased water temperatures, has caused considerable non-point source pollution problems in recent years, with increased phosphorus and nitrogen loadings from farms contributing to more frequent and prolonged occurrences of anoxic «dead zones» and harmful, dense algae growth for long periods.

This toxin is harmful to the corals and the corals eventually remove the algae from themselves which disrupts their food supply.