Sentences with phrase «fueled algal blooms»

These extra nutrients would have boosted plant growth on land, but a considerable fraction would have flowed to the seas and fueled algal blooms in shallow waters surrounding the continents.

Most years, it fuels algal blooms that suck up oxygen from a zone of coastal water the size of New Jersey, killing the creatures that can't swim away.

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Nutrient pollution fuels the growth of harmful algal blooms which devastate aquatic ecosystems.

A new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature says ports and trade hotspots in the United States need to do more to detect and respond to foreign invaders like the quagga.Quaggas have transformed the Great Lakes ecosystem, outcompeting native species, harming fish populations, clogging up drinking water intake pipes and helping fuel toxic algal blooms.