Sentences with phrase «higher ocean levels»

As the world warms and seas rise, some spots are expected to take the brunt of the higher ocean levels, while others may not see such a deluge, new research by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reveals.

The findings have important implications in terms of planning for sea level rise, as ever - growing coastal communities might have to plan for even higher ocean levels in a warmer future.

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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is conducting a high - level assessment of all waters offshore the United States Atlantic Coast for potential future offshore wind lease locations.

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Some of our favorite ocean go - ers, like the big fish - shark, swordfish, mackerel, and snapper can contain high levels of mercury.

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A Republican lawmaker on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee said Thursday that rocks from the White Cliffs of Dover and the California coastline, as well as silt from rivers tumbling into the ocean, are contributing to high sea levels globally.

Near - shore volcanic vents off Italy represent a microcosm of how the ocean may react to high levels of carbon dioxide

«We realised that our buoys are in fact a kind of marine debris,» says Nikolai Maximenko of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu, who collaborated with 5 Gyres researchers to identify which areas of the ocean should have especially high levels of plastic pollution.

While tougher regulations have driven lead levels down globally since the 1990s, mercury levels in the North Pacific Ocean have increased 30 percent over the last 20 years, potentially putting humans at higher risk of exposure from seafood (See «Made in China: Our Toxic, Imported Air Pollution»).

Although Woods Hole doesn't expect levels to be dangerously high in the ocean or in seafood as the plume spreads across the Pacific, this is an evolving situation that demands careful, consistent monitoring to make sure predictions are true.

The island sits directly on the equator, at sea level and far from any high elevation, so what happens there is a good indication of what's happening in the wider tropical Pacific Ocean.

It had much higher sea levels, forests extended all the way to the Arctic Ocean, and there was almost certainly a lot less sea ice.

And a lot of this extra water ends up in the oceans, leading, eventually, to higher sea levels.

For three years, they observed marine environments near undersea volcanic vents where CO2 levels are high — providing a window into the future acidity of ocean water — along with adjacent areas of normal acidity.

Also associated with this event are high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which are linked to elevated ocean and atmospheric temperatures.

In a presentation at a recent ocean acidification conference, Tatters reported that the more CO2 and the less silicate, the higher the diatom's toxin production — more than doubling at the level of dissolved CO2 scientists expect the oceans to reach by 2100.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

This was due to a combination of factors: a less active sun, higher levels of cooling aerosols from volcanoes and Asian factories, and increased heat uptake by the oceans.

Scientists believe that the different pattern of deep ocean circulation was responsible for the elevated temperatures 3 million years ago when the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere was arguably what it is now and the temperature was 4 degree Fahrenheit higher.

CO2 levels are projected to be 2.5 times higher in the oceans by the end of this century, which is causing the ocean to acidify at a rate unprecedented for 300 million years.

«This paper is significant because it identifies a link between ocean conditions and the magnitude of the toxic bloom in 2015 that resulted in the highest levels of domoic acid contamination in the food web ever recorded for many species,» said co-author Kathi Lefebvre, a marine biologist at NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center.

Tests of some fish species, which can race across the ocean more quickly than slow - moving currents, have shown higher levels of radiation, although radiation levels in sea life off the U.S. shore are still safe, Buesseler said.

But because the surrounding ocean would have been warmer, and stabilizing sea ice less abundant, the massive East Antarctic ice sheet may have contributed to higher sea levels by flowing more quickly towards the ocean.

It then fluctuated around that level, reaching a high of 306,220 in 2012 before declining below the carrying capacity in the years since as ocean conditions changed.

During that time period, trees overtook the tundra, sprouting right to the edges of the Arctic Ocean, and the seas swelled, pushing ocean levels 65 to 80 feet hiOcean, and the seas swelled, pushing ocean levels 65 to 80 feet hiocean levels 65 to 80 feet higher.

To test the state of the ocean, researchers at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management in Makati, Philippines, assigned each major food fish a «trophic level,» depending on how high it is on the food chain.

Though familiar to humans as an antiseptic, high levels of H2O2 can inhibit the growth of phytoplankton, tiny plants that are the base of many ocean food chains.

«Urban organics» thus remain at higher levels longer, says Canuel, «delivering more organic material to the river mouth and increasing the likelihood that low - oxygen conditions will develop in downstream locations such as estuaries and the coastal ocean.»

The strength of the byssal threads varies seasonally, Carrington said, with mussels creating significantly weaker threads in late summer when the oceans reach higher temperatures and high levels of acidity — both of which are also on the rise due to climate change.

«No one expected that the highest levels of cesium in ocean water today would be found not in the harbor of the Fukushima Dai - ichi nuclear power plant, but in the groundwater many miles away below the beach sands,» said Sanial.

Dear EarthTalk: Oceans are in big trouble and I understand President Obama is creating a high - level ocean council to address them.

Further, in areas of the ocean with persistent or frequent eddies, Qiu and co-authors from the Japan Meteorological Agency, Caltech and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory determined that sea level can reliably be used to calculate circulation at a fairly high resolution, that is, at fairly small length scales (resolution of 10 miles).

The region also experienced the highest rates of sea - level rise over the world, indicating large increases in ocean heat content and leading to substantial impacts on small island states in the region.

Grant's study this past spring noted that pollution levels at Huntington Beach were consistently higher at high tide, and rain has long been considered a good predictor of troubled ocean waters.

Earlier this year, researchers discovered that periods when the ocean had high levels of trace elements — like zinc, copper, manganese and selenium — seemed to overlap with periods of high productivity, including the Cambrian explosion, when most groups of living animals first appeared.

Leader of the US delegation to the summit, William Reilly, called the oceans «a US priority» and gave strong backing for a high - level international meeting to discuss worsening pollution of coastal zones.

With the higher glacier speeds in mind, they calculate that Greenland currently contributes 0.57 millimeter of ocean level rise every year out of a total of three millimeters.

Surprisingly high pollution levels were observed over the entire northern Indian Ocean toward the Intertropical Convergence Zone at about 6 ° S.

Published in the journal Oecologia, the study is the first to show that even freshwater fish which only spend a small portion of their lifecycle in the ocean are likely to be seriously affected under the higher CO2 levels expected at the end of the century.

FULL - BLOWN FALLOUT Remnant radiation levels from nuclear testing near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, as seen in this explosion in 1946, are far higher than previously predicted, new research shows.

Critters living more than six miles below the ocean surface contain high levels of harmful compounds like PCBs and flame retardants.

The salmon, to be sold under the SweetSpring label, have also been shown to contain high levels of omega - 3 fatty acids, placing the salmon on Seafood Watch's newly created Super Green List, which denotes that the fish is good for human health without causing harm to the ocean.

Some scientists are linking the phenomenon to warmer waters and ocean acidification caused by high levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Now, a team of researchers has put forward some of the strongest evidence yet to support the hypothesis that high levels of oxygen in the oceans were crucial for the emergence of skeletal animals 550 million years ago.

Thanks to industrialization, mercury levels in the atmosphere are at least three times higher than they were 150 years ago, and mercury levels in ocean surface waters are higher too.

The ozone measurements, taken between 2 and 6 miles in altitude (3 - 10 kilometers) over a large part of the eastern Indian Ocean, were as high as 80 parts per billion - levels similar to a polluted day in a U.S. city and several times more than normal.

In the U.S. study, median plasma levels of certain PFAAs were highest in alligators on Kiawah Island, an Atlantic Ocean barrier island southwest of Charleston, South Carolina, and on Merritt Island in Florida.

With higher levels of carbon dioxide and higher average temperatures, the oceans» surface waters warm and sea ice disappears, and the marine world will see increased stratification, intense nutrient trapping in the deep Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean) and nutrition starvation in the other oceans.

CO2 concentrations would start to fall immediately since the ocean and terrestrial biosphere would continue to absorb more carbon than they release as long as the CO2 level in the atmosphere is higher than pre-industrial levels (approximately).