Sentences with phrase «in gulf waters»

... climate change is hitting home in more ways than the heat wave we experienced this summer... the giant Australian cuttlefish, which breeds in the gulf waters near Adelaide, has undergone a catastrophic 90 % decline in numbers over the past few years because the waters are too warm for them to breed.»

We recently experienced a mass fish die off with thousands of dead fish washing up on our beaches because of the hot water, and the giant Australian cuttlefish, which breeds in the gulf waters near Adelaide, has undergone a catastrophic 90 % decline in numbers over the past few years because the waters are too warm for them to breed.

Enjoy a thrilling jet ski ride in the Gulf waters as you glide through the waves on Fort Myers Beach!

Not exact matches

More 4,000 passengers were adrift in the Gulf of Mexico for five days, with no hot water and few working toilets.

The Gulf has seen a number of naval incidents between Iran and the US in the past year, including test rocket fire by the Islamic Republic and the brief capture of American sailors who strayed into its territorial waters.

There is also limited infrastructure in the western Gulf of Mexico and questions surrounding reserves in eastern waters off the coast of Florida.

Like a lot of people in the cottaging enclave of B.C.'s Gulf Islands, Scott Simmons once felt a touch of envy when he looked across the waters toward Washington state's San Juans.

The country had initially set June 21 as the date to open bids for 11 new blocks, located in border areas with Iran and Kuwait, and in offshore Gulf waters.

Protest group Climate Direct Action said the move was in support of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which has protested the construction of a separate $ 3.7 billion pipeline carrying oil from North Dakota to the U.S. Gulf Coast over fears of potential damage to sacred land and water supplies.

Representing one of its first major overseas acquisitions, the company's wholly - owned subsidiary, Woodside Energy (USA) Inc. reached agreement with the Marathon Oil Company — part of the USX - Marathon Group which is a unit of the USX Corporation in Pittsburgh — for the acquisition of interests in a number of deep water exploration acreage blocks in the Gulf.

WOODSIDE Petroleum Limited has paid US$ 25.6 million for entry into hydrocarbon prospective, deep water exploration acreage in the Gulf of Mexico.

And so far, there has not been reports of major damage at the Gulf Coast refineries, although with flood waters still in the Port Arthur area, it is still unknown how quickly they will return to operation.

Hurricane Harvey hovered over the Gulf Coast in late August and dumped 33 trillion gallons of water on US soil, according to some estimates, and is now the wettest storm in US history.

It is the easternmost city in Texas and serves as a deep - water port to the Gulf of Mexico.

Still, the international oil majors have committed billions to energy exploration in Mexican territorial waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Two major factors are creating hurricane - friendly conditions in the Atlantic region, which includes the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico: warm water and a lack of wind shear.

Proposed Lease Sale 250 includes 14,375 unleased blocks, located from 3 to 230 mi offshore, in the Gulf's Western, Central and Eastern planning areas in water depths ranging from 9 to more than 11,115 ft (three to 3,400 m).

Babylonia was rich in its alluvial soil, the age - long deposit of the Euphrates and the Tigris, those two great rivers that year after year unceasingly carried their load of silt to a resting - place, first in the Persian Gulf, then in the swamps that were slowly forming, and at length in the plain which gradually emerged from the waters, though at inundation each year it once again was claimed by the floods that had made it.

A robot BP was using under the water in the Gulf of Mexico accidentally bumped a vent, causing BP to have to remove the containment cap that was siphoning off some of the oil gushing from the ocean floor.

I quickly poached a pound of wild Gulf shrimp in some lemon water and let it chill, then I coarsely chopped the larger pieces to make it a little easier to eat.

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In the wake of Roy Halladay's sudden passing earlier this week at 40 years old, when his plane went down in shallow water in the Gulf of Mexico, memories have been pouring in from all over the baseball world mourning a beloved member of the baseball familIn the wake of Roy Halladay's sudden passing earlier this week at 40 years old, when his plane went down in shallow water in the Gulf of Mexico, memories have been pouring in from all over the baseball world mourning a beloved member of the baseball familin shallow water in the Gulf of Mexico, memories have been pouring in from all over the baseball world mourning a beloved member of the baseball familin the Gulf of Mexico, memories have been pouring in from all over the baseball world mourning a beloved member of the baseball familin from all over the baseball world mourning a beloved member of the baseball family.

The sponge docks are the main focus, and the main drag is a Greek community reminiscent of Greektown here in Toronto, only with easier parking The town was essentially built by Greek immigrants that brought the tradition of diving for sponges to the bountiful waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

The information collected will no doubt be particularly valuable once it's cross-referenced with satellite imagery and measurements, as well as with data on water quality and such collected by scientists working in the Gulf and on the coast.

Fracking has also raised concerns about the potential for drinking water contamination and other adverse impacts in densely populated regions unaccustomed to an industry that has until recently been active mostly in the West and Gulf Coast.

Now that the federal government has restricted fishing in federal waters affected by the Gulf oil disaster, shall we now see the state governments restrict fishing in their jurisdictions?

The Bryde's whale has come up with a passive but more efficient feeding strategy in the hypoxic waters of the Gulf of Thailand.

Warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico can also feed extra energy into storms battering the U.S. East Coast, says Richard Alley, a climatologist at Penn State who wasn't involved in the new study.

Kaustubh Thirumalai (Brown University) helping retrieve a CTD instrument, which collects water samples and measures physical parameters of oceanic waters such as temperature, aboard the R / V Point Sur in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Warming waters in the Gulf of Maine have reduced Atlantic cod populations in that region and distorted estimates of how many fish were available to catch, a new study finds.

Surface slicks may account for as little as 2 per cent of the oil now spilling into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a study of a controlled deep - water spill conducted in 2000 by the US Minerals Management Service and a consortium of oil companies, including BP.

The fall of the temperature of the sea water is sometimes a sign of the proximity of ice, although in regions where there is an intermixture of cold and warm currents going on, as at the junction of the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream, the temperature of the sea has been known to rise as the ice is approached.

Unusually warm surface water in the Gulf of Mexico — about 2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal — may be a factor, he said.

As for the increase in phosphorus content, it was caused by the phosphorus that in the summer of 2014 flowed in from the deep waters in the north of the Baltic Sea main basin and the phosphorus that was released from the Gulf of Finland's own seabed in the poor oxygen conditions and mixed with the surface layer during last winter.

The chlorophyll - a content that represents the algae levels in coastal waters was higher than last year in both the southern areas of the Finnish Archipelago Sea and the Gulf of Finland.

The heavier salty water flowing into the main basin has partially replaced the old eutrophic and anoxic water, which has in turn moved towards the mouth of the Gulf of Finland.

The oxygen situation of the seabed and the water near the seabed in the sampling stations of the research vessel Muikku in the outer archipelago of the Gulf of Finland was also mainly good.

A central factor improving the oxygen situation from last year was that the eutrophic, low - oxygen deep water from the main basin has not flowed into the Gulf of Finland in the weather conditions of the past summer, unlike in the spring of 2014, for example.

The natural seeps of gas and oil could contribute to the overall levels in the ocean water, possibly complicating scientists» attempts to understand how much oil spilled and what the effects will be on the gulf.

This kind of «slopping» of water to and fro in the vicinity of the seabed on the Gulf of Finland is fairly normal, and the situation at the seabed can change quite rapidly.

Because of unprecedented hurricane - related rainfall in southeastern Texas last week, the Gulf of Mexico and its bountiful offshore ecosystems are contending with the record - setting pulse of freshwater — a volume of water exceeding the entire Chesapeake Bay — that surged off the land, sweeping along sediment, nutrients, and pollutants.

The unusually warm waters, which lingered for about a year and a half, have been linked to mass die - offs of birds, collapsed codfish populations in the Gulf of Alaska and altered weather patterns that brought drought to California.

In a news briefing, researchers from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute and Stony Brook University warned that rapidly warming waters in the Gulf of Maine have contributed to the collapse of cod stocks — despite cutbacks in fishing beginning in 201In a news briefing, researchers from the Gulf of Maine Research Institute and Stony Brook University warned that rapidly warming waters in the Gulf of Maine have contributed to the collapse of cod stocks — despite cutbacks in fishing beginning in 201in the Gulf of Maine have contributed to the collapse of cod stocks — despite cutbacks in fishing beginning in 201in fishing beginning in 201in 2010.

The short answer is everywhere — the sea surface, deep waters, the Gulf Coast, in deepwater corals and even as far as the Arctic

So we're talking about like islands of Vancouver or all of the archipelagos from varying to Baja, California but also all the Gulf of Mexico and in the case of Mexico part of the Caribbean coast but also of all of the waters in Atlantic from Canada and the U.S. and what we are trying to understand is what are the species that we are responsible for conservation?

On April 20, 2010, an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico sank the oil rig and created a leak that has spewed millions of gallons into the water.

«Similar to the «dead zone» nowadays spreading in the Gulf of Mexico, the soil crisis could have caused a worldwide expanse of uninhabitable low - oxygen conditions in shallow waters,» explains team member Henk Visscher of Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

Chevron, working with a consortium of other oil companies, recently drilled an exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico in waters 7,718 feet deep, a distance five times the height of the Empire State Building.

These are boom times for oil - eating microbes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, thanks to BP's Deepwater Horizon accident that has added some 600 million liters of hydrocarbons to those waters.

Short says that it is still too early to tell how PAHs might affect Gulf organisms in either shallow or deep water.