Sentences with phrase «including harmful algae»
Washed - away fertilizer that was meant for crops can also feed other organisms, including harmful algae and bacteria.
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Cuomo said harmful algae blooms, or HABs, have a variety of causes, including agricultural production and wastewater plants, that have not been addressed in environmental regulations.
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).
The subject categories include coastal hazards, diving safety, global warming, harmful algae, marine careers, seafood safety / foodborne illnesses, and, perhaps most interesting to teachers, the education section.
Climate change will exacerbate a range of risks to the Great Lakes, including changes in the range and distribution of certain fish species, increased invasive species and harmful blooms of algae, and declining beach health.
The lower Chesapeake Bay is especially at risk due to high rates of sinking land (known as subsidence).96 Climate change and sea level rise are also likely to cause a number of ecological impacts, including declining water quality and clarity, increases in harmful algae and low oxygen (hypoxia) events, decreases in a number of species including eelgrass and seagrass beds, and changing interactions among trophic levels (positions in the food chain) leading to an increase in subtropical fish and shellfish species in the bay.66
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.