Sentences with phrase «increase levels of acidity»

Among its other drawbacks is that it can trigger stones in the kidney, increase levels of acidity in the blood, loss of muscle mass... so it is advisable to take your precautions in consultation with your doctor and not follow this diet lightly.

Rising ocean water temperatures and increasing levels of acidity — two symptoms of climate change — are imperiling sea creatures in unexpected ways: mussels are having trouble clinging to rocks, and the red rock shrimp's camouflage is being thwarted, according to presenters at the AAAS Pacific Division annual meeting at the University of San Diego in June.

The loss of populations of lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush), lake herring (Coregonus artedii), white suckers (Catostomus commersoni), and other fishes in Lumsden Lake was attributed to increasing levels of acidity within the lake.

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For example, as global CO2 levels rise, increases in the acidity of the ocean are expected to have dramatic impacts on sea life.

It may takes tens of thousands of years for oceans to recover from the acidity caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide

That sulfur dioxide market, run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has reduced sulfur dioxide levels by 40 percent since 1992 by allowing companies to buy and sell the right to emit the acid - rain forming pollution from coal - burning plants, which has increased the acidity of lake waters throughout the region.

Three global bleaching events have taken place since the 1980s, including one that is going on right now, as a result of climate change increasing acidity levels and temperatures in the world's oceans.

The PH of the rumen is heavily affected by grain, greatly increasing acidity, thus completely throwing off Omega 3, CLA, and other levels.

Low urine specific gravity (urinalysis too dilute) high levels of metabolic waste in the blood (elevated BUN and Creatinine) and increased body acidity (metabolic acidosis) are also common in Addison's disease; but they also occur in many health problems not related to your pet's adrenal glands.

Based on findings related to oceanic acidity levels during the PETM and on calculations about the cycling of carbon among the oceans, air, plants and soil, Dickens and co-authors Richard Zeebe of the University of Hawaii and James Zachos of the University of California - Santa Cruz determined that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased by about 70 percent during the PETM.

Disputes within climate science concern the nature and magnitude of feedback processes involving clouds and water vapor, uncertainties about the rate at which the oceans take up heat and carbon dioxide, the effects of air pollution, and the nature and importance of climate change effects such as rising sea level, increasing acidity of the ocean, and the incidence of weather hazards such as floods, droughts, storms, and heat waves.

The scientists have demonstrated that they can successfully isolate and capture carbon dioxide, which contributes to global warming, rising sea levels and the increased acidity of oceans.

These increased levels of ocean acidity are impacting the ability for coral reefs to recover from disturbance and bleaching.

It means hotter global temperatures, more extreme weather events like heatwaves and floods, melting ice, rising sea levels and increased acidity of the oceans.

In addition to rising temperatures, the report discussed a variety of «other possible effects of an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide», including melting of the Antarctic ice cap, rise of sea level, warming of sea water, increased acidity of fresh waters (which also applies to the danger of ocean acidification, global warming's evil twin), and an increase in plant photosynthesis.

Scientists are only beginning to do the research on how individual species of organisms might respond to increasing levels of ocean acidity as atmospheric levels of CO2 continue to rise.

«In addition to causing changes in climate, increasing levels of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities have a direct affect on the world's oceans,» the report found, particularly an increase in levels of acidity, which it said are a threat to marine life.

• Rising acidity: Rising levels of CO2 in the oceans are altering ocean chemistry and increasing the acidity of ocean water, reducing the saturation level of aragonite, a compound corals need to build their skeletons.

And in turn the link between both and melting ice on cap and glacier, sea level and acidity, changes in ecology of plants and animals, increases in record and extreme weather events.

That sulfur dioxide market, run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has reduced sulfur dioxide levels by 40 percent since 1992 by allowing companies to buy and sell the right to emit the acid - rain forming pollution from coal - burning plants, which has increased the acidity of lake waters throughout the region.

We are suffering terrible climate change damage — consider the decline in run - off in the Murray Basin, rising temperatures, increasing frequency and violence in extreme weather events, increased ferocity of bushfires and length of the fire danger season, increasing acidity of the oceans and rise in sea levels, the decline in rainfall in the southern half of the country, the damage to the Great Barrier Reef, etc. — we should reduce our CO2 production levels for our own benefit.