Sentences with phrase «into coastal ecosystems»

The water transported by marine fog into coastal ecosystems creates a cascade of ecological effects.

Runoff from parking lots, gas stations, and driveways invisibly puts the equivalent of one and a half Exxon Valdez loads of petroleum into coastal ecosystems each year, the National Research Council (2003) recently found.

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The Office streamlines these various programs into a concerted effort to improve community services, strengthen local and regional economies, and preserve coastal ecosystems.

The Gulf of Mexico may be open for business and eager to attract tourists, but it's still unclear whether or not marine and coastal ecosystems there are healthy two years after BP's offshore drilling rig exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, eventually releasing 205.8 million gallons of oil into the water column.

Topsoil and natural vegetation would ordinarily filter many of these pollutants out, but the impermeable pavement that covers much of the surface where these pollutants originate carries it right into storm drains and into streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean where it can poison marine life — which we might eat — as well as entire riparian or coastal ecosystems.

They then focused on the small wedges of coastal land, sandwiched between river drainages, where groundwater drains directly into the fragile ecosystems near shore.

Depending on the coastal tides slowly blending into the mangrove ecosystem at Damas Estuary, your night adventure starts after your arrival at our Damas Island Rancho located in our protected mangrove habitat.

Its 400,000 acres are home to eight distinct ecosystems — moving from the mangrove, wallum, and banksia forests of the west and into the subtropical rainforest of the interior, skirting clear dune lakes and bouncing through «wet» and «dry» eucalyptus forests, before finally emerging on the wind - lashed coastal dunes of the expansive eastern beach, is literally a trip through time.

A new study suggests that bubbling compressed air into seawater to lower its CO2 concentration could help vulnerable coastal ecosystems cope with these changes (Environ.

GreenWave aims to restore ocean ecosystems and create jobs in coastal communities by transforming fishers into restorative ocean farms.

Whereas some coastal dead zones could be recovered by control of fertilizer usage, expanded low - oxygen areas caused by global warming will remain for thousands of years to come, adversely affecting fisheries and ocean ecosystems far into the future.

The reason for this conclusion is that, unlike the open ocean, pCO2 in coastal ecosystems is not necessarily in equilibrium with the atmosphere at even annual timescales and many coastal ecosystems emit CO2 into the atmosphere (Laruelle et al. 2010; Cai 2011).

The second study, published April 25, 2018, in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, shows that chemical alteration of oil by sunlight significantly lowers the performance of chemical dispersants, a response tool that helps break up oil into droplets and lessen the amount of oil that reaches coastal ecosystems.

This improved understanding needs to be incorporated into global geochemical models to realistically project the response of coastal and oceanic ecosystems to future warming.

Prevent a drilling rig from spilling oil into a coastal wildlife ecosystem?