Sentences with phrase «life in the oceans remains»

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«Biological oceanographers have speculated that early life stages of marine organisms might be particularly sensitive to ocean acidification, but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown for most species,» says David Garrison, program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research through an ocean acidification competiocean acidification, but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown for most species,» says David Garrison, program director in NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research through an ocean acidification competiOcean Sciences, which funded the research through an ocean acidification competiocean acidification competition.

The shale, named for the town of Eagle Ford, TX, is a geologic remnant of the ancient ocean that covered present day Texas millions of years ago, when the remains of sea life (especially ancient plankton) died and deposited onto the seafloor, were buried by several hundred feet of sediment, eventually turning into the rich source of hydrocarbons we have today.The shale was first tapped in 2008 and now has around 20 active fields good producing over 900 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.

Earlier models had assumed that only 1 to 2 per cent of the iron contained in aerosols, including shipping emissions, is soluble in seawater, so the remaining 98 to 99 percent would sink to the bottom without affecting ocean life.

Bacteria, however, have remained Earth's most successful form of life — found miles deep below as well as within and on surface rock, within and beneath the oceans and polar ice, floating in the air, and within as well as on Homo sapiens sapiens; and some Arctic thermophiles apparently even have life - cycle hibernation periods of up to a 100 million years while waiting for warmer conditions underneath increasing layers of sea sediments (Lewis Dartnell, New Scientist, September 20, 2010; and Hubert et al, 2010).

While Yasodhara is learning a new way of life across the ocean, Saraswathi, a Tamil girl of similar age, remains in Sri Lanka with her family, only to see her dreams shattered and end up fighting a battle she had long tried to avoid.

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There are certain events in nature that still need to be observed; actually, it is believed that 95 % of our oceans remain unexplored and we have discovered only 10 % of the living things on Earth.

A wall - sized aerial view of the Sahara desert has almost infinite detail due to the high resolution capacities of digital imaging, but it remains an enigmatic landscape; an image of women playing cards on an evening street in Hong Kong taken without flash would have been impossible without recent advances in photographic technology; a still life of aquatic plants and animals reveals what is otherwise hidden beneath the ocean surface; and images of border crossings depict territorial differences that are materially invisible.

When James Westcott, then a graduate student at New York University, learned that the artist Marina Abramovic was staging «The House With the Ocean View», a performance in which she lived in the Sean Kelly Gallery for twelve days, he rushed to catch the remaining days of the installation.

But a single time scale just doesn't express the multi-compartment transfer rates — a fifth to a third of the CO2 remains in the atmosphere after even a 40 - year half - life of ocean equilibration (which quite frankly agrees with my numbers — I get about a back of the envelope number of ~ 37 years half - life, depending on the saturation limits), and the rest will be around for quite a while.

a fifth to a third of the CO2 remains in the atmosphere after even a 40 - year half - life of ocean equilibration

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/43/18045.full About a decade ago, Canfield (1) offered a very different possibility — that ventilation of the deep ocean lagged behind the GOE by more than a billion years, resulting in a vast, deep reservoir of hydrogen sulfide, but long - held presumptions about photosynthetic life in the surface waters remained untouched.

It's not just marine life experiencing decimation in the face of ocean warming as human health also remains precarious.

Though «climate denial starts at the top,» the New York Times» Coral Davenport wrote in March, it was trickling down into a variety of high - influence position: Vice President Mike Pence, who once called global warming a «myth» disproved by the fact that his home state once had a cold winter; then - senior advisor Steve Bannon, whose news site Breitbart remains one of the top destinations for climate misinformation; Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, who believes carbon dioxide is not a «primary contributor» to global warming; and Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who believes the same myth, saying in June, «No, most likely the primary control knob is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in.»

In addition, ocean acidification is co-occurring with other drivers of environmental change (including warming, eutrophication, hypoxia, eutrophication, pollution [12]-RRB-, yet the interactive effects and relative importance of multiple stressors on species physiology, life history and ecology, as well as species — environment interactions and ecosystem function remain poorly understood [13 — 17].

Subarctic Climate Occurs mainly in Northern hemisphere south of Arctic Ocean Winters are long and bitterly cold; summers short and cool Below freezing half the year Tundra Climate Coastal areas along the Arctic Ocean Long, bitterly cold winters In some parts is permafrost, or permanently frozen layers of soil Ice Cap Climate North and South poles Temperature lows of more than - 120 F Snow and ice remain year - round, but little precipitation Highland Climate Found on mountains Includes polar climates plus others; several climates in one As you go up a mountain, temperatures drop and plant life grows sparsein Northern hemisphere south of Arctic Ocean Winters are long and bitterly cold; summers short and cool Below freezing half the year Tundra Climate Coastal areas along the Arctic Ocean Long, bitterly cold winters In some parts is permafrost, or permanently frozen layers of soil Ice Cap Climate North and South poles Temperature lows of more than - 120 F Snow and ice remain year - round, but little precipitation Highland Climate Found on mountains Includes polar climates plus others; several climates in one As you go up a mountain, temperatures drop and plant life grows sparseIn some parts is permafrost, or permanently frozen layers of soil Ice Cap Climate North and South poles Temperature lows of more than - 120 F Snow and ice remain year - round, but little precipitation Highland Climate Found on mountains Includes polar climates plus others; several climates in one As you go up a mountain, temperatures drop and plant life grows sparsein one As you go up a mountain, temperatures drop and plant life grows sparser.