Sentences with phrase «marine life growth»
Sunk in 1999 as an artificial reef, the Sea Tiger is home to the early stages of marine life growth.
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The main goal is to draw tourists away from coral reefs — where divers often do a lot of damage — and stimulate coral growth to form new reefs where marine life can be preserved even as natural coral reefs decline.
Runoff of phosphorus from sources like lawn fertilizer can end up contributing to algae blooms in water sources — accelerated growth that can make lakes and ponds hostile to marine life and treacherous for swimmers and other recreational users.
While the extra nitrogen is a rich resource for algae in the Gulf, driving the growth of massive algal blooms, excess nitrogen has a more deadly impact on other marine life.
From poisoning and injuring marine life to the ubiquitous presence of plastics in our food to disrupting human hormones and causing major life - threatening diseases and early puberty, the exponential growth of plastics is threatening our planet's survival.
In and around lakes and streams, this influx in nitrates can lead to plant growth out of whack with the local ecosystem's ability to handle it, resulting in oxygen - free «dead zones» devoid of marine and riparian life altogether.
It complements the more anatomical approach of classics such as Charles Yonge and T. E. Thompson's Living Marine Molluscs (Collins, 1976) and builds on the gnomon so firmly established by D'Arcy Thompson's On Growth and Form (Cambridge, 1961).
By manipulating the acidity of the Biosphere 2 ocean and measuring the resulting growth rates in coral between 1996 and 2003, Langdon proved that ocean acidification from rising atmospheric carbon dioxide would radically affect calcium carbonate — shelled marine life (pdf).
Conventional: Fertilizer runoff pollutes coastal areas and can strip water of oxygen, spur algae growth, and kill marine life.
The marine life and coral growth are exceptionally rich with large pelagic: sharks, rays, morays and beautiful underwater reef systems.
400 statues have been built as a way to promote growth of coral and marine life.
Fish feeding disrupts the natural balance of ocean ecosystems and stimulates algae growth which is harmful to coral as well as disrupts the natural diversity of marine life.
From 25 feet downward, slopes are covered in thick growths of hard and soft corals that hold a wide range of tropical fish and other marine life.
Indonesia is at the very top of the world diving charts when it comes to marine life and coral growth.
Blast fishing has been abandoned, and environmentalists on the islands have pioneered a technology that uses a small electric current to accelerate coral growth, leading to a rebirth of marine life.
At the northern tip of Cebu the small island of Malapascua is famous for thresher sharks, but also delivers walls, spectacular soft coral growths and a diverse roster of marine life that includes batfish, flutemouth, barracuda, tuna, mantis shrimp, pipefish, scorpionfish, lionfish, Moorish idols, schooling bannerfish, unicorn fish, squid, octopus and various moray eels.
Little other marine life appears present in the cavern, but the walls above are covered with cornflake algae and isolated growths of gorgonians.
Great coral growth and a huge amount of marine life made this dive a winner.
You can expect to dive a lot of walls and see a lot of healthy coral growth and marine life such as eagle rays, horse - eye jacks, nurse sharks, gray reef sharks, orange elephant ear sponges, and an array of macro life.
But ocean experts have increasingly warned that the direct chemical impact on marine life, as carbon dioxide dissolves in water and lowers its pH, could profoundly disrupt ecosystems by interfering with the growth of reefs and shell - forming plankton.
From poisoning and injuring marine life to disrupting human hormones, from littering beaches and landscapes to clogging our waste streams and landfills, the exponential growth of plastics is now threatening the survival of our planet.
But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).
They could spark growth among the invertebrates but cause stress higher up the food web to destabilise the balance of marine life.
Critics contend these climate geoengineering approaches are risky and could kill marine life, stall plant growth, damage the ozone layer, and reduce rainfall while increasing warming in other areas.