Sentences with phrase «marine life impacts»

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When you speak of the programs and people that will be impacted, instead think of the reduction in cancer, the increase in marine life, the removal of plastics from the bottled water being sold... the list goes on.

New research shows that the plastic problem is growing, but the full impact on marine life remains unknown.

«Plastic straws can have a large environmental impact to marine life and oceans.

John Tran, director of sustainability and responsibility at Pernod Ricard USA, said: «Plastic straws can have a large environmental impact to marine life and oceans.

A former Army bomb disposal officer and business development executive, Crossman has been instrumental in the development of numerous life - saving technologies, including the bomb suit featured in the Oscar - winning movie, The Hurt Locker, Advanced Combat Helmet impact pads, roadside bomb jammers used by the United States Marine Corp, and, most recently, helmet impact sensors used by U.S. Army and USMC to help detect traumatic brain injury (TBI) in deployed soldiers and Marines.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission said this week that it will conduct further studies into the impact the Indian Point nuclear power has on Hudson River marine life.

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.

Although this amount of depletion has little impact on mobile marine life, scientists worry about anoxic effects down deep, where mixing with oxygen - rich surface waters is minimal.

What's surprising is that, as with marine life, so little research is being done on the impact to invertebrates that night - lights might have.

In this regard, one of the key questions is: How will the warming of the oceans and resultant decrease in dissolved oxygen impact marine life forms» productivity?

Climate change can have a different impact on male and female fish, shellfish and other marine animals, with widespread implications for the future of marine life and the production of seafood.

Voluntary half - measures are not preventing devastating global impacts to marine life, the economy and public health.

But fish and seaweed could concentrate radioactive particles to levels higher than those in the surrounding waters, so monitoring will be crucial to assess the impact on marine life.

Using empirical data from this monitoring and from ongoing field studies the convention would support, scientists could more thoroughly assess surveys» cumulative long - term impacts on marine life and identify areas where seismic activities should be prohibited or temporarily limited to protect important habitats or vulnerable populations.

His findings have gone a long way toward educating the science community, if not yet the public, on the magnitude of marine pollution and its impact on life — all life.

Schuiling says that before the Red Sea is tapped for power, experts would have to weigh the pros (reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on oil) and cons (the disruption to local marine life and increase in salinity of the remaining seawater as well as the impact on tourism and transportation).

One day, Horsfield's team might be assessing the impact on marine life of a proposed offshore rig; another, they might be decommissioning an oil platform the size of Canary Wharf.

«There are no published studies,» said Keith Kirkendall, a NOAA fisheries biologist, «so we just don't know what the impact to marine life will be.»

As part of the team that first discovered the plumes in May, biogeochemist Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia, Athens, has been working full throttle to study the plumes and understand what kind of an impact they might have on marine life.

This finding suggests that any human activities that alter the seafloor, such as potential deep - sea mining, could have a big impact on communities of marine life around the seamount.

Smith and his colleagues used several instruments to study the amount of marine snow arriving at Station M, as well as its impacts on life in the deep.

Coral reefs, which support diverse communities of fish and other marine life, are declining globally at unprecedented rates due to human - caused impacts, such as warming waters and ocean acidification.

However, there is concern that the phenomenon will have a harmful impact on marine life.

«Ocean acidification is already having impacts on marine organisms and the scale and magnitude of the impact on life in the ocean and the services they support will increase.

Most also recognize that such global agreements are the most difficult to come by, and that local protection strategies and efforts to reduce stressors on corals and marine life are important steps in at least staving off the impacts of ocean acidification and global warming.

It is jointly funded by the U.S. Navy Living Marine Resources Program (LMR) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and is part of an international collaboration to measure the impacts of noise on marine maMarine Resources Program (LMR) and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and is part of an international collaboration to measure the impacts of noise on marine mamarine mammals.

MEPC 57 - 20 INF.4 (December 2007) This information document advises the Committee of the issue of noise generated by international shipping and its potential adverse impact on marine life.

His research work includes topics such as Baltic Sea food webs, ecological modeling, bioaccumulation of harmful substances, assessment of populations of aquatic species with several methods including hydro - acoustics — and recently, underwater soundscapes and impacts of underwater noise on marine life.

His research interests include ocean ambient noise and sound field characterization, and underwater noise impacts to marine life.

In the film, we meet Dr. Worm, whose work is aimed at better understanding human impacts on ocean life and assessing alternative approaches to protecting ocean habitat and marine species.

An international study to understand and predict the likely impact of ocean acidification on shellfish and other marine organisms living in seas from the tropics to the p...

«Anything contributing to ocean warming will affect marine ecosystems,» said Henson, who co-authored a March 7 study in Nature Communications on global warming impacts to ocean life.

6 on Noise Disturbances This is one chapter of a larger report (the Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment) that considers environmental impacts of commercial shipping on marine life, including Marine Shipping Assessment) that considers environmental impacts of commercial shipping on marine life, including marine life, including noise.

Their preliminary results suggest important insights into the impacts of ocean acidification on marine life and their consequences both for society and economy.

While military sonar systems and seismic airguns used in oil / gas exploration and scientific research have received considerable attention in the overall issue of noise impacts on marine life, less intense but far more widespread and chronically - present noise sources, particularly large commercial ships, have only recently begun to be specifically considered.

About BIOACID: Since 2009, more than 250 BIOACID scientists from 20 German research institutes have investigated how different marine organisms respond to ocean acidification and increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater, how their performance is affected during their various life stages, how these reactions impact marine food webs and elemental cycles and whether they can be mitigated by evolutionary adaptation.

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Voluntary Codes of Conduct have proven vital in managing diver impacts on marine life and habitats in other popular dive destinations including:

November, 2002 - In response to the negative impacts of tourism on marine life, Hol Chan Marine Reserve has conducted a Carrying Capacity Study, with the help of Green Reef Environmental Institute and the World Wildlife Fund Mesoamerican Prmarine life, Hol Chan Marine Reserve has conducted a Carrying Capacity Study, with the help of Green Reef Environmental Institute and the World Wildlife Fund Mesoamerican PrMarine Reserve has conducted a Carrying Capacity Study, with the help of Green Reef Environmental Institute and the World Wildlife Fund Mesoamerican Project.

For example, the introduction of DDT, a long - lived pesticide, into the marine environment has severely impacted seabird populations at the islands.

Educating them on how important our life style and choices regarding the environment has a direct impact on marine life and coral is the most important step in becoming a good future diver.

In response to the negative impacts of tourism on marine life, Hol Chan Marine Reserve has conducted a Carrying Capacity Study, with the help of Green Reef Environmental Institute and the World Wildlife Fund Mesoamerican Prmarine life, Hol Chan Marine Reserve has conducted a Carrying Capacity Study, with the help of Green Reef Environmental Institute and the World Wildlife Fund Mesoamerican PrMarine Reserve has conducted a Carrying Capacity Study, with the help of Green Reef Environmental Institute and the World Wildlife Fund Mesoamerican Project.

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Now the Langs — who are married — are working with the Marine Mammal Center on artwork that will highlight the problem with trash in the world's ocean and its impact on marineMarine Mammal Center on artwork that will highlight the problem with trash in the world's ocean and its impact on marinemarine life.

Daydream Island Living Reef Manager and marine biologist John Gaskell said that plastic pollution is a serious threat as it degrades very slowly polluting waterways for a very long time and impacting on the health of marine animals.

Marine life viewing is greatly impacted by the currents around the island, bringing schools of large fish.

Marine life in the Caribbean has been badly hurt in recent decades by everything from an introduced pathogen that killed off reef - grooming sea urchins to more familiar insults like overfishing and impacts of tourism and coastal development.

One way or the other, it's clear that the direct chemical impacts of accumulating CO2 on marine life have received less attention, and been less studied, than the climatological consequences.]

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.