Sentences with phrase «marine plant and animal life»

While the National Park Service helps keep the islands of Anacapa, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and San Miguel a pristine sanctuary for an abundance of marine plant and animal life, waste such as cans, bottles, and lobster traps will occasionally wash ashore from the depths of the Pacific Ocean.

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Animals have incredible variation in their body shapes and ways of life, including the plant - like, immobile marine sponges that lack heads, eyes, limbs and complex organs, parasitic worms that live inside other organisms (e.g. nematodes, platyhelminths), and phyla with eyes, skeletons, limbs and complex organs that dominate the land in terms of species numbers (arthropods) and body size (chordates).

Marine biology is the scientific study of the plants, animals, and other organisms that live in the ocean.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

Calculations by the French Institute for Radiological Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN) in Cherbourg have calculated that, close to the Fukushima plant, there is a risk of harm to marine life, particularly to animals born in the spring.

Soon, plant - eating animal life followed (including Arthropods such as the scorpion - like Eurypterids that moved from marine waters into brackish then fresh water — some species becoming amphibious and emerging onto land for part of their life cycle after becoming capable of breathing in both water and air — which eventually evolved into insects, and finally, by 379 million years ago, animals with backbones known as «vertebrates» which evolved from Fishes that moved onto land to evolve into Amphibians and eventually into Reptiles, Dinosaurs, Birds, and Mammals — Niedzwiedzki et al, 2010).

[64] Animals source, specifically marine life such as fish, krill, and mussels, and plant sources such as flaxseed, soybean and canola oil, are particularly rich in omega - 3 fatty acids.

Prepare yourself for a journey to the sea and the beauty of marine and island life that exists among Belize's great barrier reef, into the lush plant and animal life of the Belize jungle or explore mystifying Maya ruins.

Kayaking the Strait of Georgia opens the door to a rich marine environment, home to an estimated three thousand species of plant and animal life.

Made up of a string of more than 40 tiny paradise islands, this national park is abundant in animal, plant and marine life owing to the incredible crystal waters with coral reefs, imposing jagged limestone cliffs, glittering sandy coves, lush tropical jungle, and dreamy azure lagoons.

This protected park covers more than 100 square kilometres of land and sea in total, which provides sanctuary to a wealth of rare and exotic animals, plants, and marine life.

Stories and discussions about Nature Conservation, Biology, Animals, Plants, Marine Life, the Reef, Rain Forest and other Ecosystems.

Activities and tours at the Mawamba Lodge include taking a boat ride through the Tortuguero Canals, a navigable network of lakes and canals that offer visitors some of Costa Rica's most stunning variety of plant, animal and marine life.

A land of contrasts, Australia is home to lush green rainforest teeming with animals and plants, colorful and exciting marine life, impressive protected areas like the Kakadu National Park, a multitude of culturally significant areas, spectacular waterfalls and lively cities.

The 430 - page report was coauthored and edited by three climate science researchers: Craig D. Idso, Ph.D., editor of the online magazine CO2 Science and author of several books and scholarly articles on the effects of carbon dioxide on plant and animal life; Robert M. Carter, Ph.D., a marine geologist and research professor at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia; and S. Fred Singer, Ph.D., a distinguished atmospheric physicist and first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Service.

Marine life of all kinds are moving to cooler areas, «1.5 to five times as fast as anything we are seeing on the ground, the report says, and disease is spreading in plant and animal populations... which will also effect humans.

Nitrate pollution around the costs of Japan and Korea could change the makeup of local marine life, both for plants and animals, according to scientists in both the U.S. and Korea.

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