Sentences with phrase «nature of algal blooms»

Due to the high cost and the intermittent nature of algal blooms, water utilities will be unable to solve this problem with the available technology (Environment Canada, 2001).

Not exact matches

Haggling over that crucial amount of flux is why the paper took so long to appear, says Smetacek, but oceanographer Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts lauds the detailed calculations in an accompanying commentary in Nature, adding that the study «was similar to natural» algal blooms.

In nature, nitrogen and phosphate pollution harms aquatic life by spurring the growth of algal blooms.

A new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature says ports and trade hotspots in the United States need to do more to detect and respond to foreign invaders like the quagga.Quaggas have transformed the Great Lakes ecosystem, outcompeting native species, harming fish populations, clogging up drinking water intake pipes and helping fuel toxic algal blooms.