Sentences with phrase «nitrogen from local waters»

Researchers found that the Bronx River mussels were generally healthy, and their tissues had high amounts of a local nitrogen isotope, indicating that they removed nitrogen from local waters.

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Too much chemical intrusion is polluting the local drinking water and marshlands, especially nitrogen, from industrial polluters, inadequate sewage infrastructure, and fertilizers and pesticides from farms and lawns.

It was, and continues to be, nitrogen pollution — a problem in water bodies throughout the world that causes harmful algal blooms, kills fish, and prevents people from enjoying local beaches, bays and shellfish.

The liquid condensed at the bottom evaporates creating local cooling and rises; the way ocean water and all water does from the surface as an enormous pool of evaporative phase change refrigerant for the surface (and the atmospheric bath of nitrogen / oxygen).