Sentences with phrase «ocean plankton»

The evidence which suggests that extreme environmental conditions caused a mass die - off of ocean plankton in parts of the tropics, will be updated and some of the implications of this will be considered.

Sea salt comes from sea spray over the oceans, dust from dry desert areas, black carbon from burning of forests and fossil fuels, sulphates derive from ocean plankton and burning coal, nitrates derive from fertiliser use, car exhausts and lightning, and secondary organics come from the stew of volatile organic compounds from industrial and natural sources alike.

These organisms, found mostly in certain ocean plankton communities, live a flexible, «mixotrophic» lifestyle.

A wide range of smartphone apps could allow citizens to do everything from monitoring air and water quality to tracking ocean plankton populations from space.

That fell through, but Russ George apparently pursuaded tribal leaders they could sequester carbon, and make millions of dollars, by seeding ocean plankton with algae.

Since we do know that CO2 concentrations have been steadily increasing for the last hundred years, it is almost certain that the true marine productivity / ocean plankton baseline was actually much higher a half century ago.

Based on a century of ocean plankton science and the 10 international experiments on iron fertilization over the last 15 years we are confident that the scale, methods and technologies of the work we are planning will have positive impacts on all fronts, improving water quality, buffering surface water acidity, recharging the marine food chain, and safely sequestering enormous amounts of CO2 to help slow climate change.

Cheaper schemes — feeding iron to ocean plankton, launching fleets of automated ships that spray saltwater aerosol — are less assured of success and still amount to tens of billions of dollars a year.

As aerosol pollution is predicted to decrease over the next few decades, unmasking of the greenhouse effect may lead to accelerated global warming.storms and ocean plankton The human - generated aerosols are derived from industry, motor vehicles and vegetation burning.