Sentences with phrase «ocean pollution rises»

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While caring for animals affected by human activity such as overfishing, habitat degradation, plastic pollution and rising ocean temperatures, the team seeks to increase public engagement and advocacy along with inspire new individuals to make a difference.

Food production is rising sharply, requiring more carbon - based fuels and nitrogen - based fertilizers, both of which exacerbate global warming, river and ocean pollution, and a host of other ills.

Reducing certain kinds of air pollution could limit the rise of ocean waters and buy time to address CO2 emissions.

With the human population continuing to rise by 75 million or more per year and with torrid economic growth in much of the developing world, the burdens of deforestation, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, species extinction, ocean acidification and other massive threats intensify.

The amount of energy being trapped on Earth continues to rise at a quickening pace, because of the effects of the thickening cloud of greenhouse gas pollution in the atmosphere, but more of that energy than usual has been ending up in the oceans.

As plastic in the world's oceans continues to rise, researchers are pinpointing sources of pollution so that conservation efforts can stem the flow.

People have been concerned for some time about rising plastic pollution in oceans and lakes.

Rising ocean temperatures, local pollution and other changes can kill reefs by stressing corals.

With water pollution and temperatures on the rise, toxic algae cause serious problems nowadays for inland waters and for the oceans.

These threats include over-fishing, pollution, invasive species, disease, ocean acidification, warming ocean temperatures, and sea level rise.

Climate change, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, excess nutrient inputs, and pollution in its many forms are fundamentally altering the chemistry of the ocean, often on a global scale and, in some cases, at rates greatly exceeding those in the historical and recent geological record.

J.E.N. Veron, former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, writes that human pollution of the water, as well as human - generated carbon dioxide emissions which are causing ocean acidification and rising ocean temperatures are rapidly killing off corals.

Unsurprisingly, humans are to blame for this alarming rise in neurotoxic pollution, with the highest concentrations to be found in the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans.

The carbon pollution we continue pumping into the atmosphere is already causing our air and oceans to warm, glaciers and ice sheets to melt, and sea levels to rise at alarming rates.

Disputes within climate science concern the nature and magnitude of feedback processes involving clouds and water vapor, uncertainties about the rate at which the oceans take up heat and carbon dioxide, the effects of air pollution, and the nature and importance of climate change effects such as rising sea level, increasing acidity of the ocean, and the incidence of weather hazards such as floods, droughts, storms, and heat waves.

I differ too in that I'm an environmentalist and think generally global warming is a farce and we'd be better to spend the money on stopping pollution of rivers and oceans, buying the amazon, and researching and finding action plans for when oceans do rise, as they will one day, man made climate change or not.

The oceans are undergoing a period of unprecedented change, facing global stressors such as sea level rise, ocean acidification, rising sea surface temperatures, and plastic pollution.

If you would like to help make a change globally to help rid our ocean of plastic pollution, act locally through your local Surfrider Chapter's Rise Above Plastics work.

Rising population and over-grazing by livestock was the first theory but studies now show the drought resulted from changes in ocean surface temperatures Folland et al (1986) Giannini et al (2003) which are likely due in part to the sulphate aerosol pollution of Europe and North America Rotstayn & Lohmann (2002) Biasutti & Gainnini (2006) and thus it is the cleaning of emissions from power stations that has likely allowed the rains to return.

The increasing rate of extinctions, the rising number of species suffering population declines in the order of 90 per cent (not just tigers, but sparrows and voles, too), the destruction of rainforests, the pollution of the oceans — the evidence is plain to see.

Decades later, scientists concluded that the drop after 1940 was largely due to a rise in industrial pollution, which blocked some sunlight, augmented by a long - term cycle in the Pacific Ocean.

The spike therefore serves as a source of long - term ocean thermal pollution, which would be added to that from the anthropogenic atmospheric CO2 rise.

Some of the highlights of the first day were the intervention of Lewis Pugh, UN Patron of the Oceans, live from the Antarctica who analysed the unprecedented speed of climate change in the polar regions, pollution of the waters and the dangerous sea level rise.

Protecting the world's oceans from the rising threats of pollution, marine litter and overfishing will be a top cooperation priority for the European Commission and the UN Environment next year

Plastic pollution is surfing onto Indonesian beaches, settling onto the ocean floor at the North Pole, and rising through the food chain onto our dinner tables.

«Scientists say coral is succumbing to a complex combination of environmental factors including pollution, agricultural run - off, coastal development, over-fishing, and rising ocean temperatures, which researchers believe is causing a phenomenon called «bleaching,» that causes the coral to turn white and sometimes die.»