Sentences with phrase «ocean water becomes»

As a result, ocean water becomes more acidic.

If ocean water becomes too acidic, it can begin dissolving those shells, sometimes faster than the creatures can rebuild them.

As a result, ocean waters became stratified with little oxygen, a condition that proved deadly to marine life.

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With all this ocean comes a variety of water sports, like scuba diving with manta rays off Islas Marietas, boating around Los Arcos» reefs, and parasailing off of the popular Playa Los Muertos, but Puerto Vallarta really becomes alive when the sun dips below the horizon; steamy salsa clubs light up the streets, and rowdy local bars supply a steady stream of cervesa for the thirsty traveler.

Cross says that as the oceans absorb more carbon dioxide, the more acidic the water becomes, which hurts marine life and makes it harder for organisms to grow skeletons and build shells.

Global warming is affecting oceans, food and water supply, coastal areas and biodiversity, and creating what Gore calls «the largest business opportunity in world history, as the global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.»

Carried within the water column, accumulating on the ocean bottom or becoming entrained in marine sediments — a spill of Alberta bitumen might prove impossible to contain.

Like a meandering stream, our sins grow to become a white water river, and eventual the mighty oceans.

The better analogy, he says, is that the drop of water opens to the ocean and in the opening, takes the ocean in and becomes the ocean.

The heavier parts of the cloud descended and became an ocean of muddy water.

The sun evaporates water from the ocean, water vapor rises and becomes clouds.

Latest Forecast Suggests «Godzilla El Niño» May Be Coming to California: The strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched CalifornOcean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched Californocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once - in - a-generation storms this winter to drought - parched California...

Play dough can become a flower, a ball, a person, a scene... A water table can be a swimming pool, a science lab, a pond, ocean, or adventure scene.

Plastics in the ocean leech into the water, and often become part of a fish's food supply.

Forming in the system's colder outer regions, where volatile compounds such as water and carbon dioxide freeze out, makes it possible that the planets incorporated those ices and carried them along to a warmer place where they could melt, evaporate, and become oceans and atmospheres.

The cycle of Pacific Ocean surface water warming and cooling has become more variable in recent decades, suggesting El Niño may strengthen under climate change

But as climate patterns become less predictable and global ocean temperatures rise, the water temperature readings identified by the Rutgers team might bring to light similar patterns that will allow forecasters to adjust their intensity forecasts accordingly.

And around Antarctica, where even the surface ocean water is already quite cold and dense, some of that water in the ocean depths, which is also carbon rich, eventually warmed enough so that it became less dense than the water above it.

Ryskin proposes that huge deposits of methane and other gases, which are naturally produced in deep - sea waters, became trapped under the pressure of a then - stagnant global ocean.

TURTLE TROUBLE Green sea turtle populations in parts of the Great Barrier Reef are becoming increasingly female because their eggs are being incubated at higher temperatures due to warming ocean waters.

Around the Great Barrier Reef, warming ocean waters are becoming more acidic, bleaching the coral and threatening the rich community of life drawn to the reefs.

The warm waters give up their heat in the bitterly cold regions monitored by OSNAP, become denser, and sink, forming ocean - bottom currents that return southward, hugging the perimeter of the ocean basins.

So when more recent waves and tides brought in salty seawater from the ocean, the brackish water underneath the beaches became salty enough to release the cesium from the sand, and it was carried back into the ocean.

Besides shrinking in extent, the sea ice cap is also thinning and becoming more vulnerable to the action of ocean waters, winds and warmer temperatures.

During glacial periods, sea level falls as water gets locked up in the ice sheets, and in extreme cases the Bering Strait connecting the Bering Sea to the Arctic Ocean closes and becomes a land bridge.

As the planet coalesced from the dust, pressures and temperatures would have grown high enough to detach the water from the grains, freeing it up to become streams and oceans.

The council also predicts that by the end of the century the famously ice - locked Northwest Passage through the Arctic Ocean will become open water in summer.

Warm and saline water transported poleward cools at the surface when it reaches high latitudes and becomes denser and subsequently sinks into the deep ocean.

That knowledge could be crucial to ensure reefs continue to survive as oceans temperatures continue their inexorable rise and water becomes more acidic due to climate change.

Sustained by gravity, they are long ocean waves that increase in amplitude (the tsunamis become larger) as water depth decreases.

A hotspot on the ocean floor could become a living laboratory where marine scientists can study underwater volcanoes and the weird life that clusters around the plumes of superheated water spurting from hydrothermal vents.

Scientists believe Venus once had oceans, but because of its proximity to the sun the planet became so hot that all the water evaporated, according to NASA.

Prevailing scientific wisdom asserts that the deceleration of circulation diminishes the ocean's ability to absorb anthropogenic CO2 from the atmosphere as surface waters warm and become saturated with CO2.

More rain and outflow from rivers in a region of an ocean means sea water gets diluted and therefore becomes less salty.

«As ocean oxygen content declines and acidity increases in California waters it will become increasingly important to incorporate these changes into fisheries management practices,» says Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher Lisa Levin, Sato's advisor and a study coauthor.

If they begin to melt, however — particularly as they're exposed to warmer ocean water — the shelves become thinner and the grounding line begins to retreat backward, causing the glacier to become less stable and making the ice shelf more likely to break.

The deep waters of the modern Arctic flow into the North Atlantic via the Nordic seas, contributing up to 40 percent of the water that becomes North Atlantic Deep Water — known as the «ocean's lungs» for delivering oxygen and salt to the rest of world's ocwater that becomes North Atlantic Deep Water — known as the «ocean's lungs» for delivering oxygen and salt to the rest of world's ocWater — known as the «ocean's lungs» for delivering oxygen and salt to the rest of world's oceans.

The north - south gradient of increasing glacier retreat was found to show a strong pattern with ocean temperatures, whereby water is cold in the north - west, and becomes progressively warmer at depths below 100m further south.

Looking for life at Saturn «wasn't on Cassini's pre-launch list,» she adds, but when the spacecraft confirmed Enceladus» salty, water ocean after flying through the moon's enigmatic plumes and taking samples, it became one of the most compelling places beyond Earth to find extraterrestrial biology.

Sightings like Halpin's — that is, dolphins and other creatures like swordfish and loggerhead turtles finding themselves out of their usual waters — may become more common as ocean temperatures continue to rise.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

You can't tell by standing on a beach and watching waves roll in, but experiments show that ocean water is becoming more acidic.

The research published in Nature Communications found that in the past, when ocean temperatures around Antarctica became more layered - with a warm layer of water below a cold surface layer - ice sheets and glaciers melted much faster than when the cool and warm layers mixed more easily.

Hurricanes and tropical cyclones become up to 50 percent more intense when passing over oceans inundated with fresh water

Despite continuous injection of a large amount of very cold (− 15 ◦ C) water in these pure freshwater experiments, substantial portions of the ocean interior become warmer.

Cold, polar waters constantly absorb CO2, sink as it becomes more dense, and is transported to the equatorial waters via the ThermoHaline and outgases in the warmer waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

As ocean acidification proceeds, carbonate becomes less and less abundant, so at one point the carbonate concentration in the water is limiting the precipitation of calcium carbonate and organisms have a harder time to make their shell and skeleton since one of the bricks needed to make the wall is becoming less and less abundant.

Dan H.: «Cold, polar waters constantly absorb CO2, sink as it becomes more dense, and is transported to the equatorial waters via the ThermoHaline and outgases in the warmer waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.»

If less carbon dioxide makes it into the water, the ocean will stop becoming more acidic, and calcium carbonate will be left available to the organisms that use it to build shells.

As there is a vast amount of fresh water in the glacial period, in the new ice sheets, the ocean becomes Salter (3 %).