Sentences with phrase «of dying fish»

Streams of dying fish running through forests of dead trees are just the beginning: Acid rain also causes the corrosion of building materials like limestone and marble.

Not exact matches

One of the difficulties was that the water would get warm and the fish would die before they got back into port.

Even if it could be proved that no human died in any of the first nine plagues, it is nearly certain that countless fish, frogs, animals, and insects died over the course of these nine plagues.

Conservationist Norman Myers, author of The Sinking Ark: A New Look at the Problem of Disappearing Species (Pergamon, 1979), estimates that with the advent of technology between 1600 and 1900, an average of one species of bird or mammal (little is known about reptiles, amphibians, fishes, invertebrates and plants) disappeared every four years, compared to one every 1,000 years during the «great dying» of the dinosaurs.

Head on over to his blog and read the rest of his post, and while you are at it, check out his intriguing post on Jesus being Yahweh and his post on whether or not Jonah died in the belly of the fish.

@transframer — With all due respect, you didn't really address the issues raised regarding: 1) actual # of extant vertebrate species; 2) the fact that land inverts «breath air» and would have drowned if not accounted for on the ark; 3) that the dino genera identified in the wiki link far exceeds 50; 4) the need to account for extinct land vertebrates in addition to those still around; 5) that many marine fish would have died as their habitat's salinity dropped; 6) that your % allotments for food / water don't reflect the fact that many forms require fresh meat and / or eat disproportionately to their sizes; 7) the specific dietary / environmental constraints involved in the migration to the Ark and the return trips from Mt. Ararat.

A prequel (of sorts) for the classic Dr. Seuss book One Fish, Two Fish releases today, more than two decades after the children's book author died.

On Sunday, over 800 people died when the overcrowded 66 - foot fishing trawler collided with a Portuguese container ship, causing the passengers to panic and quickly shift to one side of the boat, making it keel over.

We have been told that Jonah will survive, but Jonah, in the belly of the fish, still thinks that he is going to die.

And the author tells us in advance that Jonah does not die in the belly of the fish.

Raised in Portugal, in the fertile lands of Alemquer, I die a refugee, dead from the foreign air and its foul decay, food for the hungry fish in a brutish sea, that crashes against these wild Abyssinian sands, so unlike Alemquer, and so far away

Give a man religion and he'll die of starvation while he prays for fish.

Absolutely crucial to Fish's interpretation of Milton's work is a document discovered among Milton's papers in the nineteenth century called De Doctrina Christiana, basically a tract arguing on behalf of a number of heresies, especially these three openly avowed heterodoxies: that the Son was not coeternal with the Father, that the soul dies and is only later resurrected with the body, and that God created the world not out of nothing but out of the divine substance (interestingly enough, Isaac Newton's Christology was similarly Arian).

Over use of fertilisers is turning our farmlands into deserts, and the fishes in our seas and rivers are dying.

Shortly after the news that Tilikum, the killer whale featured in Black Fish, was dying, SeaWorld has released a statement saying that the generation of killer whales currently in their...

On the current iteration of the menu, dishes like to - die - for Brussels Sprouts with sambal sauce, Thai basil, mint and peanuts, Ahi Tuna Tartare, Tempura Fish Tacos, 10 - ounce Kurobuta Pork Chop and Jumbo Lump Crab Cakes delight.

40 % of what's caught globally is discarded, in the form of undersized fish, endangered sharks, turtles, and dolphins — left to die, or already dead;

They must be serving Salad this way in Paradise:) I could die a thousand deaths over that Fish Salad of yours which looks prettier than rainbow:)

We already have a number of dead zones and fish dependent animals dying off at an alarming rate (whales, sharks, polar bears to name a few).

The bones of it are: eat as much rice, potatoes and pasta as you like; add to that lean fish and meat; and go crazy on fruit and vegetables (except avocado — this is not for the Deliciously Ella die - hards among us).

In stocking any stream, man is limited by the amount of feed available; put 2,000 fish in water capable of supporting only 1,000, and half will die or all will be stunted.

Two workers at Elgin Mental Health Center have been charged after a former Chicago man died at the facility of a severe allergic reaction to fish.

That means that each fisher has a 0.0011 % chance of dying each day on the job.

Hundreds of fish are dying in Lake Arlington - in northwest suburban Arlington Heights, and park district officials are trying to figure out why.

Hundreds of fish died in Lake Arlington, and Arlington Heights Park District officials are trying to figure out why.

The appearance of Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a student - led rally and walkout protesting gun violence provided some fish - out - of - water images of the besuited state executive lying on the ground for the «die - in» and clapping somewhat out of syncopation with chants.

County lawmakers, scientists and environmentalists acknowledge nitrogen overloading in local waterways is the biggest contributor to the recent die - off of fish and turtles.

All of the untreated fish with fewer macrophages died within 72 hours of receiving S. flexneri, the researchers reported in December in Current Biology.

During the 60 million years before the die - off, various types of fish and sharks had grown steadily in size, with some fish reaching the length of a school bus.

Ecosystems left in the wake of a mass extinction that occurred about 359 million years ago (artist's representation shown) contained fish and other vertebrates that were much smaller than the species that lived before the die - off, a new study suggests.

Fish — Consider a Valentine's meal with fish that is high in omega - 3 fatty acids, which reduce your risk of dying from a heart attFish — Consider a Valentine's meal with fish that is high in omega - 3 fatty acids, which reduce your risk of dying from a heart attfish that is high in omega - 3 fatty acids, which reduce your risk of dying from a heart attack.

But in British Columbia, the plethora of fish farms near rivers means that wild juveniles are catching sea lice and dying off at alarming rates.

Sure enough, salmon with a certain pattern of gene expression in their gill tissue were 13.5 times more likely to die than those that didn't carry the «you've not got long to live» signature, as co-author and University of British Columbia (U.B.C.) fish physiologist Tony Farrell puts it.

«Well, it looks like pinyon is dying,» said Leland Pierce, a coordinator of terrestrial species recovery at the New Mexico Department of Fish and Game.

The oldest known fish, a koi, was a scarlet female named Hanako, who reportedly died at the age of 226 years on the memorable date 7/7/77.

Since the 1950s, more than 7 million dolphins have died in waters west of Mexico and Central America because of the «fishing - on - dolphins» method used to capture schools of tuna.

If oxygen levels drop too low, shrimp, fish, and other sea life must flee or die, leaving a dead zone that sometimes grows to the size of the state of New Jersey.

Fortunately for the Australian fishing industry, which uses pilchards primarily as bait, this die - off — amounting to an estimated 10 percent of the pilchard stock — is not expected to have a serious economic impact.

Following each round of shocking, the fourth member of the INHS team, the most junior guy in the boat, slung the dying fish over the side.

«Days after sockeye passed through extremely fast - moving water, we started to see fish dying only a short distance from their spawning grounds,» said Nicholas Burnett, a research biologist at UBC and lead author of the study, published in Physiological and Biochemical Zoology.

Hundreds of marine turtles die every year after becoming entangled in rubbish in the oceans and on beaches, including plastic «six pack» holders and discarded fishing gear.

The piece includes several embedded audio examples of soundscapes that demonstrate the variety of research problems that scientists can analyze, such as seasonal changes in the «voices» of Australian bushland and the way a dying Fijian coral reef sounds after being emptied of fish.

True, the timing of the die - off was suspicious — malathion has been known to kill crustaceans, and the spraying had already killed hundreds of fish on Staten Island.

Some fish swim up rivers and die; birds sprinkle the land with their guano; and those deep - sea nutrients slowly work their way into ecosystems on land with the help of bald eagles and bears and the like.

Using tags surgically implanted into thousands of juvenile salmon, UBC researchers have discovered that many fish die within the first few days of migration from their birthplace to the ocean.

To make matters worse, fully 85 percent of 101 fishers tested from 2012 to 2014 showed exposure to rodenticides, meaning even those that did not die outright were potentially sickened, which could impair their ability to hunt, reproduce or elude predators.

When the researchers put cane toad tadpoles, native frog tadpoles, fish, and leeches in water containing scraps of cane toad tissue, they found that most of the native animals died within about a day (and sometimes much faster)-- even when they couldn't touch the tissue directly.

Scripps graduate student Elizabeth Sibert and Professor Richard Norris analyzed the microscopic teeth of fishes found in sediment cores around the world and found that the abundance of ray - finned fish teeth began to explode in the aftermath of the mass die - off of species, which was triggered by an asteroid strike in the Yucatan Peninsula.

As many as 30 million fish may be caught this way every year, and 90 percent of those may die.

As the precipitation «killed» lakes and streams, alarming studies reported massive die - offs of trees and fish.