Sentences with phrase «phosphorus into»

The scale of the problem is daunting, and humans are still pumping about 10 million tonnes of extra phosphorus into our freshwaters every year.

Stormwater associated with climate change induced high intensity rainfall, carries nitrogen and phosphorus into surface waterways.

It's failing kidneys have difficulty excreting sufficient phosphorus into the urine.

Role: Acts as a hormone for the regulation and utilization of calcium and phosphorus: increases the intestinal absorption of these minerals from the GI tract and assists the movement of calcium and phosphorus into bone for skeletal development.

Promotes healthy bones — Vitamin D stimulates the absorption of calcium and phosphorus into the body, both of which are essential for maintaining bone health.

We also know that breaking nutritional ketosis with a lot of carbohydrate can cause dramatic fluid retention plus a shift of potassium, magnesium, and phosphorus into cells (all characteristics of refeeding syndrome).

As these deposits piled up on the sea floor, rapid chemical changes released massive amounts of calcium, magnesium and phosphorus into the ocean.

When fish urinate, they release phosphorus into the water.

Greenland's glacial rivers may flush some 400,000 tons of phosphorus into ocean waters — on par with the Mississippi or the Amazon.

The scale of the problem is daunting, and even though enormous attempts are done to reduce the runoff humans are still pumping about 10 million tonnes of extra phosphorus into our freshwaters every year.

Taking nitrogen and phosphorus into account brought down the researchers» average prediction of annual global carbon storage by 25 % compared with the IPCC figures, the team reports online today in Nature Geoscience.

A new analysis of these glassy remnants, or fulgurites, suggests that lightning fries the nutrient phosphorus into a more digestible form.

Not exact matches

The half that got loaded with phosphorus exploded into a sea of green soup of algae and became «the most photographed lake in science.»

Large amounts of phosphorus could be from the moon impacting (moon surface = KREEP (potassium, rare earth elements, phosphorus)-RRB- Even in their picture showing meteorites landing on molten surface (lol) shows a glowing molten moon — they ignore the big blob in the sky and say «meteorites» instead of «ejecta» — they should be put up against a wall and shot with silly string and cast out into the outer darkness of unemployment to wail and gnash their rotting teeth.

It's also a source of bone - building magnesium and phosphorus, immune - boosting iron and B vitamins such as niacin and B6 that help convert your food into energy.

With a background in ecology and environmental management, I made the move into agriculture for my PhD in which I am investigating the role of soil ecology in plant phosphorus acquisition.

Though we grow most of our own food, Australia is reliant on other countries for over half of the phosphorus that goes into our fertilisers, and onto the field.

Nitrogen fertilizer inputs into these phosphorus - limited ecosystems generate N2O (and NO) fluxes that are 10 to 100 times greater than the same fertilizer addition to nearby N - limited ecosystems106.

Red quinoa is one of the healthiest foods you can add into your meals, as it's a great source of manganese, copper, phosphorus and powerful antioxidants.

Putting into practice techniques that keep contaminants like manure, phosphorus and pesticides — as well as road salt — from running off the land into creeks and streams and leading to bigger problems like algal blooms, bacteria proliferation and other water quality problems.

Western New York has something to gain from an agreement struck in February between the United States and Canada that calls for reducing phosphorus getting into Lake Erie by 40 percent.

Having so much water might also slow or halt the movement of building blocks of life, such as carbon and phosphorus (the backbone of DNA), into oceans.

That positive hydrogen can also be bound to positive phosphorus opens up a world of fresh insight into biological processes.

Hosting an ocean in contact with rocks boosts the chances that Enceladus hosts life, because the rocks could leach elements like potassium, sulphur and phosphorus, vital for life, into the water.

Along with phosphorus accumulation came a global chemical chain reaction, which included other nutrients, that powered organisms to pump oxygen into the atmosphere and oceans.

To assess the influence of phosphorus on nitrogen removal, the researchers used a comparative approach — they examined the differences between how much nitrogen goes into lakes and how much comes out downstream — coupled with time - series analyses of nitrogen and phosphorus concentration in large lakes.

Part of this phosphorus has been replaced by saltier water and moved into the higher water layers.

The Rice lab combined iron, manganese and phosphorus (FeMnP) into a molecule that converts to a gas when vacuum is applied.

He said: «The warmer, wetter winters predicted for the future will result in more phosphorus transferred from agricultural land into the rivers and ultimately the oceans.

«Increased water availability from climate change may release more nutrients into soil in Antarctica: Increases in phosphorus load in soil and aquatic ecosystems may allow for more abundant life.»

The Rice team came up with a way to combine three of the most abundant metals — iron, manganese and phosphorus — into a precursor that can be deposited directly onto any substrate without damaging it.

Algae continued to flourish in proportion to the amount of phosphorus dumped into the water, even without nitrogen.

For years scientists have known that nitrogen and phosphorus, which commonly enter freshwater lakes in chemical fertilizers, play a role in eutrophication — the process by which algal blooms, turbidity, and oxygen deficiencies turn a lake into a dead zone, largely devoid of animal life.

«Today, phosphorus is also a limiting nutrient for the oceans, but the input of the phosphorus and iron into the ocean from these volcanoes has major paleoenvironmental and ecological consequences.»

It is also experimenting with no - till and minimum - till agriculture, techniques in which farmers inject seeds into the ground, avoiding the plow and thereby minimizing nitrogen and phosphorus runoff.

The IJC recommended that the total phosphorus target for Ohio's Maumee River, which drains agricultural land and empties into western Lake Erie, be cut 37 percent during the spring.

Since the detection of the toxin microcystin left nearly half a million Ohio and Michigan residents without drinking water for several days in early August, discussions of ways to prevent a recurrence have largely focused on the need to reduce the amount of phosphorus fertilizer that washes off croplands and flows into western Lake Erie to trigger harmful cyanobacteria blooms.

And, unfortunately, the microbes» speed is limited not by the availability of oil — or even its droplet size, which is why chemical dispersants have been used to break up the oil into microbe - friendly globules — but by the availability of various nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus that wash into the ocean via rivers carrying sediments from the continents.

But biologists at Canada's University of Guelph have figured out how to slip a phosphorus - digesting enzyme from a bacterium into a pig's DNA.

While phosphorus is recyclable, much of it gets washed from fields into the world's oceans or is lost to wastewater treatment plants after being excreted from our bodies.

Phosphorus seeps into soils primarily by way of fertilizer and manure, and what crops and other plants don't use to grow then leaks into waterways with rain and snowmelt runoff.

However, how much phosphorus makes it from the meltwater into the open oceans is not yet known.

Not only is Greenland's melting ice sheet adding huge amounts of water to the oceans, it could also be unleashing 400,000 metric tons of phosphorus every year — as much as the mighty Mississippi River releases into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new study.

As a result, the runoff from hog farms dumps millions of tons of phosphorus - tainted waste into the soil.

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

But with little oxygen in the early atmosphere, ancient microbes evolved a very different chemical pathway to break down orthophosphate into phosphite, a reduced form of phosphorus that has just three oxygens.

Semiconductors are made by bombarding pure silicon with atoms of phosphorus or boron, thus «doping» silicon to turn it into a semiconductor.

Often used geo - engineering methods are additions of aluminum salts or modified clays into the lake to lock excess phosphorus stored in the sediments.

Instead of using free - floating nutrients in the water, Repeta says, DeLong's study showed that the microbes must somehow be able to crack into nitrogen and phosphorus hidden deep inside organic molecules.

Every spring, an influx of nitrogen and phosphorus from lawns, farms, and sewage treatment plants runs into the water of the Bay.