Sentences with phrase «seawater more»

Rising levels of CO2 make seawater more acidic, leading to lower mineral saturation.

Their idea, simply put, is to pump excess seawater more than two miles into the air to the top of the Antarctic ice sheet, where it would freeze and stay put — for a very long time, although not forever.

This causes a chemical reaction that makes seawater more acidic, especially in colder regions.

This process turns the seawater more acidic, making it more difficult for some marine life to live.

20 million years Carbon from greenhouse gas emissions has steadily turned seawater more acidic, disrupting organisms accustomed to the slightly alkaline waters of the past 20 million years.

As if that wasn't bad enough, soaring levels of carbon dioxide are making seawater more acidic, which will make it harder and harder for coral polyps to build their rigid skeletons.

One - third of carbon dioxide emitted by humans enters the oceans, making seawater more acidic, the study noted.

In the tests, they burst through the surface, ejecting pillars of seawater more than a mile high while rippling out powerful shockwaves.

Not exact matches

Between high costs, high energy use, and even the possibility of environmental destruction — seawater treatment plants can accidentally take in and kill small marine animals — continued research is needed to make the technology safer and more efficient.

The Golden State also has more than 800 miles of coastline with limitless supplies of seawater from the Pacific Ocean.

In one of their all the more astounding discoveries they found that Galaxy Ultimate Marshmallow Hot Chocolate is saltier than seawater.

After spawning, they'll be thinner, with a little more salinity, and some may have more seawater flooding deeper shells.

San Diego County is building the largest seawater desalination plant in the Western hemisphere, while Orange County plans to turn more wastewater into drinking water.

Desalinating seawater, another option that had been under consideration, would be considerably more expensive than recycling — from 50 percent to 400 percent more so.

They would add a liter of the tissue to two liters of seawater and shake the mixture 75 times — no more, no less — to make «the individual light - producing cells pop out of the tissue,» according to Bill Ward, a bioluminescence researcher at Rutgers University in New Jersey who was a post - doc in Cormier's laboratory.

Although the water is natural, it can be several orders of magnitude more saline than seawater and is often laced with naturally occurring radioactive material.

Chemical clues in the mangroves and algae can also tell how salty the water was, which shows whether or not El Niño was raising the local sea level and causing more seawater to seep into the coastal wetlands.

Though the seawater still dissolved the salt layers, it did so much more slowly than the flow of freshwater.

A new, more energy - efficient seawater distillation membrane is designed to yield greater amounts of potable water, and less briny discharge

That signaled that the water and minerals in the surrounding sandstone had reached a chemical equilibrium with the injected seawater far more quickly than anticipated — in two years rather than a century.

Oxygen from seawater permeated only the upper millimeter or so of sediment, but the researchers noticed something happening much deeper in the mud, more than a centimeter below, as if oxygen were available down there, as well.

Fish raised in the more acidic seawater that would result from higher carbon dioxide levels forget to flee predators.

The albedo of newly fallen snow may approach 90 per cent, while the far - more - absorbent surface of seawater has a low albedo.

It's a much more difficulty task with seawater; the photocatalysts needed aren't durable enough to handle its biomass and corrosive salt.

Red rock shrimp, which rely on camouflage as they remove parasites from moray eels, doubled the amount of calcium in the cuticle that makes up its exoskeleton when the pH level was reduced, meaning the seawater was more acidic.

In 2012, researchers documented damage to oysters in hatchery tanks in Oregon fed with seawater that had become more acidic as a result of offshore upwelling patterns.

But laboratory studies have shown that the process can be disrupted, and shells can dissolve, as seawater becomes more acidic, or lower in pH. (Temperature has an impact, too.)

Large ones provide ecosystem services such as filtering seawater, recycling nutrients on reefs and providing habitat for other species, and are estimated to be able to live for more than 2300 years.

Now, marine scientists are wondering whether a dramatic, global shift in seawater chemistry could make some deep - sea hermit crabs bolder — or rather, more foolhardy.

From the 1960s through the 1980s, a new set of entrepreneurs latched onto the idea of mining manganese nodules, black lumps of rock — some as big as baseballs — in which metals are more concentrated than they are in seawater.

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.

A lower saturation rate is associated with more corrosive seawater.

Calera bubbles the flue gas from the Moss Landing power plant on the California coast through seawater to produce an aggregate from carbonate, the same mineral sea creatures use to build their shells, perhaps more familiar as chalk.

While fish should need more and more TMAO to survive ever greater depths, higher concentrations of the compound also draw in more and more seawater through osmosis, the process by which cells regulate their water content.

It makes up about 75 per cent of the known Universe, and here on Earth there are more than 100 million tonnes of it in every cubic kilometre of seawater.

The shrinking sea ice drives a classic positive feedback loop: as more ice melts, fewer patches of white snow reflect solar energy, and larger regions of dark, sunlight - absorbing seawater open up — both causing the ice to melt even faster.

As atmospheric CO2 levels increase from burning fossil fuels, this carbon dioxide is soaked up by seawater and makes the oceans more acidic.

The scientists hope to gain more insight into this by exploring how past changes in seawater pH have impacted these organisms, but also through further field and laboratory studies testing the effect of ocean acidification on these calcifiers.

So as the creatures churned up more sediment layers, more phosphate built up in ocean sediments and less was found in seawater.

As a result, more melt water is mixing with the salty seawater and pulses of warmer Atlantic seawater have intruded into the Arctic Ocean.

A chemist finds a way to cut supersalty discharge and CO2 as the Middle East relies ever more on seawater desalination

Engineers have tried erecting dams, spraying lava flows with seawater, and even blasting the stuff with aerial bombs, but more often than not these attempts have failed.

It turns out that the tug of seawaters just above the freezing point matters more than the breaking off of bergs.

More than 70 percent of all volcanic activity on Earth occurs on the seafloor, but details of these events are largely hidden from view by seawater.

When seawater gets more acid, he explains, it holds fewer free carbonate ions.

«As more seawater freezes it can expel the brine contained within, entraining large quantities of the methane locked in the ice,» explains AWI researcher Ellen Damm.

Seawater is a lot more complex than a simple solution of water and sodium chloride.

The scientists have established that herring can tolerate no more than 0.02 milligrams of total hydrocarbons per litre (mg thc / l) of seawater.

Sonntag and his colleagues have adapted a computer model that describes the mixing of layers of seawater to take into account two kinds of changes produced by the cyanobacterium Trichodesmium: more light absorption and less choppy waves.

It suggests making coastal development more burdensome through more stringent building codes, siting requirements, and forcing real estate title holders to fully disclose insurance risks associated with storm surges or damage from seawater intrusion.