Sentences with phrase «study ocean pollution»

It could also be used to detect and study ocean pollution.

Not exact matches

Daniel Rosenfield and his colleagues at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem studied satellite data of air masses over the Indian Ocean, which contain large numbers of air pollution particles blown off the surrounding continents.

In a study published in the journal Science, researchers found that a brown pollution cloud over south Asia and the Indian Ocean is largely the result of burning wood and dung for cooking and heating.

The waters probed during this study, known as the California Current, are a hot spot of ocean acidification because of coastal upwelling, which brings naturally acidic waters to the surface, where they are made even more acidic by greenhouse gas pollution.

The study — one of very few to examine plastics in freshwater lakes — indicates that like oceans, freshwater habitats are also affected by plastic pollution.

Barrows, who has been studying microfiber pollution in oceans for more than five years, wanted to learn more about what's happening upstream in freshwater.

Grant's study this past spring noted that pollution levels at Huntington Beach were consistently higher at high tide, and rain has long been considered a good predictor of troubled ocean waters.

The island, which had detached itself from the ice shelf on Ellesmore Island in the Canadian arctic archipelago, was used as a laboratory for seismic studies of the Arctic Ocean floor, as well as charting currents, pollution, winds and ice structure.

Iron particles generated by cities and industry are being dissolved by human - made air pollution and washed into the sea — potentially increasing the amount of greenhouse gases that the world's oceans can absorb, a new study suggests.

I watched a documentary where they'd been used in marine pollution studies because they're a filter feeder and are found in oceans globally.

From studying the impact of pollution on dolphins to leading coral reef restoration in the Florida Keys, the Aquarium's research and conservation projects increase our understanding of the world's oceans.

I have a sort of mental chart with lots of arrows: actions that produce GHGs (e.g., coal - burning) causing a plethora of problems (& goods — like power), acid rain, ocean acidification, local ground, air, water pollution, GW, health problems & dangers for miners, military threats / expenses (according to Pentagon studies re oil), etc.; and also many arrows of good (some bad) coming out of measures to abate GW.

A recent study found a staggering amount of micro-plastic pollution in the San Francisco Bay but these beads have also been found in the open ocean, rivers and the Great Lakes,» said Assemblymember Bloom.

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.

Since then, we've completed 17 Expeditions to study plastic pollution in the ocean.

Vast swaths of the world's oceans are turning into «dead zones» as global warming and pollution strips them of oxygen, threatening marine life on a massive scale, a new study...

Chilean President Sebastian Pinera introduced a bill this week that would ban the use of single - use plastic bags across his country, citing studies that show that plastic pollution is destroying life in our oceans.

Some of these samples are also shared with scientists who are studying different aspects of plastic pollution in the oceans, like the presence of persistent organic pollutants.

Among the crew members is Garen Baghdasarian, a professor of Marine Biology at Santa Monica College who's received a PhD in Biology studying coral bleaching who's collaborating with 5 Gyres carrying out a study to find out if there's a relationship between plastic pollution and the decrease in the levels of phytoplankton in the ocean.