Sentences with phrase «tiny ocean life»

But I did not know (and it is very new science) that acidification also reduces a form of carbonate necessary for tiny ocean life to capture needed iron.

Not exact matches

Other foraminifera proved genetically identical to peers in the Arctic Ocean, suggesting a certain cosmopolitanism in these tiny creatures that have a globe - spanning range and can live in the deep sea wherever it may be found.

The newfound population of snailfish, which feed on tiny shrimp that scavenge detritus on the ocean floor, are believed to be the deepest living fish ever recorded.

To learn more about the mysterious lives of sea turtles, researchers attached tiny satellite trackers to young turtles and set them free in the open ocean.

An increasingly acidified Pacific Ocean is dissolving the shells of tiny marine snails that live along North America's western coast.

«Although tiny, these organisms are a vital part of the Earth's life support system, providing half of the oxygen generated each year on Earth by photosynthesis and lying at the base of marine food chains on which all other life in the ocean depends.»

«Living a «mixotrophic» lifestyle: Some tiny plankton may have big effect on ocean's carbon storage.»

The tiny male blanket octopus, which possesses a relatively huge copulatory organ, spends it entire life drifting on the ocean in search of a female so large he is no bigger than one of her eyes.

The shells of tiny marine snails that live along North America's western coast are dissolving in an increasingly acidified Pacific Ocean.

The rain then interacts with silicate - rocks and forms carbonate rocks in the silicate weathering process — or, in a planet that is so filled with life as ours, tiny organisms can grab the carbon - dioxide dissolved in the ocean to build shells or coral reefs.

Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp - like crustaceans that live throughout Earth's oceans.

(singular: archaeon) a group of tiny organisms often living in extreme environments, such as ocean vents and salt lakes.

I am a content creator and digital native (having grown up on the internet) currently living with my husband and daughter on a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

In one of the most harrowing true stories of World War II, three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific and find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open ocean.

And I'm fascinated by the idea that some of the moons of our own outer Solar System — particularly Saturn's tiny Enceladus — have vast under - ice oceans and quite possibly the conditions necessary for life to arise independently of Earth.

Not long afterward, Bang partnered with Penny Chisholm, an ecology professor at MIT, to write the next title in the Sunlight series, Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life (2009), followed by Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas (2012), and Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth (2014).

Swim for your life as the tiny fish Finley «Small Fry» Fryer in this thrilling and action packed ocean adventure.

Phytoplankton are tiny micro-algae that feed all forms of ocean life.

The first stages of the Ornate Ghostpipefish's life is a struggle; battling early life in the oceans currents as tiny larvae.

Wonder Gravity ~ The Pino and the Gravity User ~ story will have you playing in a world without land or ocean, where humans live with Pinos, which are tiny beings created by stars and if you eat their fruit you can become a gravity user.

Far out on Long Island, in the tiny village of Springs, with the ocean as background and in close contact with open, tree - studded fields where cattle graze peacefully, Jackson Pollock lives and paints.

Plankton, the tiny organisms at the bottom of the ocean food chain that so much of marine life depends on, drift with the ocean currents, but sometimes come together in dense patches under the surface that can later rise to the surface as red tides.

But I think fertilizing vast sterile ocean with iron and creating more food for ocean life [and consequently more food from humans] is a better way to go - you using CO2 for a good purpose rather just storing somewhere - and storing CO2 in gas / ice form has some possibility being suddenly released some way, whereas CO2 in skeleton of tiny creatures most likely ends up as limestone.

Otherwise, it will eventually become part of the awful detritus of flotsam and jetsam that the ocean is accumulating and that eventually becomes tiny bits of plastic too small to clean up, but horribly detrimental to marine life.

In the pristine and untouched reaches of the Antarctic ocean, a land of vast beauty, lives a tiny little, shrimp - like crustacean, krill.

One day, I hope to live a little closer to the ocean - in a tiny timeworn cottage that smells like summer and feels like freedom.