Sentences with phrase «toxic algal blooms»

A new report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature says ports and trade hotspots in the United States need to do more to detect and respond to foreign invaders like the quagga.Quaggas have transformed the Great Lakes ecosystem, outcompeting native species, harming fish populations, clogging up drinking water intake pipes and helping fuel toxic algal blooms.

Outside of oceans, the researchers want these particular fish to be useful in freshwater environments as well; for instance, detecting toxic algal blooms, which are increasingly problematic.

Phosphorus is the biggest cause of water quality degradation worldwide, causing «dead zones», toxic algal blooms, a loss of biodiversity and increased health risks for the plants, animals and humans that come in contact with polluted waters.

Last Congress, President Obama signed legislation to combat the serious problem of toxic algal blooms affecting our oceans, beaches, rivers and lakes.

At the same time, elevated temperatures are causing more toxic algal blooms that sicken people via contaminated seafood.

He has thrown his weight behind the «Trash Free Seas» bill to address marine debris, and cosponsored an important bipartisan bill to mitigate toxic algal blooms and dead zones.

In 2014, 13,000 acres of shellfishing grounds were closed because of toxic algal blooms.

The researchers found that multiple cyanotoxins from toxic algal blooms are present year - round, albeit in very low concentrations.

When filter feeders are present during toxic algal blooms, they can concentrate algal toxins in their tissues.

Determining how much carbon is sequestered during such experiments has proved difficult, however, and scientists have raised concerns about potential adverse effects, such as toxic algal blooms.

A newly published study published online in the April 24 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled, «Ocean warming since 1982 has expanded the niche of toxic algal blooms in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans,» demonstrates that one ocean consequence of climate change that has already occurred is the spread and intensification of toxic algae.

Previously, some scientists had suggested that toxic algal blooms may have tainted the lake.

NOAA, NASA, EPA, and the U.S. Geological Survey announced, in April, a $ 3.6 million multi-agency research effort designed to be an early warning system for freshwater nuisance and toxic algal blooms by using satellites that can gather color data from freshwater bodies during scans of the Earth.

Overfishing also makes the ocean more prone to toxic algal blooms, jellyfish blooms and dead zones.

Ocean climate cycles could help understand and better predict the emergence of toxic algal blooms.

This collection of stories investigates low - dose arsenic contamination in rice and other risks to food safety like toxic algal blooms, E. coli in raw meat, BPA in plastics and poisonous honey.

When this water, called submarine groundwater discharge (SGD), trickles through contaminated soil and rock, it can pick up and transport a variety of ions, nutrients, and chemicals to the sea — including pollutants that contribute to coastal dead zones and toxic algal blooms.

Human health challenges as a result of global warming range from injuries after more intense storms to toxic algal blooms

The freshwater bodies on 38 percent of Earth's land area (not including Antarctica) are overly enriched with phosphorus, leading to potentially toxic algal blooms and less available drinking water, researchers report January 24 in Water Resources Research.

Environmental proposals include a $ 65 million initiative to combat toxic algal blooms and ongoing investments in clean energy infrastructure and offshore wind projects.

US Senator Chuck Schumer is pushing for more money to fight toxic algal blooms in upstate New York lakes.

«Ocean conditions contributed to unprecedented 2015 toxic algal bloom.»

A study led by researchers at the University of Washington and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration connects the unprecedented West Coast toxic algal bloom of 2015 that closed fisheries from southern California to northern British Columbia to the unusually warm ocean conditions — nicknamed «the blob» — in winter and spring of that year.

Astrid Schnetzer, associate professor of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences at NC State, wanted to know how domoic acid gets transported to depth via marine snow after a toxic algal bloom and how long it may persist.

Schnetzer and colleagues created their own toxic algal bloom in the lab using P. australis algae, one of the most toxic Pseudo-nitzschia species and one that blooms along the U.S. West Coast.

Locals and others suspected a toxic algal bloom (see here for image), or perhaps some sort of chemical release, or millions of microscopic «crustacean eggs».

An unprecedented coastwidwide toxic algal bloom linked to anomalous ocean conditions.

In 2014, the news was especially urgent in Toledo, where a toxic algal bloom in Lake Erie forced health officials to declare the water unsafe for drinking and bathing.

Not exact matches

At 11 a.m., Toxics Targeting Inc. holds a news conference releasing photos of algal blooms threatening the sources of public drinking water for residents of Syracuse, Auburn, Rochester, Ithaca and other communities across New York, state Capitol, third floor, adjoining to the LCA Press Room, Albany.

It also completely removes funds for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, a program devoted to cleaning toxic contamination as well as other problems including invasive species and harmful algal blooms in the Great Lakes.

Algal blooms that are toxic to fish and animals would increase by 5 percent.

These findings have implications for food safety policies in areas affected by toxic marine algal blooms.

«A fundamental question has been whether we can directly link expansion of harmful algal blooms to a warming ocean; this paper provides critical, quantitative evidence for just that trend, confirming an expected, but difficult to test, direct link between toxic blooms to climate,» said Dr. Raphael Kudela, Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, a national toxic algae expert who was not part of the study.

Burleson identifies and analyzes toxins created by the «red tide» phenomena — an algal bloom that looks red or brown and can make oysters and shellfish toxic to eat.

Spatiotemporal changes in the genetic diversity of harmful algal blooms caused by the toxic dinoflagellate

Increasing algal bloom is poisoning fish and shells, and it has become a health hazard for human beings as well: toxic algae are responsible 60,000 cases of food poisoning worldwide every year.

It is important for veterinarians to encourage owners to keep their pets (and themselves) away from harmful algal blooms as prevention is key to avoiding potential toxic signs.

Harmful algal blooms don't just wreak havoc by causing oxygen - starved dead zones, they have the potential to be toxic to humans, land animals and aquatic life.

«Toxic or harmful algal blooms are not a new phenomenon, although many people may know them by other names such as red tides.

The impacts of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the Great Lakes are being assessed using a range of economic metrics capturing the loss of services provided by the lakes (e.g. increased drinking water treatment costs, property value losses, beach closures), as well as the direct effects of toxic microcystin on public health (Bingham et al 2015, IJC 2013)-- such events are expected to increase in frequency and severity in a changing climate (Michalak et al 2013).