Sentences with phrase «worsen eutrophication»

As with air pollution, evidence suggests that human - driven climate change will, on average, worsen eutrophication in freshwater and marine systems.

According to the report, the worst scenario for the Baltic Sea region is worsening eutrophication situation.

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But other elements could potentially also contribute to a collapse: an accelerating extinction of animal and plant populations and species, which could lead to a loss of ecosystem services essential for human survival; land degradation and land - use change; a pole - to - pole spread of toxic compounds; ocean acidification and eutrophication (dead zones); worsening of some aspects of the epidemiological environment (factors that make human populations susceptible to infectious diseases); depletion of increasingly scarce resources [6,7], including especially groundwater, which is being overexploited in many key agricultural areas [8]; and resource wars [9].

They are worsened by eutrophication, or a density of nutrients, as well as sewage inputs in coastal waters.