Phosphorus and nitrogen contribute to water pollution and cause harmful algal blooms. New research shows how mats of floating flower beds can take advantage of these nutrients while cleaning the water.
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Windermere has seen extensive algal blooms, attracting attention over its ecological consequences. But this is nothing new.
Lakes in the northern hemisphere are rapidly losing their ice cover due to rising greenhouse gas emissions. The only way to preserve lake ice is to limit GHG emissions and slow down climate change.
The growing frequency of climate extremes affected human health and caused wide-scale damages to the ecosystems that people depend upon, including agriculture, fisheries and freshwater.
The consequences of a massively connected globe are real — and not limited to disease pandemics.
When we build marinas, ports, jetties and coastal defences we introduce hard structures that weren’t there before, and which reduce the amount of sunlight hitting the water.
The possible culprits are: a sudden algae bloom; a change in pool alkalinity; or a chemical reaction in the water. How do these cause a change in the colour of the water?
Toxic algae blooms like the intense one now fouling Florida’s waterways harm wildlife and people in various ways. They’re also on the rise.
The oxygen is being sucked out of the ocean, and while much of it is happening far below the surface, it will still affect us above.
Low oxygen levels in the oceans can dramatically change the community of organisms that live there – but new techniques to re-introduce oxygen have given a breath of life to a Swedish fjord.
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Associate Professor and York University Research Chair in Global Change Biology, York University, Canada
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Prize Fellow in Water Engineering, Architecture and Civil Engineering Department, University of Bath
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Associate Professor of Biological Oceanography, University of South Florida
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Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Agroecology, Florida International University
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Lake Ecologist and Modeller, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Post Doctoral Associate in the Institute of Environment, Florida International University
