News tagged with tides toxicity

Tons of dead fish pulled from California marina

It could take a week - and the smell could get pretty bad - before crews manage to scoop and vacuum up tons of dead sardines from a Southern California marina. ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Moderately Large' Potential for Spring, Summer Red Tide Outbreak in Gulf of Maine

(PhysOrg.com) -- The potential for an outbreak of the phenomenon called "red tide" is expected to be moderately large this spring and summer, according to researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1




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Cactus may give farmers a cure for poisoned crop land

The prickly pear cactus may not sound like a trendy cash crop, but it could become a phenomenon among farmers on the arid west side of California's San Joaquin Valley.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sunlight and bunker oil a fatal combination for Pacific herring

The 2007 Cosco Busan disaster, which spilled 54,000 gallons of oil into the San Francisco Bay, had an unexpectedly lethal impact on embryonic fish, devastating a commercially and ecologically important species for nearly ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Hey, bacteria, get off of my boat!

Submerge it and they will come. Opportunistic seaweed, barnacles, and bacterial films can quickly befoul almost any underwater surface, but researchers are now using advances in nanotechnology and materials science to design ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oil-slick ship at risk of breaking up: NZealand PM

Fears grew Wednesday that a ship stuck on a New Zealand reef may break up and release a new tide of oil, as its captain was charged over the nation's worst maritime pollution disaster.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Toxic red tides: Scientists track neurotoxin-producing algae

which can increase the amount of harmful toxins in the shellfish that California residents consume — ramping up in frequency and severity locally, scientists at USC have developed a new algae monitoring method in hopes ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Some shellfish gathering in Washington state closed due to presence of toxins

All of King County and most of the eastern portion of Kitsap County in Washington state have been closed to shellfish gathering after tests this week revealed the presence of toxins that can cause paralytic shellfish poisoning.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

AIDS: HIV drugs boost prevention hopes

Heterosexuals who take daily AIDS drugs reduce the risk of being infected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) by nearly two-thirds, ground-breaking studies said on Wednesday.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Learning lessons from an HIV cure

For doctors confronting the AIDS epidemic, past ambitions always boiled down to two main goals: prevention, or finding ways to protect people not yet exposed to HIV, through vaccines, safe sex education or other means; and ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Native ants use chemical weapon to turn back invading Argentine ants

(PhysOrg.com) -- Argentine ants are taking over the world – or at least the nice temperate parts. They've spread into Mediterranean and subtropical climates across the globe in sugar shipments from Argentina, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sewage-derived nitrogen increasingly polluting Caribbean ecosystems

Nitrogen pollution in our coastal ecosystems, the result of widespread use of synthetic agricultural fertilizers and of human sewage, leads to decreased water transparency, the loss of desirable fish species, and the emergence ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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