Algae in sentence

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It will produce masses and masses of new algae.

The trouble is that when algae reproduces like this, it starves the water of oxygen.

We try to produce a robot that will eat the algae, consume it and make it safe.

Then, Hurricane Omar smashed them apart and ripped off their skin, leaving little bits of wounded tissue that would have a hard time healing, and big patches of dead skeleton that would get overgrown by algae.

Then the skeletons are overgrown by algae.

The whole animal world today lives on a stockpile of bacterial oxygen that is cycled constantly through plants and algae, and their waste is our breath, and vice versa.

As climate change warms the oceans, certain toxic algae species thrive.

Now, for all you non-seafaring folk, fouling is when things like algae and barnacles and other marine materials get stuck to the sides of ships and submarines.

See, Dr. Brennan was already investigating how things like surface roughness can prevent the attachment of organisms like algae.

All of the engineered surfaces he came up with algae eventually overcame.

First, they have a mouth like a parrot's beak, which is strong enough to bite coral, although mostly they're after algae.

This is key, because many reefs are overgrown with algae due to nutrient pollution from sewage and fertilizer that runs off of land.

That means that we can engineer the kind of biological precision that makes it possible to design a bacteria that can recycle metal, to grow fungi into furniture and even sequester renewable energy from algae.

Maybe there is a little bit of oxygen from some algae on the beach not far from here.

So this, for example, is hydrogen-generating algae.

So this is the infamous Caulerpa taxifolia, the so-called killer algae.

And the algae give the corals sugar, and the corals give the algae nutrients and protection.

But when it gets too hot, the algae can't make the sugar.

And where the diver is, this is probably where most of the reefs of the world are now, with very few corals, algae overgrowing the corals, lots of bacteria, and where the large animals are gone.

After a few years, between five and seven years, fish come back, they eat the urchins, and then the algae grow again.

We end up with things we've heard about before: red tides, for example, which are blooms of toxic algae floating through the oceans causing neurological damage.

But coral reefs depend on fish that perform a critical job by eating algae.

Because if left unchecked, these algae can kill coral and take over entire coral reefs, a costly change that is difficult or impossible to reverse.

So to understand how fish may prevent this, I spy on them while they're eating algae, which can be difficult for them to do in open parts of the reef exposed to predators, some of which, on rare occasion, appear to realize I'm watching them.

So my colleagues and I put massive video camera stands in a coral reef to remotely monitor entire feeding grounds that produce a lot of algae but are exposed to predators.

But these findings also suggest that overfishing, a common problem in coral reefs, not only removes fish, but it could break up the social network of remaining fish, which may hide more and eat less algae because they're missing critical information.

And it's covered with algae.

And these are three possibilities that we are working on to build hybrids, driven by algae or by the leaves at the end, by the most, most powerful parts of the plants, by the roots.

This picture was just taken by Brian Skerry a few months ago when we returned to the Phoenix Islands and discovered that, because it is a protected area and has healthy fish populations that keep the algae grazed down and keep the rest of the reef healthy, the coral is booming, is just booming back.

I would rather spend the time watching algae grow on the side of a fish tank than partake of this wholly awful concoction of several genre.

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