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If we were to lose these crab species or they were able to become substantially less abundant, that has implications for sediment turnover. It has implications for forest regeneration and growth. It has implications for the tidiness of our beach and ocean environments because potentially you don't have the vultures coming in and cleaning things up. – Jennifer Lavers	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We have found Marshall Islands are resilient in the face of rising seas and that sediment supply to some atolls is out-pacing sea level rise, what we don't know is how that will play out in coming decades. – Murray Ford	Found on CNN 3 years ago
During the initial shipboard assessments, the unusual coloration of the sediment layer quickly caught our attention ; it clearly differed from the layers above it, we had found a layer originally formed on land, not in the ocean. – Johann Klages	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Everything in the lake has been dramatically altered by landscape change, dams and sand mining, the amount of water in the lake, in the Yangtze River, the sediment going in and going out - everything is affected by human activity. – David Shankman	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The melting of ice sheets after Snowball Earth caused a dramatic rise in sea level, ultimately flooding the continents, driving a remarkable retreat of shorelines and the development of clearer ocean water, researchers have long been aware that the timing of Snowball Earth and the development of more complex life seem to have coincided, but no one has really thought about how the oceans being starved of sediment might have helped ancient organisms thrive in the oceans. – Milo Barham	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Zones like the one we investigated are not uncommon along rifts, so I expect that similar reservoirs may exist elsewhere in the Okinawa Trough as well as other sediment-covered continental back-arc basins around the world. – Takeshi Tsuji	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
It's not a problem of the lack of water, it's the lack of sediment. – Duong Van Ni	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
At that stage there was no way they could get anywhere near the boys. Conditions were really quite bad, the water flow was very strong and the suspended sediment made visibility very low. To be fair, the chances of getting far were not high. – Bill Whitehouse	Found on CNN 5 years ago
What happens with the sediment is it just smothers it, while higher nutrients cause algae to out-compete the corals. – Bradley Opdike	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Sediment builds up over time at the bottom of the tank, causing corrosion, partially draining it removes the sediment and keeps the heater running more efficiently — and keeps it running longer. – John Bodrozic	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They simply break into small bits as they weather out of the sediment before they are found. The preservation of ours is truly unusual, but a great deal of that may be due to the fact that we were able to locate them while they were still deep underground. – Peter Houde	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There is a potential for land reclamation through the displacement of the sediment the rivers carry. – Malik Khan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

If we were to lose these crab species or they were able to become substantially less abundant, that has implications for sediment turnover. It has implications for forest regeneration and growth. It has implications for the tidiness of our beach and ocean environments because potentially you don't have the vultures coming in and cleaning things up.

– Jennifer Lavers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have found Marshall Islands are resilient in the face of rising seas and that sediment supply to some atolls is out-pacing sea level rise, what we don't know is how that will play out in coming decades.

– Murray Ford

Found on CNN
3 years ago

During the initial shipboard assessments, the unusual coloration of the sediment layer quickly caught our attention ; it clearly differed from the layers above it, we had found a layer originally formed on land, not in the ocean.

– Johann Klages

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Everything in the lake has been dramatically altered by landscape change, dams and sand mining, the amount of water in the lake, in the Yangtze River, the sediment going in and going out - everything is affected by human activity.

– David Shankman

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The melting of ice sheets after Snowball Earth caused a dramatic rise in sea level, ultimately flooding the continents, driving a remarkable retreat of shorelines and the development of clearer ocean water, researchers have long been aware that the timing of Snowball Earth and the development of more complex life seem to have coincided, but no one has really thought about how the oceans being starved of sediment might have helped ancient organisms thrive in the oceans.

– Milo Barham

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Zones like the one we investigated are not uncommon along rifts, so I expect that similar reservoirs may exist elsewhere in the Okinawa Trough as well as other sediment-covered continental back-arc basins around the world.

– Takeshi Tsuji

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

It's not a problem of the lack of water, it's the lack of sediment.

– Duong Van Ni

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

At that stage there was no way they could get anywhere near the boys. Conditions were really quite bad, the water flow was very strong and the suspended sediment made visibility very low. To be fair, the chances of getting far were not high.

– Bill Whitehouse

Found on CNN
5 years ago

What happens with the sediment is it just smothers it, while higher nutrients cause algae to out-compete the corals.

– Bradley Opdike

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Sediment builds up over time at the bottom of the tank, causing corrosion, partially draining it removes the sediment and keeps the heater running more efficiently — and keeps it running longer.

– John Bodrozic

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

They simply break into small bits as they weather out of the sediment before they are found. The preservation of ours is truly unusual, but a great deal of that may be due to the fact that we were able to locate them while they were still deep underground.

– Peter Houde

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

There is a potential for land reclamation through the displacement of the sediment the rivers carry.

– Malik Khan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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