About 9, 000 people are employed at Sellafield where radioactive waste lies in ponds and silos.
The theory is simple: find fish which like eating mosquito larvae and put them in ponds, rivers and wells where mosquitoes lay their eggs.
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Biologists surmise that fish in the lake have high levels of organochlorines caused by chemicals accumulating in ponds and ditches on the land off the northeast part of the lake.
If you keep your algae in ponds the rays do not always strike them at the best angle and the algae sometimes shade one another if they are growing densely.
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Instead of growing its algae in sunlit ponds it keeps them in the dark and feeds them with sugar.
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In the ponds that dot the villages, silkworm waste is fed to fishes, while mud from the ponds fertilizes the mulberry trees, and the leaves in turn feed the silkworms.
In the ponds and flooded areas, they're hoping for frogs, toads, newts, aquatic plants, damsel flies and dragonflies.
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Among the victims: Mississippi and Arkansas catfish farmers who kept Asian carp in their ponds to control algae blooms.
Imagine Shanghai crabs being caught in American ponds, lakes, and rivers, without pesticides and industrial pollution, and exported to China.
But if cooling systems had not been restored, it is possible that the water in the ponds could have started to boil.
All the nuclear waste created since Sizewell B started generating electricity in 1995 is currently stored on site under water in storage ponds.
Whether grown in bioreactors or in desert ponds, algal oil mostly sidesteps the food and land conflicts that potentially can limit other biofuels.
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The remainder will end up in salt ponds where various compounds -- sodium chloride, gypsum, calcium carbonate -- can be extracted and potentially commercialized.
Instead, the living roof acts as a natural filtration system, with excess storm water collecting in retention ponds before flowing into the nearby Rouge River.
This has been done by Kam-Biu Liu, of Louisiana State University, who has looked for traces of old hurricanes in the ponds that line much of America's Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Because they are preserved in the Gale crater still today, it implies that the water there had relatively little acidity -- that is, it was fresh water, like the water you'd find in most ponds or lakes on Earth today.
The fish have migrated northward in the Mississippi River and many tributaries since escaping from Deep South ponds in the 1970s.
In September, Cuomo and other top state officials took part in a press conference with writers from around the state at Boreas Ponds in the central Adirondacks, where writers and government officials spent an afternoon paddling and fishing.
Several varieties of carp imported from Asia have migrated steadily northward in the Mississippi River and its tributaries since escaping from Southern fish farms and sewage treatment ponds in the 1970s.
So the watershed improvement comes in the form of retaining ponds that help farmers high in the hills harvest water.
Case in point: Children in Louisiana die from this protozoan all the time when they go swimming in fresh water ponds.
Rutgers, along with a small New Jersey company -- Phytotech -- is field testing sunflowers in the polluted ponds near the Chernobyl nuclear plant.
Communities that depend chiefly on open water sources like ponds in rural and isolated areas are especially affected, according to the World Health Organization.
Over the spawning season, which runs from the end of March to mid-April, hundreds of toads make the journey back to two breeding ponds in Edington.
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The gift reflects the outsized ambitions the retail-chain family has for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, a complex of eight gallery pavilions it has helped build around a pair of ponds in the company's northwestern Arkansas hometown of Bentonville (population 35, 301).
In addition, there will need to be access to large sources of energy to keep the ponds from freezing in cold winter climate areas, and for processing the algae into fuel.
Their catfish are raised in clay-based ponds filled with purified water pumped from underground wells.
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