The researchers, from the University of Helsinki, studied gobies from the Baltic, where high levels of pollution cause intense algal blooms, particularly during the goby breeding season.
Dr. Smetacek suggests that the new results would apply anywhere in the ocean where high levels of silica are present to allow diatoms to bloom.
It's not a pretty picture: an economy where high levels of stress and anxiety are normal, where people get ill because they've lost control of their time, where marriages are damaged and children suffer.
Talk of a narcostate resonates deeply in Peru, which is currently the world's largest producer of cocaine, and where high levels of criminality and insecurity are compounded by a notoriously corrupt judiciary and police force.
The Oxford study also highlights the possibility that some areas of the UK, where high levels of sanctions corresponded to relatively low levels of food bank use, are affected by "hidden hunger".
The triple meltdown at Fukushima forced the immediate evacuation of 80,000 people living within 20km; a similar number have left other towns and villages outside the evacuation zone where high levels of radiation have been found.
Extrapolate this to a peloton where high levels of cortisone use and abuse are reported to exist and you could have a ticking bomb – how soon before we see a further raft of riders not just with dodgy knees but major depression?
Researchers at Duke University who studied the weed between 1999 and 2004 in a controlled forest area near Chapel Hill, N.C., where high levels of CO2 are pumped into test plots, found that poison ivy not only grew more vigorously, but also produced a more toxic form of urushiol, the resin that causes its rash.
According to the Sunday Times ad the successful chief executive applicant needed to be "an inspirational leader with strong strategic skills, consumer orientation and a track record of building successful businesses in sectors where high levels of quality and service are demanded and delivered".
In Washington DC, where high levels of lead more than a decade ago in city water sparked a congressional investigation, consultants are finding that about one in every 200 drinking water samples in schools tests too high for lead (filters are generally added to the fountains in question).
Blackspots where high levels of youngsters are not in education, employment or training (Neet) have been revealed in a new report.
