What is "slicks"

Usage examples of "slicks".

Meanwhile, marine biologists report massive falls in fish stocks in the Indian Ocean, almost certainly the result of displacement of phytoplankton by slicks, and there is tension between India, Bangladesh and Mozambique over disputed fishing grounds.

So far, with the help of Maury Richards, Mariella has logged the sites of more than twenty possible daughter slicks, mostly in an arc along the Pacific coast of the American continent.

And it seems that every scientist on Earth wants to know what was found at the Chinese borehole, and whether it can provide clues to how the slicks can be destroyed.

A cosmetic treatment that will not have affected the particles shed into deep water, and that is unlikely to be effective on larger slicks, such as the one drifting at the equator, which satellite surveys suggest is more than a thousand kilometers across.

The slicks have already destroyed about half the phytoplankton productivity in the Pacific.

When we demonstrate the true power of what you have brought us, when we provide a cure for the slicks that choke the oceans, we will spread the spirit of our revolution across the world.

Pardoe, who has read up on the slicks, gets excited after Mariella explains their potential to ruin ocean ecosystems and tip the global climate into a new equilibrium.

Mariella gives several seminars on her work on the Chi and the virus that the Chinese engineered to try to destroy it, and sits in the audience and listens to presentations by others on the ecological damage caused by the slicks and on DNA sequences published on the Internet, speculative papers on possible selective agents against the slicks, and on what is known about the chemical agents both the Chinese and American governments have used, either with little success or with massive collateral damage to the ecosystems they were trying to protect.

A version of it has escaped into the seas of Earth, and has changed itself into what we call the slicks by incorporating genes from life on Earth.

We need to learn about the Chi in order to clean the slicks from our seas.

But the slicks are now so pervasive that, like the Moses virus, they might never be completely eradicated, only contained.