Sentences with phrase «chukchi seas around»

But submarine and antisubmarine warfare in general have become areas of more intense focus for both Russia and NATO, the latter of which is increasingly concerned about what it sees as Russian encroachment in Europe and the seas around it.

The scallop shell, abundant in the seas around Santiago, became the emblem of a pilgrim (symbolizing, wrote Pope Calixtus II, the hand, wide open, with which one does good works.)

The dockyard gave the British naval forces an edge over European rivals who were angling to control the seas around the sugar - producing islands.

Did you know that the sea around the UK is home to more than 8000 different of species of plants and animals, but this wonderful marine environment is being ruined by pollution, including rubbish left on beaches, sewage and chemical and oil spills.

In Britain, the Falklands tend to be viewed through the prism of Argentine sabre - rattling − of which there has been plenty since huge oil reserves were discovered in the seas around the islands.

1155 - DfT - Light dues to be frozen at current levels for 2013 to 2014: the three General Lighthouse Authorities for the United Kingdom and Ireland ensure the navigability of the seas around our islands, preserving the lives of mariners and the integrity of our marine environment.

And as Operation Sophia tried to rescue those from the seas around Europe as too many desperate people are drowning in pursuit of sanctuary.

«Think of the air like the sea around those islands.

His team also uncovered unexpected measurements from World War II at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego and rare numbers from the icy seas around Russia and Norway in an obsure book tucked away in the New York Public Library.

Caleuche Chasma is named for the mythological ghost ship that travels the seas around the small island of Chiloé, off the coast of Chile; according to legend, the Caleuche explores the coastline collecting the dead, who then live aboard it forever.

The seas around Ball's Pyramid are rough, and the team of three men and one woman had to leap from their small boat onto the rocks.

Lead researcher Aylin Ulman, recently based at the Sea Around Us, and her team call for urgent action from policy - makers to ensure the future sustainability of the fishing industry in this archipelago nation.

«Melting ice makes the sea around Greenland less saline.»

Cashion is a researcher for the Sea Around Us project at the University of British Columbia's Institute for the Ocean and Fisheries, and he and his colleagues have been collecting data to illuminate the impact of fisheries on marine ecosystems.

Robots will soon be releasing simulated sewage into the sea around Australia's Great Barrier Reef in an experiment designed to show whether pollution from sewage and fertiliser is damaging the reef's coral.

It's an oasis of green island in this urban sea around us and because of that, birds, especially on migration, are drawn to it.

A special focus of Aranda's monitoring cruise this year was monitoring the major Baltic inflow that occurred in the Baltic Sea around the turn of the year.

To try to fill those gaps, researchers with the Sea Around Us project at UBC tapped into a worldwide network of colleagues.

«Fish stocks are like bank accounts,» says co-author Dirk Zeller, senior scientist and executive director of Sea Around Us.

Daniel Pauly, the study's lead author and principal investigator of the Sea Around Us at the Institute for the Ocean and Fisheries, explains that as fish grow into adulthood their demand for oxygen increases because their body mass becomes larger.

President Obama is expanding a national protected marine area of more than 582,000 square miles of land and sea around the Hawaiian islands.

The editor writes: • The CFP does have problems, but it's the least bad thing on offer for the seas around the UK — particularly now that it is starting to be informed more by science.

But they were distributed in seas around all continents, and in all palaeoenvironments from the equator to the (sometimes freezing) ancient north and south poles.

That's exactly what we see in seas around Antarctica.

A new paper from the Sea Around Us Project published in the journal Nature reveals that warmer ocean temperatures are driving marine species towards cooler, deeper waters, and this in turn, has affected global fisheries catches.

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Having already explored the ocean from a factual perspective (the Oscar - winning 1953 documentary The Sea Around Us), writer - director - producer Irwin Allen opted to take the fantasy route with this entertaining yarn in which a nuclear submarine might be the only hope against a circling fire belt that threatens to destroy Earth in a matter of days.

A collection of photos from my travels to different oceans and seas around the world, which I have used with my students on topics such as habitats and ecosystems, but also on water, pollution, and forces.

Includes the UK, oceans and seas around the world, and waves.

Yosuke Yashiro's family takes care of a mermaid egg in exchange for safe seas around their island community.

She got to know its layout, the way the sun looks on the sea around it, its birds and its weather while working there for a year as a docent.

There are pioneers attacked by bears and left for dead; aviators crawling from the wreckage onto snow swept mountains; and lots of people adrift, afloat and abandoned in seas around the world.

Admirers of the gorgeous detail of Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us will revel in Norton's writing, his observations, and irreverent wit.

There was a moment in the middle of the Pacific... I was standing on the boomkin of my boat, under the afternoon sun, the sparkling sea around me, the fresh breeze on my face.

This meant collecting rubbish from the beaches and the sea around all three of our resorts across Indonesia at the same time, our small contribution to inspiring awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment.

This temple was built in 16th century by the Javanese priest Danghyang Nirartha who built many temple near the sea around the island such as Rambut Siwi Temple in west of Bali, Pulaki Temple and Ponjok Batu Temple in North of Bali.

You get to ride the waves with the smell of the sea around you and sit on the beach with a coconut in hand.

Get your ruin on with a visit to Tulum perched atop the sea, explore the fish - and coral - filled seas around Cozumel on a scuba dive, go swimming in a cenote or at the beach, and save some energy for a night out on the town.

The sea around Fraser Island is off - limits to people, because of dangerous jelly fish and sharks.

The seas around the Cape Peninsula all the way up the coast to Mouille Point on the Atlantic Seaboard, and up the False Bay coast as far as Muizenberg, fall within the Table Mountain National Park.

The sea of course is never far away and the seas around Mauritius are simply stunning with sheltered lagoons set within the world's third largest coral reef.

You can see small fish hiding in the shipwreck but also bigger fish hunting around in the open sea around it.

Precipitous cliffs drop to sea around most of the island.

During the February «From Shore to Sea» lecture historian Linda Bentz discussed her research of Chinese fishermen who harvested the seas around the Channel Islands in the 19th century and were among the earliest commercial fisherman in California.

The Andaman Sea around Phuket is teaming with rich marine life and makes for, arguably, the best scuba diving and snorkeling in the world

The seas around Menjangan Island provide a real diving treat with excellent wall dives and healthy, colourful reefs with various sponges and sea fans.

Note: The offshore reef and its protecting of the inland sea around the island makes for extremely clear and calm water for diving & snorkeling.

Green obsidian, like all green stone, was very much valued by the Maya and was traded by sea around the Yucatan.

The sea around the Gilis is generally calm and the waters warm, making it a great place even if you are new to diving.

The sea around the southeast corner of the Nicoya Peninsula is generously sprinkled with uninhabited islands; the most famous is Tortuga Island whose pristine, jungle - backed white sand beaches ideal for snorkeling and kayaking.