Sentences with phrase «area of the ocean»

One solution the paper highlighted involves setting aside more and larger areas of the ocean that are safe from industrial development and fishing.

The sea ice extent measure is broader, including areas of ocean where ice covers 15 % of the surface area.

Nowadays the cost of covering a broad area of the ocean with multiple receivers to locate marine mammals or underwater vehicles based on the acoustic signals they produce is excessively high.

That was a vast area of ocean, currents don't act like that and, water simply doesn't mix that quickly.

It is remarkable that two areas of ocean so near to each other warmed by such different amounts.

Scientists define them as periods when the sea surface in a given area of the ocean gets unusually warm for at least five days in a row.

This transition will reduce the hurricane's peak winds, but strong winds will spread out over a wider area of ocean.

There's been an encouraging increase in new marine conservation zones in recent years, but still — the total area of oceans that is truly protected is nowhere near what it should be.

This trend has already restricted research cruises and will likely increasingly do so in the longer term, especially to remote areas of the ocean.

They seem to be generated in well defined areas of the oceans.

The black areas represent the least productive areas of the ocean, which have increased 15 % from 1998 to 2007.

Thunderstorms directly above two of the world's busiest shipping lanes are significantly more powerful than storms in areas of the ocean where ships don't travel, according to new research.

You need to divide your 57.7 meter sea level rise by (0.7096), the surface area of the oceans in comparison to the surface area of the Earth.

For example, the use of spatial zoning to reduce the overlap of fisheries, oil rigs and shipping lanes with areas of the ocean used by penguins; the use of appropriate fishing methods to reduce the accidental bycatch of penguins and other species; and, the use of ecologically based fisheries harvesting rules to limit the allowable catches taken by fishermen, particularly where they target species that are also food for penguins.»

First, you have to corral portions of the slick into areas of the ocean using fireproof floating barriers.

«This means that the Southern Ocean's nutrient supply would be affected by changes to the climate system (such as winds and freshwater input) differently to other areas of the ocean.

Looking at the locations of 1.5 billion lightning strokes from 2005 to 2016, the team found nearly twice as many lightning strokes on average over major routes ships take across the northern Indian Ocean, through the Strait of Malacca and into the South China Sea, compared to adjacent areas of the ocean that have similar climates.

When areas of the ocean are low in iron, the plankton population usually remains sparse.

But more widespread and constant forms of pollution — such as run - off of agricultural and industrial chemicals into rivers that drain into coastal areas of the ocean where dolphins spend much of their time — are having a more lasting negative effect on dolphins by poisoning them and causing reproductive problems.

In 2008, we relocated to the thriving, eclectic downtown area of Ocean Beach where we reside today.

Considerable attention was devoted to a paper published last year that found methane bubbling out across large areas of ocean above the East Siberian Shelf, which has some of the Arctic's largest methane hydrate deposits.

Francine Kershaw, PhD Natural Resources Defense Council As part of NRDC's Marine Mammal Protection Project, Francine Kershaw identifies areas of the ocean that are crucial for marine mammals and then assesses how vulnerable those areas are to human impacts.

«If the oceans were not salty,» the authors write, «air pollution would remain much longer in the lower troposphere and spread to much greater areas of the oceans.»

Why are they exploring ever deeper areas of the ocean in the Gulf of Mexico, trying to wring drops of oil from stone in Canada, blowing the tops off mountains in Appalachia, injecting chemicals, water and sand into solid rock, previously ignored, to extract natural gas?

Ice Age evidence suggests rising temperatures could boost areas of ocean water with little oxygen for life

Richardson, an oceanographer at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, realised that if he could unravel the bird's flying secrets, they could lead to a new generation of uncrewed gliders capable of surveying vast areas of ocean without using a drop of fuel.

Ambient noise in broad areas of the ocean has increased significantly over the last half - century from the introduction of tens of thousands of commercial ships continuously transiting the sea.

In some formerly biologically diverse areas of ocean, jellyfish biomass now exceeds that of fish.

Some MPAs allow fishing, but marine reserves are areas of the ocean closed to fishing and other extractive activities.

But if we decide to explore other parts of the ocean, we still have options: we can go wider, exploring interesting and important areas of the ocean we'll never get to during the K - 12 curriculum, or we can go deeper, staying in the travel lanes but exploring aspects of those lanes most students won't see.

The distinctively designed skyscraper, close to the Marina Mall at the Abu Dhabi Breakwater (a manmade area of ocean walkways) will offer panoramic views of the Arabian Gulf, the Corniche and the city's famous skyline.

Grand Central offers luxury accommodation, centrally located to the tourist attractions of the Great Ocean Road and the Lakes and Craters area of the

These wild, gentle and graceful creatures roam free in the North Sound, a 35 square mile area of ocean protected by the reef.

Dr. Schellnhuber, citing his own research, said that at certain «tipping points,» higher temperatures could cause areas of the ocean to become deoxygenated, resulting in what he calls «oxygen holes» between 600 and 2,400 feet deep.

There are several places on Earth where cold water upwells continually — just ask the fishermen, as they are the most fertile areas of the oceans.

The same areas of the ocean went from something like +80 w / m2 to -80 w / m2 (or vice versa) in less than a year.

The biggest non story of the melt of summer 2007, is that there was a wide new area of ocean, seen from space, but never reported by any film crew in person, it was the most disgraceful, or biggest environmental press blunder in my memory.

By understanding what areas of the ocean are being heavily fished, agencies and governments can make important decisions about how much fishing should be allowed in any given area.

Which seems to announce the coming of what will possibly be called the South Pacific Garbage Patch: The fifth area of the ocean to present plastic pollution surveyed by 5 Gyres.

What's not in this article like the dead areas of the oceans, the clear cut rain forests, the overcrowded cities, the CO2 infected atmosphere, the deteriorated ozone, the polluted rivers, the melting permafrost, and more and more just might make one wonder whether it is possible to convert all this to Paradise, or is Paradise just being lost forever.

The experiment involved «fertilising» a 300 - square - kilometre (115 - sqare - mile) area of ocean inside the core of an eddy — an immense rotating column of water — with six tonnes of dissolved iron.