Sentences with phrase «by oceans around the world»

After diving for 30 years in his spare time, he was compelled to combine his work and hobby when he was struck by the calamities faced by oceans around the world.

After diving for 30 years in his spare time, he was compelled to combine his work and hobby when he was struck by the calamities faced by oceans around the world.

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Occasionally Chichester is obliged to turn to the classics to piece out the narrative with passages from Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, but for the most part he draws on the solitary venturers in small craft — Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world; Ann Davison, the first woman to sail alone across the Atlantic; Alain Bombard, the French physician who sailed a 15 - foot rubber dinghy 2,750 miles in 65 days to see if it was possible for a man to survive on the ocean without food or water except that provided by fish and rain.

A GOP lawmaker said this week that the rise in sea levels around the globe was not caused by climate change — but by rocks tumbling into the world's oceans and silt flowing from rivers to the sea.

Just as conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean can have distant effects through what we now understand as El Niño, the loss of a forest could generate a signal heard around the world — including by other plants.

In all likelihood, each of these crossed at least one ocean within the dark confines of a container measuring 8 by 8.5 by 20 feet, stacked with as many as 10,999 others aboard one of the 4,500 container ships in use around the world.

Timothy Lyons at the University of California, Riverside, and colleagues have worked out how phosphate levels changed in Earth's oceans over the last 3 billion years by measuring the relative amounts of phosphorus in 700 samples from various rock formations around the world.

The scientists, led by Eric Oliver of Dalhousie University in Canada, investigated long - term heat wave trends using a combination of satellite data collected since the 1980s and direct ocean temperature measurements collected throughout the 21st century to construct a nearly 100 - year record of marine heat wave frequency and duration around the world.

The world's oceans are currently in the midst of the third major die off — termed bleaching by scientists — ever recorded and the hot waters around Christmas Island have been dealing with the heat for months.

In a major new international report, experts conclude that the acidity of the world's ocean may increase by around 170 % by the end of the century bringing significant economic losses.

The monument was first established 10 years ago by former Republican President George W. Bush, who created the world's largest marine reserve at the time, protecting close to 140,000 sq miles of ocean around the Hawaiian archipelago and inspiring a series of similar projects around the world.

As changes happen in the polar regions, they are carried around the world by ocean currents, both at the surface and in the deep ocean.

Leaving politics aside, for the people around the world who inhabit as much as 71 % of the world's coastlines and are surrounded by oceans, this is not just a statement on a piece of paper, but a commitment of world leaders to take the wellbeing of our further generations to heart, to tackle the burning of fossil fuels and global warming collectively.

We also find heat sloshing around the world's oceans, which absorb 93 quadrillion watts of the sun's energy — a hundred thousand times more power than could be produced by all the power plants in the United States put together.

In a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, the researchers report that increased ocean acidification by 2100 will spur a range of responses in phytoplankton: Some species will die out, while others will flourish, changing the balance of plankton species around the world.

The annually - averaged temperature for ocean surfaces around the world was 0.74 °C (1.33 °F) higher than the 20th century average, easily breaking the previous record of 2014 by 0.11 °C (0.20 °F).

El Niño is a recurring climate pattern defined by above - average ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific that affect weather patterns around the world, leading to a slight uptick in global temperatures.

Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor.

In any year, temperatures around the world can be nudged up or down by short - term factors like volcanic eruptions or El Ninos, when warm water spreads over much of the tropical Pacific Ocean.

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This book covers a range of exciting topics including: Shrimp Come In Many Different Sizes All Shrimp Are Actually Born Male Shrimp Are Omnivorous Shrimp Can Be Found All Over The World Shrimp Have Short Lifespans Shrimp Are Spineless Shrimp Are Delicious Shrimp Are Bottom Feeders Shrimp Get Eaten By Other Animals, Too Shrimp Have Been Around For Ages Shrimp Have Weak Legs Some Shrimp Make A Lot Of Noise Shrimp Can See All Over The Place Shrimp Have Strong Bellies Shrimp Belong To A Large Family Shrimp Don't Always Come From The Ocean Shrimp Come In A Variety Of Different Colors Some Shrimp Like To Fight Shrimp Can Be Faithful, Too Shrimp Have A Ton Of Protein We loved compiling this book and even learned a few things along the way and hopefully you will too.

When the swell gets going, particularly pumped by storms in the Southern Indian Ocean, a clockwork, world - class wave rolls in here that has surfers from around the globe coming to visit.

The natural environment and ocean resources of the Monterey Peninsula draw millions of visitors from around the world each year, including more than 65,000 scuba divers drawn by the area's easy access, variety of wildlife, and kelp forests.

Located in the Voltaire business district, near Ocean Beach, is the Point Loma Youth Hostel, frequented by travelers from around the world.

Whether you're looking to dance the days away or relax by the ocean with new friends from all around the world, Envision is the place to be this February 23 through 26.

Most are located around the main fishing village area of Jimbaran, while some others are located throughout the Bukit peninsula, fringed by white limestone cliffs that provide even more stunning ocean views, and share the vicinity with among the island's world - class surf spots.

By using the manned submersible Curasub for exploration of the deep reefs around Curacao and documenting their discoveries in major scientific journals, marine biologists from all over the world have helped this Caribbean island in rapidly earning a reputation as a destination where exploring the twilight zone of the ocean is producing dynamic results.

As you travel around the cliff edges which skirt the Southern Ocean you will appreciate the incredible engineering challenges faced by the 3000 World War I returned servicemen whose tools were basically picks, shovels and crowbars.

My natural history photography has appeared in BBC Wildlife, National Wildlife, National Geographic Magazine, Ocean Realm, Sunset, People, Ranger Rick, Reader's Digest, Scuba Diving, Skin Diver, Scientific American, Nature, Science, New York Times, United Press International, USA Today, has been used in various advertising and publicity campaigns as well as by all of the major textbook publishing houses, is on exhibit in aquaria and museums around the world and is occasionally recognized in photographic competitions.

Immerse yourself in dungeons, cloudscapes and oceans by using the Nintendo 3DS gyroscope to look around 16 beautiful 3D worlds.

Spore was about taking one - cell creatures out of the oceans from where they were born and evolving them, generation - by - generation into a hyper - intelligent species that could travel around the galaxy conquering worlds or, for more pacifist players, simply enjoying the sights and sounds of an ever - evolving world.

This paper demonstrated that there was very likely an artifact in the sea surface temperature (SST) collation by the Hadley Centre (HadSST2) around the end of the second world war and for a few years subsequently, related to the different ways ocean temperatures were taken by different fleets.

Imagine a man or woman being so arrogant, and selfish, that they'd take a job driving a CO2 belching truck, or dig for coal in a mine, or fish for salmon in the ocean, or fly a CO2 belching airliner, or flip beef patties that came from CH4 exhausting cows, or teaching a classroom of students all of whom belch CO2 and exhaust CH4 and whom will have offspring that produces even more of those evil gases, or working as a climate scientist in an office heated by CO2 belching FFs and occasionally traveling around the world by CO2 belching airliner — all the while using computers made from FFs and powered by CO2 belching FF power plants, or working as a Senator from Tennessee who was President of the USA for a few hours and who travels all over the world in CO2 belching airliners, or one of the millions of people who mine, process, manufacture and transport every product you have ever seen in your life and all the ones you haven't seen as well.

OCEANS RISING FAST, NEW STUDIES FIND Melting ice could raise levels up to 3 feet by 2100, scientists say David Perlman, Chronicle Science Editor Friday, March 24, 2006 Glaciers and ice sheets on opposite ends of the Earth are melting faster than previously thought and could cause sea levels around the world to rise as much as three feet by the end of this century and 13 to 20 feet in coming centuries, scientists are reporting today.

Mercury levels in the upper layers of the ocean are up 3.4 x since the beginning of the industrial revolution, according to the first study to have done truly global measurements of marine mercury levels by taking thousands of samples around the world over half a decade.

The Festival, organized by the Global Brain Foundation, invites current and potential stewards for the ocean to join them in New York City and around the world to bring public attention to the UN's SDG Goal 14.

Your «Oceans» image shows raw tidal gauge data for certain cities around the world, and you claim that sea level rise and acceleration are disproved by those few gauges.

I calculated this by using GISTemp to calculate temperature anomalies for grids around the world for 1900 to 2010, using consecutively land only data, ocean only data and combined land & ocean data.

21) After 1000 to 1500 years those variations in energy flowing through the thermohaline circulation return to the surface by influencing the size and intensity of the ocean surface temperature oscillations that have now been noted around the world in all the main ocean basins and in particular the Pacific and the Atlantic.

Around 88 thousand million tonnes of carbon is released from the surface of the world's oceans each year, with an annual uptake by the oceans of 90 thousand million tonnes.

In any year, temperatures around the world can be nudged up or down by short - term factors like volcanic eruptions or El Ninos, when warm water spreads over much of the tropical Pacific Ocean.

After 1000 to 1500 years those variations in energy flowing through the thermohaline circulation return to the surface by influencing the size and intensity of the ocean surface temperature oscillations that have now been noted around the world in all the main ocean basins and in particular the Pacific and the Atlantic.

Thousands of studies conducted by researchers around the world have documented changes in surface, atmospheric, and oceanic temperatures; melting glaciers; diminishing snow cover; shrinking sea ice; rising sea levels; ocean acidification; and increasing atmospheric water vapor.

Around the world, marine environments are threatened by overfishing, warming waters, ocean acidification, and coastal development.

The scientists determined their findings by using data — 5.1 million temperature profiles — from sources around the world, to quantify the variability of the heat content (mean temperature) of the world ocean from the surface through 3000 meter depth for the period 1948 to 1996.

According to Francis Chan, a marine ecologist at OSU, this recurrent dead zone is just another sign of global warming's harmful impact on ocean ecosystems around the world — prompted by unprecedented changes in wind patterns and water currents.

Roughly 90 hurricanes occur each year around the world, with by far the greatest number occurring in the largest ocean basin on Earth — the Pacific.

Gold Coast, Queensland About Blog Inspired by their bohemian lifestyle, travels around the world experiencing different cultures and places, and an ingrained love of the ocean, Alex and Ryan started out creating collections of bohemian leather bags, wallets, shoes and accessories.