Sentences with phrase «more sea life»

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Some notable Diveboard features include: access to an impressive database of more than 2 million species of sea life, a database of nearly 50,000 diving spots throughout the world and integration with Twitter, Flickr and Facebook's sharing features.

With more plastic than plankton at the center of the seas, marine life is consuming this waste.

Many of us who follow climate change news are aware that Greenland's ice is melting away, the Antarctic is cracking, and some Pacific islands are going underwater as seas rise — all because we are pumping more greenhouse gases into the thin layer of atmosphere in which we live.

You could say that 2018 is still a young year and it's way too early to judge things, which is true, but the level of volatility in both stocks and bonds during February is making this year feel like we've lived through two full years already, and I think what the markets are signaling is more likely to be a sea change than a blip.

I live in SEA and I haven't been on a flight more than 7 hours, but I've really been wanting to see the northern lights.

speaking to the One that calms the seas, crumbles the mountains, gave life to all,...» «Dear God, your son walked on water but we know it would have been a lot more fun if he had a surfboard or boogie board,»... what complete arrogance and blasphemy....

Despite the efforts of the Modern Church People's Union and «Sea of Faith» conferences and other theologically radical groups, many questioning followers of Jesus have drifted away from church life, or at least from participation in the church's decision - making forums, thus allowing undue influence to more traditional positions.

He was able to picture early Christianity this way with the more assurance because he did most of his scholarly work before attention shifted back to Palestine in the time of Jesus (thanks in part to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls), and before the themes of light against darkness, life against death, came in the 1960s to be understood as first century Jewish themes.

Other living organisms indicating the Earth is far more than a few thousands of years old include Posidonia oceanica, a species of seagrass found in the Mediterranean Sea.

But, when their overcrowded boat broke down in the middle of the Agean Sea on its way to Greece, Mardini and three other passengers — the only ones on the boat who could swim — did something truly heroic: They jumped in the water and pulled the boat through open water for three hours, saving more than a dozen lives.

A Church of Scotland minister has thanked the people who saved his life after his kayak capsized at sea... More

These extra items left on the bay are one of its biggest threats for Jamaica Bay, a national park that's home to more than 325 species of birds, invertebrates and sea life, Krause said.

The writer seems to be saying that animal life, whether on land or in the sea, is more marvelous than mere plant life, and, although issuing from the womb of the earth and from the waters, required a special operation of God to bring it about.

And if we can not find God in your house or in mine, upon the roadside or the margin of the sea; in the bursting seed or opening flower; in the day duty or the night musing; in the general laugh and the secret grief; in the procession of life, ever entering afresh, and solemnly passing by and dropping off; I do not think we should discern him any more on the grass of Eden, or beneath the moonlight of Gethsemane.

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«There is nothing more extreme than sea temperatures of 38 degrees, outside air temperatures in the 40's and 50's and suffocating heat and humidity deep in the hulls of live export vessels literally cooking animals alive.»

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However, more and more, whales and other sea animals are exposed to toxic waste in the water where they live and eat.

I remain committed to achieving real action on gun control, sea level rise, healthcare, education and so many other issues affecting our everyday lives and the brighter future we hope to leave to our children that now more than ever require champions.

After nearly 6 decades in paleontological limbo, a weirdly shaped, soft - bodied sea creature that lived more than 300 million years ago has gained a spot on life's family tree.

«Among marine mammals, when a slow - swimming animal is living close to the sea floor, generally the bone is much more compact, and this is something we want to test with these early mysticetes.»

To find out more about how they manage to survive, Brandon Briggs at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and Frederick Colwell at Oregon State University in Corvallis have sequenced and compared genomes belonging to one particular class of deep life — Firmicutes bacteria — sampled 21, 40 and 554 metres below the floor of the Andaman Sea, west of Thailand.

A single cubic yard of sea ice contains a million or more liquid compartments, microscopic test tubes that could have created unique mixtures of RNA that eventually formed the first life.

But because more than 40 percent of the Earth's population lives about 60 miles from the coastline, the authors write that taking advantage of offshore groundwater could help dampen looming water scarcity problems likely to be compounded by sea - level rise and drought.

The team found that species of foraminifera living on the sea floor around the time of the ice age contained more carbon than those that floated at the surface (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1188605).

«We can also combine that data with projections of sea ice, to predict how much more or less it will cost these animals to make a living over the next century,» Fischbach says.

Polar bears living on sea ice need to eat more than 12,000 calories per day, the team found, which translates to at least one adult ringed seal — or the equivalent of nearly 220 Big Macs — every 10 to 12 days.

Given that more than half a billion people live within a few meters of modern sea level, he said punctuated sea - level rise poses a particular risk to those communities that are not prepared for future inundation.

In Malé, the capital of the Maldives, more than 120,000 people live just a meter or so above current sea level.

While more than 80 percent of US suicides occur in low - altitude areas, that's because most of the population lives near sea level.

More than 540 international expeditions sailed to coral reefs, hydrothermal vents, seamounts, and open ocean waters to assemble a comprehensive picture of the diversity, habitats, and abundance of animals and microbes living in the sea.

While the scientific community has long warned about rising sea levels and their destructive impact on life, property and economies of some of the United States» most populous cities, researchers have developed a new, statistical method that more precisely calculates the rate of sea level rise, showing it's not only increasing, but accelerating.

Together they have established living museums of the sea, such as the Guadalupe Underwater Archaeological Preserve and the 1699 Captain Kidd Living Museum of the Sea, with several more in the living museums of the sea, such as the Guadalupe Underwater Archaeological Preserve and the 1699 Captain Kidd Living Museum of the Sea, with several more in the worsea, such as the Guadalupe Underwater Archaeological Preserve and the 1699 Captain Kidd Living Museum of the Sea, with several more in the Living Museum of the Sea, with several more in the worSea, with several more in the works.

Ramariopsis kunzei looks more like a beautiful white coral living under the sea than a mushroom living on the floor of a tropical forest.

The fantastical landscape is more than a mile beneath the sea surface and home only to life that can withstand tremendous pressure, acidity, and heat.

To further combat coral loss, marine biologists at a new research facility in Australia, called the National Sea Simulator (above), have devised a more radical approach: they are manually breeding supercorals capable of living in the increasingly inhospitable sSea Simulator (above), have devised a more radical approach: they are manually breeding supercorals capable of living in the increasingly inhospitable seasea.

A new study suggests that the iron - and - sulfur clusters at the heart of many life - critical enzymes could have been floating around Earth's primordial seas some 4 billion years ago, produced by nothing more than primitive biomolecules, iron salts, and a previously unknown ingredient — ultraviolet (UV) light.

Other studies, however, have shown that pristine coral reef systems with a full complement of sea life can actually lead to corals getting sick more often from bacteria and fungus.

Tests of some fish species, which can race across the ocean more quickly than slow - moving currents, have shown higher levels of radiation, although radiation levels in sea life off the U.S. shore are still safe, Buesseler said.

To learn more about the mysterious lives of sea turtles, researchers attached tiny satellite trackers to young turtles and set them free in the open ocean.

Even more surprising than the existence of this lake beneath the sea, however, is what lives in it.

Measuring the ratio, Gibson says, can help scientists understand changes in primary productivity; that is, how much food there is for more complex forms of sea life, like crustaceans or fish, to «graze» on.

The team found that the blood of Tibetans had more than 10 times the concentration of biologically active nitric oxide breakdown products, such as nitrate and nitrite, than did blood from people who lived at sea level, signifying a high level of nitric oxide in their bloodstreams.

One more unusual behavior may be explained by the hagfish lifestyle: The slime «eels» live on the sea floor, burrowing into the mud and even into dead whale carcasses to scavenge for food.

We need to do more work to better understand how deep - sea sponges live.»

Recent surveys have found more than 2,300 - year - old colony of deep - water black coral 1,480 feet (451 meters) below the surface off Oahu — and deep - sea fishing threatens the long - lived, slow - reproducing species that inhabit the sea bottom such as the Patagonian toothfish (better known as Chilean sea bass).

Recent research suggests that the element mix in ancient hot springs would have been more likely to give rise to life than that of deep sea vents.

Unlike its related species, the yellow - bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus), the yellow sea snake subspecies lives in a significantly more hostile environment — the waters in the gulf are warmer, often turbulent, and the dissolved oxygen in them occasionally drops to extremely low levels.

Burrowing also became more common and varied, which broke down the once - widespread bacterial mats, allowing oxygen into the sea floor to form a newly hospitable space for living.

More than 150 million people globally live within just 1 meter of the sea; in the United States, a sea level rise of 3 meters would inundate many of the East Coast's largest cities, including New York and Miami.