Sentences with phrase «oceans on other worlds»

Not exact matches

The eastward expansion of Europe, through the progressive expansion of Russia into Asia, corresponded to a radical westward expansion of Europe to a world given the name «America» on the other side of the ocean.

Maybe he was returning the kindness that was bestowed on him during World War II, when he and two other members of the Navy were plucked out of the ocean after a losing battle, his son said.

[56] Ghana is geographically closer to the «centre» of the Earth than any other country in the World; even though the notional centre, (0 °, 0 °) is located in the Atlantic Ocean approximately 614 km (382 mi) off the south - east coast of Ghana on the Gulf of Guinea.

In some ancient eras, according to other recent work on ocean chemistry, marine animals lived in «worlds of lower oxygen,» Lyons says.

Even if Pluto's ocean is really now just ice, Keane says, these new studies of Sputnik Planitia reveal a powerful and unique feedback between Pluto's climate and orbital evolution that could also operate on other icy worlds in the outer solar system.

A coral reef ecologist by training, she keeps one foot wet in the field, while the other roams the worlds of creative storytelling and problem - solving, with a focus on ocean conservation and climate change issues.

Scientists are interested in understanding early life on Earth because if we ever hope to find life on other worlds - especially icy worlds with subsurface oceans such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus - we need to know what chemical signatures to look for.

Scientists are interested in understanding early life on Earth because if we ever hope to find life on other worlds — especially icy worlds with subsurface oceans such as Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's Enceladus — we need to know what chemical signatures to look for.

Bringing together observed and simulated measurements on ocean temperatures, atmospheric pressure, water soil and wildfire occurrences, the researchers have a powerful tool in their hands, which they are willing to test in other regions of the world: «Using the same climate model configuration, we will also study the soil water and fire risk predictability in other parts of our world, such as the Mediterranean, Australia or parts of Asia,» concludes Timmermann.

These first cultivars are also critical to the research on how bacteria have adapted and evolved in the Gulf of Mexico compared to other parts of the world's oceans.

At the same time, on the other side of the world, the Arctic Ocean was

Ocean currents carry plastic debris from all over the world towards the Arctic, but we can not blame it all on others.

Melting glaciers have a ranging set of effects on the environment and ecosystems, from contributing to sea level rise, desalination of oceans and other less tangible effects on the world's jet streams as well as the ability to reflect sunlight.

Scientists around the world conducting research into what actually exists in ocean depths, as well as: the impacts of fishing and other human activities on these deep unknown spaces and species; and what types of improved management options may help to conserve these natural assets (and their contribution to planetary and human wellbeing) for the long term.

Ceres, which is the largest asteroid and one of five dwarf planets in our solar system, now joins Mars and the ocean - bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn as a potential target in the hunt for life on other worlds, Reuters and the Los Angeles Times reported on Friday.

On the other side of the world, two field campaigns are returning to the Atlantic Ocean.

As we got older, she was the one who would hold my hand and make me brave enough to face the world — whether that world contained a killer history test, or crippling heartbreak, or a dream on the other side of a great big ocean.

The latest documentary from Disneynature — they also brought us Earth (2007)-- begins with a daunting series of ocean photography; waves crashing on top of themselves, an army of jellyfish floating as if without a care in the world, a pack of dolphins skipping across the water and marine iguanas sunbaking on the Galapagos Islands amongst others.

The information section is also interesting with biographies of anthropologists; information on the oceans, solar system, and world populations; a resource room where teachers can find lesson plans and links to other useful information on the Web; a tutorial for using the Internet; and a visit to Our World Today through Web world populations; a resource room where teachers can find lesson plans and links to other useful information on the Web; a tutorial for using the Internet; and a visit to Our World Today through Web World Today through Web cams.

He had lived in an apartment with books touching the ceilings, and rugs thick enough to hide dice; then in a room and a half with dirt floors; on forest floors, under unconcerned stars; under the floorboards of a Christian who, half a world and three - quarters of a century away, would have a tree planted to commemorate his righteousness; in a hole for so many days his knees would never wholly unbend; among Gypsies and partisans and half - decent Poles; in transit, refugee, and displaced persons camps; on a boat with a bottle with a boat that an insomniac agnostic had miraculously constructed inside it; on the other side of an ocean he would never wholly cross; above half a dozen grocery stores he killed himself fixing up and selling for small profits; beside a woman who rechecked the locks until she broke them, and died of old age at forty - two...

Her enthusiastic approach extends to her research — she has traveled all over the world to meet scientists, environmentalists, urban designers, inventors, and those on the cutting edge of technological development, accompanying an aqua farmer to check on his lateral kelp beds in the ocean, and others into their labs, design studios and think tanks.

A better one, I guess, according to whatever calculations my parents were going by then, and so they let go of the world I would've been born into, the only world they knew; they held to the promise of that new life and crossed an ocean and tied our destinies to everyone we'd find on the other shores.

In many ways, Ocean Meets Sky is a tribute to the tradition of oral storytelling, in particular to the stories told by the Fans» Taiwanese grandfather, who lived on the other side of the world and didn't frequently visit (both Eric and Terry were born in the U.S. but moved to Canada as children).

Possession of a valid California state fishing license with an ocean enhancement stamp is required and all California Department of Fish and Game regulations apply.More... Wildlife / Wildflower Viewing A variety of seabirds can be seen throughout the year (especially around Scorpion Rock), but most birders go to the island to see the endemic island scrub - jay - only found on Santa Cruz Island and no other place in the world.

With the famous surf beach on the Pacific Ocean side and a serene inner harbour beach on the other, Manly has the best of both waterfront worlds and is a popular place to swim, windsurf, parasail, snorkel, kayak, surf and scuba dive.

Inside are directions on how to use the phone in their apartment, discount vouchers for Sega World, Ocean World, Wonderland and other tourist attractions.

Stretching from Broadbeach along the café lined esplanade, and up to Sea World and the Spit, Surfers Paradise is wedged between the ocean on one side, and meandering canals and waterways on the other side.

Other world - class destinations on the Belize Barrier Reef include Shark Ray Alley, a section of the enormous Hol Chan Marine Reserve that is a natural cut in the reef where vast schools of harmless nurse sharks and stingrays transit from the deep ocean to the gentler interior side of the Caribbean.

It includes Johns's» Flag on Orange Field» (1957), «Edingsville» (1965), «Map (Based on Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Air Ocean World)» (1967 — 71) and «Untitled» (1972), though the fact that Johns's works are rhetorically associated with Pop and clumped together in galleries with those of Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann and others better suited to the Pop label raises profound problems of classification and interpretation.

Like many of the other infographics on this list, Our Living Resource aims to educate on the importance of the ocean and how valuable it is to the world.

On the other hand, there is a simple explanation for such a temporary cooling in a model: an artifact known as «coupling shock» (e.g. Rahmstorf 1995), which arises when the ocean is switched over from a forced to a coupled mode of operation, something that has no counterpart in the real world.

First of all, they do * nothing * about the other effects of CO2 (ocean acidification, physiological impacts on plants around the world).

Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.

SRM on the other hand would merely mask temperature increases, with limited effects on ocean acidification, and would create novel climate regimes across significant areas of the world, with new patterns and levels of precipitation.

In fact, the world's interconnected ocean as a whole is sliding into the Holocene Mass Extinction, the geological event that some scientists use to divide the boundary of the Holocene and the Anthropocene epoch, the one that's named after us — and that may still be visible in the Earth's geological record hundreds of millions of years from now, because species of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and other marine life, that were abundant on this planet for millions of years — suddenly, in less than the blink of a geologist's eye, vanished — for good.

John Diebold, a marine scientist who sailed the world's oceans for more than four decades using sound waves to study earthquake faults, underwater volcanoes and other normally hidden features of the seabed, died on July 1 at his home in Nyack, N.Y..

«The authors write that «the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring fluctuation,» whereby «on a timescale of two to seven years, the eastern equatorial Pacific climate varies between anomalously cold (La Niña) and warm (El Niño) conditions,» and that «these swings in temperature are accompanied by changes in the structure of the subsurface ocean, variability in the strength of the equatorial easterly trade winds, shifts in the position of atmospheric convection, and global teleconnection patterns associated with these changes that lead to variations in rainfall and weather patterns in many parts of the world,» which end up affecting «ecosystems, agriculture, freshwater supplies, hurricanes and other severe weather events worldwide.»»

These extra gases are causing the Earth to get warmer, setting off all sorts of other changes around the world — on land, in the oceans, and in the atmosphere.

(Washington and Cook 2011: 30 - 31) This is so because, among other things, there are vast amounts of methane stored in permafrost, methane hydrates on the ocean floor, and carbon in the forests that could be released as the world warms.

In addition to causing changes in climate, increasing levels of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities have a direct effect on the world's oceans.

On the other hand, there is absolutely no doubt that the burning of coal producing air pollution that kills millions world - wide each year and damages our atmosphere and our oceans through climate change.

«In addition to causing changes in climate, increasing levels of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels and other human activities have a direct affect on the world's oceans,» the report found, particularly an increase in levels of acidity, which it said are a threat to marine life.

Melting glaciers have a ranging set of effects on the environment and ecosystems, from contributing to sea level rise, desalination of oceans and other less tangible effects on the world's jet streams as well as the ability to reflect sunlight.

The future of the Great Barrier Reef — and other reefs around the world — will ultimately depend on how successfully we can limit ocean warming.

Other Green Surf Companies Wet Women Surf Wax: «Making Sure Women Stay On Top Loose Fit: World's First Carbon Neutral Surf Shop Country Feeling Surfboards Makes Hawaii's First Green Surfboards Yamamoto Neoprene: From the Sea, For the Sea BodyGlove Biostretch: Oh No It Don't Come Easy Aaron Chang Recycled Fashion Swimsuits The Greening of Surf Brazil Turning Surfboards Into Sustainable Products Ben Harper on Surfing and Clean Oceans Video Part 3 Quiksilver Initiative Eco Surf Activities Surf Festival Incorporates Eco Awareness Activities in Brazil Surfs UOn Top Loose Fit: World's First Carbon Neutral Surf Shop Country Feeling Surfboards Makes Hawaii's First Green Surfboards Yamamoto Neoprene: From the Sea, For the Sea BodyGlove Biostretch: Oh No It Don't Come Easy Aaron Chang Recycled Fashion Swimsuits The Greening of Surf Brazil Turning Surfboards Into Sustainable Products Ben Harper on Surfing and Clean Oceans Video Part 3 Quiksilver Initiative Eco Surf Activities Surf Festival Incorporates Eco Awareness Activities in Brazil Surfs Uon Surfing and Clean Oceans Video Part 3 Quiksilver Initiative Eco Surf Activities Surf Festival Incorporates Eco Awareness Activities in Brazil Surfs Up!

Other big stories on the horizon include climate change's effects on oceans, food, water, and biodiversity around the world.

Ken Caldeira has been a Carnegie investigator since 2005 and is world renowned for his modeling and other work on the global carbon cycle; marine biogeochemistry and chemical oceanography, including ocean acidification and the atmosphere / ocean carbon cycle; land - cover and climate change; the long - term evolution of climate and geochemical cycles; climate intervention proposals; and energy technology.

The Introduction to Levitus et al (2005) begins: Based on the physical properties and mass of the world ocean as compared to other components of Earth's climate system, Rossby [1959]...

Santa Barbara, CA — Human impacts on the oceans have increased in more than two - thirds of the world during the past five years, though some areas remain lightly impacted, and still others are improving.