Sentences with phrase «of oceans around the world»

From the bright peaks of snowy mountains, to the shadows of the forests, to the bustling city and down into the dark of the oceans around the world, the video pays homage to world renowned nature documentaries as it gradually reveals a variety of Pokémon in their real - world natural habitats — bringing augmented reality one step closer to life.
There is little debate that the top layer of oceans around the world have warmed since 1993, and scientists point to this as one of the main drivers of sea level rise.

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This would help us to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, like dying oceans and widespread desertification, which will harm people around the world, especially the poor.
The storm threatened to destroy years of work that's crucial to the future of coral reefs around the world and the health of our oceans.
Plus, don't miss a mouthwatering moment as we frequent one of San Diego's most iconic eateries, Hodad's Ocean Beach, where the line often wraps around the block for what Hodad's boasts are the «Best Burgers in the World
In a move that stunned and appalled scientists around the world the Harper government laid off as many as 40 scientists associated with the legendary program working out the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Winnipeg's office.
Viewers witness how dust blown from the Sahara fertilizes the Amazon; how a vast submarine «waterfall» off Antarctica helps drive ocean currents around the world; and how the sun's heating up of the southern Atlantic gives birth to a colossally powerful hurricane.
Don't worry about ocean studies, or currents, or instruments that observe the transfer of energy around the world.
This universe and everything around use is absolutely amazing, from the ability for me to type on this keyboard to the sun rising and the tides of the oceans our world is amazing.
Certainly in the Islamic world, from the Atlantic Ocean to the China Sea, it is religion that offers a militant challenge to every form of secularity (including the Marxist one), and not the other way around.
Across the Atlantic Ocean, the Netherlands - based nonprofit organization UTZ has devoted itself a similar mission: to advance the well - being of farming communities around the world while safeguarding natural resources.
Made from petroleum, plastic bags are contributing to enivonmental degradation around the world, clogging our oceans, and are an enormous waste of money.
Álvaro Corral of the Centre for Mathematical Research in Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues looked at records of hurricanes from four ocean basins around the world between 1966 and 2007.
Whilst this is a small figure in actual terms, combined with the contribution from other melting glaciers around the world and expansion of the world's oceans, it will have an impact upon society through flooding of low - lying coastal regions.»
From their vantage points in labs and living rooms around the world, oceanic explorers now plug into an ever - changing world once cloaked in darkness, and tap into the pulse of the ocean as it lives and breathes.
The scientists believe the findings here are representative of the Pacific Basin and likely ocean basins around the world.
The island in the Indian Ocean is home to around 290 species of amphibians that are not found anywhere else in the world.
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.
But as you can imagine, in this day of budget cutting in countries around the world, Antarctic science programs are being sliced, so there is this concern that it's a place also that could be kind of forgotten in the not so distant future, and that would be a tragedy because as that ice melts and if it can specifically continues to melt at the rate it is now, that will impact all of the world's oceans.
While the shipping industry — which now has easy northern access between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans — may be cheering this «natural» development, scientists worry about the impact of the resulting rise in sea levels around the world.
These add to a body of evidence showing that ocean temperatures around the world are rising.
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.
Researchers from around the world have now pooled their data on the movements of a wide array of marine animals, enabling them to look for common features in how animals move throughout the world's oceans.
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 finding, from the first survey of ocean acidification around one of the world's greatest natural landmarks, supports fears that the ecosystem is on its last legs.
Map of current land and ice separating the Weddell and Ross seas, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Wutsje / CIA Octopuses have made themselves at home in most of the world's oceans — from the warmest of tropical seas to the deep, dark reaches around hydrothermal vents.
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.
The institute carries out research world - wide around four main themes: climate dynamics based on oceanographic, geological, and meteorological investigations; marine biogeochemistry; marine ecology; and the dynamics of the ocean floor.
It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice it as an industry must often pursue fish far into the ocean under adverse conditions.
As many as 25 «megacities» around the world could see rising oceans force at least 50 percent of their populations from their homes and businesses.
Boetius and her colleagues have found the consortium in 20 or so other places around the world — everywhere they have looked, including a mud volcano in the Arctic Ocean, and at cold seeps and hydrate mounds in the Gulf of Mexico.
Take a magnum of wine and dump it in the ocean, wait until it has mixed completely with the waters around the world, then refill the bottle.
In a new study recently published in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles, scientists of Kiel University (CAU) with colleagues from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and international partners from the USA, New Zealand, and Great Britain studied marine benthic shell - forming organisms around the world in relation to the chemical conditions they currently experience — with a surprising result: 24 percent, almost a quarter of the analyzed species, including sea urchins, sea stars, coralline algae or snails, already live in seawater unfavorable to the maintenance of their calcareous skeletons and shells (a condition referred to as CaCO3 - undersaturation).
Now scientists have found that 10 rivers around the world where plastic waste is mismanaged contribute to most of the oceans» total loads that come from rivers.
Large marine parks have been created around the world in rapid succession during the last decade, quadrupling the amount of protected ocean to nearly 4 percent.
Mining on the ocean floor could do irreversible damage to deep - sea ecosystems, says a new study of seabed mining proposals around the world.
Ocean circulation drives the movement of warm and cold waters around the world, so it is essential to storing and regulating heat and plays a key role in Earth's temperature and climate.
For example, Sullivan's use of the facility was ancillary to the principal focus of his grant, which involves mapping ocean viruses around the world.
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.
Faster and more durable versions of the catalysts are in the works, and they could spur recycling efforts that prevent millions of tons of the plastics from clogging our landfills and swirling around the world's oceans.
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.
«We have a spotty picture of what ocean acidification looks like around the world
Many of the big impacts of El Niño are due to the way it redistributes rainfall around the world, but it is also felt in the ocean.
The world's oceans are clogged with the equivalent of five grocery bags full of plastic trash on every 30 centimeters of every nation's coastline around the globe
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.
Blue Whales were abundant in most oceans around the world up until the beginning of the 20th century.
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.
Oceans have absorbed up to 30 percent of human - made carbon dioxide around the world, storing dissolved carbon for hundreds of years.
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