Sentences with phrase «square mile of ocean»

A few feet thick, sea ice covers one million square miles of ocean in summer and grows to six million square miles in winter, doubling the size of the continent.

A chilly Arctic summer has left nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at the same time last year — an increase of 60 per cent.

UNITED NATIONS — The biggest land grab since colonial times is accelerating as nations scramble to claim writ over hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean floor, much of it believed to be rich in natural resources.

If he can prove that the travesty of plastic pervasiveness in the ocean is worsening (by tracking the amount of plastic per square mile of ocean, as this last voyage did) and that it has an impact on more of the various types of ocean life, even perhaps on the carbon sequestration process that the oceans offer, then international policy might finally begin to address the issue of trash in our seas.

Encompassing 1,470 square miles of ocean waters, the boundaries of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary extend from the mean high water line to approximately six nautical miles offshore from San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa and Santa Barbara Islands.

Cuomo's ambition to develop enough offshore wind energy by 2030 to power 750,000 homes will require 280 square miles of ocean starting 12 to 15 miles from the Long Island shore, state officials said.

Only about 818,000 square miles of the ocean around Antarctica was frozen over with sea ice on March 1, according to data analyzed and published by the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC).

The damage is vast: There are an estimated 46,000 pieces of plastic floating in every single square mile of the ocean, the United Nations Environment Program reported.

Though scattered across thousands of square miles of ocean, dive sites in the Maldives fall into three general categories, based on structure: Individual islands within an atoll are generally surrounded by a reef that creates a sheltered lagoon.

Altogether, a White House statement said, «The nations of the world have protected more than 900,000 square miles of ocean in 2016, exceeding last year's record of more than 730,000 square miles.»

The United National Environmental Program estimates that in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch there are 46,000 floating pieces of plastic per square mile of ocean, constituting six pounds of plastic for every pound of living phytoplankton.

Artist Statement The Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument is a UNESCO World Heritage listed U.S. National Monument encompassing 582,578 square miles of ocean waters, including ten islands and atolls of the...

About a million more square miles of ocean are covered in ice in 2013 than in 2012, a whopping 60 percent increase — and a dramatic deviation from predictions of an «ice - free Arctic in 2013,» the Daily Mail noted.

Roughly 4 million acres of land and several million square miles of ocean.

The Galapagos chain covers roughly 3,040 square miles of ocean and is centered about 575 miles west of Ecuador, which governs the islands.

The Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument spans 140,000 square miles of ocean, island, and reef.

These particles can interact with water, emitting a shudder of light, albeit under such rare circumstances that just a few of them strike each square mile of ocean each year.

The report adds that every square mile of ocean is home to nearly 50,000 pieces of litter, much of which tends to harm or kill wildlife that either ingests the plastic or gets trapped in discarded netting, which is just as common in the Northern Gyre as discarded soda bottles.

After drilling 13 more test wells, the experts now reckon that the pre-salt reserves sprawl over an oblong slab of more than 57,000 square miles of ocean — Brazilians call it «the blue beefsteak.»

Instead they considered one idea: «spreading very small reflective particles» over about five million square miles of ocean, so as to bounce about 1 percent more sunlight back to space — «a wacky geoengineering solution,» Keith says, «that doesn't even work.»

The United Nations Environment Program estimated in 2006 that every square mile of ocean hosts 46,000 pieces of floating plastic [source: UN Environment Program].

• Every square mile of ocean has about 46,000 pieces of plastic floating in it.

On top of that, plastic bags are the second most common ocean waste (after cigarette butts) and they harm thousands of species of ocean wildlife each year (with an estimated 40,000 + pieces of plastic floating in each square mile of the ocean!).

The spill covered 1,300 miles of coastline, 11,000 square miles of ocean, and killed thousands of animals.

The Bahamas is comprised of 700 islands and over 2,000 rocks and cays, sprinkled over 100,000 square miles of ocean.

Approximately 100,000 barrels (16,000 m3) of oil surged out of a huge undersea break, fouling hundreds of square miles of ocean and all the coastline from Ventura to Goleta, as well north facing beaches on the Channel Islands.

Since 2001, OCEANA has helped protect more than one million square miles of ocean.

The United Nations Environment Program estimated in 2006 that every square mile of ocean hosts 46,000 pieces of floating plastic [source: UN Environment Program].