Sentences with phrase «square miles of ocean in»

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.

Not exact matches

In California, oil companies are pressing for further exploration of the massive Monterey Shale, a 1,750 - square - mile area extending from the agricultural Central Valley to the Pacific Ocean that federal energy officials say could ultimately comprise two - thirds of the nation's shale oil reserves.

The search for the Malaysian jet has been focused on a 7.3 - million - square - mile area in the southern Indian Ocean off the western coast of Australia.

Since The Bahamas is comprised of 700 individual islands and cays with a total land area of about 5,400 square miles scattered across 100,000 square miles of ocean, it is natural that fish and seafood are very important in the cuisine.

Imagine: Somewhere in the vast Pacific Ocean is eight square miles of volcanic ash where nearly 29,000 lives ended in just 36 days.

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.

In June 2006, the Bush administration created the Papahnaumokukea Marine National Monument, a 1,200 - mile - long, 140,000 - square - mile stretch of open ocean northwest of Honolulu.

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.

Some experiments have been done, including one in the Antarctic Ocean in 2004 when Smetacek and his colleagues dropped 5 metric tons of iron sulfate and saw a 65 - square - mile bloom.

One under Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean is thought to have triggered massive volcanism, spewing lava across 580,000 square miles (1.5 million square km) at the Deccan Plateau region of what is now India about 65 million years ago, coinciding with the end of the Age of Dinosaurs.

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!).

We've come all the way to the Big Island of Hawaii (4038 square miles) to stare into the ocean's depths at dawn and ride at dusk to the top of Mauna Kea (13,796 feet), lifted up into a heaven packed with more stars than we've ever seen in our lives.

The Marshall Islands, a group of atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, has legally banned all shark fishing in their waters — all 768,547 square miles of them — making it the largest shark sanctuary in the world.

Located in the exclusive gated community of Punta Cana Resort in the Dominican Republic, this setting consists of a twenty - six square mile paradise blessed with a temperate year round climate and soft ocean breezes.

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.

Christmas Island is a small island territory of Australia, covering 135 square miles (350 sq. km) in the Indian Ocean.

Comprised of 118 islands and atolls in five archipelagos, French Polynesia (commonly called «Tahiti,» collectively) is spread over two million square miles in the South Pacific Ocean.

Spanning 15.8 square miles from Santa Monica's Ocean Avenue to Grand Avenue in Downtown LA, Wilshire Boulevard offers a unique mix of boutiques and stores along with many renowned restaurants.

The island, a protected National Park Reserve of Canada, is a 13 square mile sliver of an isolated sandbar 109 miles southeast of Nova Scotia in the Atlantic Ocean.

Artist Statement on DEEPHORIZON: «The supreme discipline of art — oil painting — is back with a vengeance — in the form of an oil painting on a 80.000 square miles ocean canvas with 32 million litres of oil — a unique piece of art... It has been 13 days since a BP oil and gas exploration well blew out, setting fire to the drilling rig, which sank, killing 11 people.

It spread across 4.63 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean, Hudson Bay and adjacent areas of the North Atlantic — an area 224,000 square miles smaller than the previous low record for the month set in 2004.

On July 16, 2015, five nations (United States of America, Russia, Canada, Norway, Denmark / Greenland) signed a declaration committing to keep their fishing vessels out of a 1.1 million square mile zone in the central Arctic Ocean near the North Pole.

With its Smart from the Start leasing program, the federal government's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management hopes to avoid that controversy: the 2,400 square miles set to be auctioned off for wind development later in 2012 are located at least 10 miles from shore, on the Outer Continental Shelf off the East Coast.

On September 16, 2012, the extent of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean dropped to 3.41 million square kilometers (1.32 million square miles).

Then, in February, a 1,250 - square - mile section — larger than Rhode Island — started splintering, and in just over a month, it was gone, sending billions of tons of ice floating into the ocean to melt.

Large chunks of the Arctic ocean now absorb 90 % of sunlight instead of reflecting it in summer.That is 900 % increase for those square miles affected.

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.

How are these values derived and used in calculations for the computing - global warming in a small area such as a 10x10 mile square of ocean?

But to think that a 20 square mile concrete area isn't hotter than a 20 square mile forest or high grasses or patch of ocean, or even somebody's front porch on a couple of acres, is delusional, and thinking that the effects of that concrete (or asphault or mixture) 20 square miles in size doesn't extend a ways out and up is insane.

According to the latest monthly report from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, only 4.67 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean was covered in ice in December 2016, the second - lowest total the center has even recorded for that month.

In late August, just 1.58 million square miles of sea ice covered the Arctic Ocean, the smallest such area ever observed by NASA satellites since the space agency began monitoring the Earth's polar ice caps 30 years ago.

Plastic waste is one of the most significant sources of marine pollution: According to UNEP, plastic accounts for 90 % of all debris floating in the oceans - with every square mile containing close to 46,000 pieces.

When the theory was tested in a 115 - square - mile area of the Southern Ocean, tiny crustacean zooplankton ate up all the phytoplankton.

In a September 18 House Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing (a hearing dubbed by Organizing for Action as «DenierPalooza»), Congressman Ed Whitfield (R - KY) stated, «I recently read an article that stated that the Arctic ice had nearly a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice than at this time of year,» and Congressman David McKinley (R - WV) asserted that «Arctic ice has actually grown 60 percent.»

Now comes a report in the UK Daily Mail that «eminent scientists» have observed a record return of the Arctic ice cap as it grows by 60 percent in a year, covering with ice almost 1 million more square miles of ocean than in 2012.

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.

In particular, they say that natural chemical reactions under 78,000 square kilometers (30,000 square miles) of ocean floor off California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia could lock in as much as 150 years of U.S. CO2 productiIn particular, they say that natural chemical reactions under 78,000 square kilometers (30,000 square miles) of ocean floor off California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia could lock in as much as 150 years of U.S. CO2 productiin as much as 150 years of U.S. CO2 production