Sentences with phrase «square miles of ocean starting»

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The range of ocean remaining frozen over the northern polar region reached its minimum extent for 2009 on September 12, when it covered 1.97 million square miles (5.1 million square km), and now appears to be growing again as the Arctic starts its annual cool - down, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported.

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.

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.