Sentences with phrase «than the ocean as»

Worse, climate models predict that the areas where marine preserves are most prevalent — coastal regions in the northern hemisphere — will see greater increases in temperature than the oceans as a whole, Halpin said.

Florida scientists have identified a series of these natural marine «hotspots» where the seas are rising far faster than the oceans as a whole, in response to glacial melting and thermal expansion of the waters.

Not exact matches

Four out of the top five cities are Pacific Ocean adjacent — San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle and San Diego — and in each of these metropolises, more than 14 percent of households are categorized as «wealthy.»

There may be more than 16 times as much plastic in the vortex than previous studies have estimated, according to the Ocean Cleanup researchers.

While FourKites has grown its customer base and network exponentially, it has also expanded tracking coverage to Europe and South America, and to include shipments moving by ocean, rail and parcel, in addition to truckload and less - than - truckload (LTL), as well as real - time trailer temperature and condition monitoring.

It's 60 percent larger than Earth, with sunshine, oceans, active volcanoes, twice as much gravity and a 385 - day - long year.

I think of God as being more like the ocean and that he fills us rather than loves us.

The first is that our planet's oceans act as a massive watery heat - sink, and currently absorb more than 90 percent of increased atmospheric heat that are associated with human activity.

In the past of earlier decades every nation or individuals of any nation were happy to deal or trade or buy from Islamic traders marking them as being most honest and truthful... that's how they were known as traders who's their sea trade extended from Indian ocean to the China Sea... those other than the land transportation by Camel Caravans moving between the South and North as well as between the far East and the far West...!!

Even though it feels like a drop in the ocean, Unpopular Culture (SPCK) was written for such a time as this — to help other young people trying to find their place in a world that is harder to understand than ever before.

There is an ocean of people out there who have been cast aside by churches and holier - than - thou church - goers such as yourself that need to know that they are not alone and need a place to connect with other people who are on an authentic journey of faith.

Not to mention, as Nil Zacharias, Co-Founder of One Green Planet so aptly pointed out, we treat the world's oceans more like a toilet bowl than a sustainable food source.

The Real Hospitality Group portfolio includes 64 hotel properties with an inventory of more than 8,640 rooms in gateway cities that include New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Boston and locations in Newark, Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach, DE; as well as Montauk, New York, and Ocean City, MD..

Many see little more than the native marketplace, the professional dance spectacles and the hotel bar, But the wise and the adventurous traveler may discover such beyond - the - beyond islands as Bora - Bora and follow such guides as Erwin Christian into the glorious ocean

Although the rooms were no larger in size than the other rooms (from what I observed), we did have a great king size bed in the OV room and the balcony was a tad larger as it was an ocean view.

As for the ocean, it's fairly rough (i.e. waves more than a foot tall if you were more than 10 metres off the beach) and very few people braved any of the watersports that were available.

Last year, Operation Dear Abby sent more than 6 million pieces of mail to our servicemen and women stationed in Japan, Korea, Iceland and Europe, as well as to those serving in the Mediterranean and Indian Oceans.

The work uses strong nation - building references, such as referential movement depicting a group of people going towards their death, then becoming trees, ocean, and forming a strong collective out of a group of individuals; its language movement is very dramatic and places a strong emphasis on unison movement rather than individual dancers.

Airborne particles smaller than 50 nanometers across can intensify storms, particularly over relatively pristine regions such as the Amazon rainforest or the oceans, new research suggests.

The subsurface ocean of Europa contains more than twice as much water as Earth's oceans.

And then there is what I regard as Cassini's most profound discovery of all: at the south pole of the moon Enceladus, more than 100 geysers spouting from an underground ocean that could be home to extraterrestrial organisms.

This tidal energy produces more than enough internal heat to create a global water ocean, possibly as thick in places as 50 kilometers, buried under an outer layer of ice a few kilometers thick.

Global warming is altering — and threatening to erase — much more of the Marshall Islands than the shorelines of this independent Micronesian nation that once served as a Pacific Ocean nuclear weapons test site for the U.S..

While coral reefs make up less than 0.1 percent of the sea floor, they serve as habitats for about 25 percent to 35 percent of all the oceans» fishes, roughly 500 million people worldwide rely on them as a source of protein and for coastal protection, and they are responsible for billions of dollars in tourism and fisheries revenue.

«Although most of the macrophyte carbon is released back to the atmosphere in the same form that it is assimilated, carbon dioxide, some of it is actually exported to the ocean as dissolved carbon or released to the atmosphere as methane, a gas that has a warming potential 20 times larger than carbon dioxide,» said John Melack, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

It takes time to cover something as large as the world's oceans, so the 2,000 - plus census takers from more than 80 countries have broken up their assignment into 17 more manageable subgroups — like coral reefs, continental shelves, and mid-ocean ridges — that should provide a good overview of what's out there.

The world's largest ocean is absorbing carbon dioxide, and turning more acidic as a result, faster than expected

But nearly twice as much of the sunlight energy captured by phytoplankton in the ocean is released as heat than is used to make food, researchers report January 7 in Science.

The process may also play a part in the mixing between atmosphere and oceans, as smaller bubbles tend to absorb gas faster than big ones and are better at spitting out aerosol droplets when they pop.

Lake Whillans has a subsurface connection with the ocean beneath the ice shelf, making it more dynamic than isolated lakes such as Vostok.

The study found that more than 4.8 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the oceans from land each year, and that figure may be as high as 12.7 million metric tons.

They should preserve their oceans for billions of years, as well as or better than Earth, owing to adequate mantle recycling of water.

While the two closest planets could have lost 15 times as much water as is in all of Earth's oceans, the third planet — still closer to the star than the habitable zone — might have lost less than one ocean, they reported in the January Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

As a result of such breakups, more than 150 cubic kilometers of glacial ice has slid off land into the ocean.

Mozambique is among the African countries most vulnerable to climate change, with over 1,550 miles of coastline, more than half of its population living along the ocean, and cities that function as the nation's economic hubs.

Whereas Pluto's putative ocean could in principle support life, it is probably locked beneath perhaps 200 kilometers of ice and very far from Earth, making it a much less appealing target for astrobiological studies than other, closer subsurface oceans known to exist in the solar system, such as those within the icy moons circling Jupiter and Saturn.

It's not a new phenomenon; this «thumb» of Antarctica, which juts out into the stormy Southern Ocean, has lost more than 28,000 square kilometers of floating ice — almost as large as Massachusetts — over the past half - century.

In a depth - defying feat of dazzling daring last year, the robot known as Nereus dove to the deepest spot in the ocean and spent 10 hours exploring a spot that is deeper than Mount Everest is high.

«Our paper shows that the waves, which are created by what's known as the Kelvin - Helmholtz instability, happens much more frequently than previously thought,» says coauthor Joachim «Jimmy» Raeder of the UNH Space Science Center within the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space.

Then, in 2015, the National Science Board endorsed proceeding from the design to the construction of the vessels — but advised NSF to include construction of two, rather than three, vessels in its future funding requests, following a recommendation for belt - tightening as laid out in the National Research Council's decadal survey for ocean sciences, released in early 2015.

«Both the physical ocean and the life within it are shifting much more rapidly than our models predicted for the Arctic,» Alter notes, adding that temperatures there are rising twice as fast as everywhere else on the planet.

Research published Sunday concluded that the upper 2,300 feet of the Southern Hemisphere's oceans may have warmed twice as quickly after 1970 than had previously been thought.

More than twice as salty as the ocean, Mono Lake's arsenic - laced waters support a vibrant ecosystem that is home to some bizarre earthlings.

As of March 2013, surface waters of the tropical north Atlantic Ocean remained warmer than average, while Pacific Ocean temperatures declined from a peak in late fall.

As the spacecraft sidled up to the comet, it sampled the water streaming from the comet body and found 67P's D / H ratio to be staggeringly high — more than three times that of Earth's oceans (SN: 1/10/15, p. 8).

Scientists are finding that, in general, larger ocean organisms such as fishes have less tolerance for temperature change than the microorganisms they consume, such as phytoplankton.

However, the discovery in 2015 of an oscillation in Enceladus's rotation known as a libration, which is linked to tidal effects, suggests that it has a global ocean and a much thinner ice shell than predicted, with a mean thickness of around 20 km.

Sailors refer to calm seas as glass, and astronomers in turn have their own nautical metaphor for the smoothness of each of the newest generation telescope mirrors: imagine the entire Atlantic Ocean without a single wave higher than a few inches.

As a result — and for reasons that remain unexplained — the waters of the Southern Ocean may have begun to release carbon dioxide, enough to raise concentrations in the atmosphere by more than 100 parts per million over millennia — roughly equivalent to the rise in the last 200 years.

The research, conducted by researchers at New York University and the University of Miami (Fla.), shows that «doom and gloom» language was present in only 10 percent of the analyzed U.S. newspaper articles; by contrast, optimistic language — such as, «the oceans are mostly intact, still wild enough to bounce back to ecological health» (New York Times, January 15, 2015)-- was present in more than a quarter of these stories.