Sentences with phrase «vast ocean of water»

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«We have reason to be proud of our forefathers, who boldly ventured across the unknown waters of the vast Pacific Ocean,» reads the preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Each spring in the Arctic, the freshet — flooding triggered by melting snow — washes vast amounts of carbon - rich soil from the land into the water — both fresh water and the ocean.

Research begun at Princeton University found that the numerous small sea animals that migrate from the surface to deeper water every day consume vast amounts of what little oxygen is available in the ocean's aptly named «oxygen minimum zone» daily.

Great mountains of ice are melting in Antarctica, vast plains of frozen water continue to collapse into the Southern Ocean.

Schimdt has found evidence that warm ocean currents and convective forces beneath Europa's frozen shell can cause large blocks of ice to overturn and melt, bringing vast pockets of water, sometimes holding as much liquid as all of the Great Lakes combined, to within several kilometers of the moon's icy surface.

Adding vast amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere could heat a planet to the point where it leaks so much water that its oceans eventually disappear

Russia and the Ukraine on Friday again scuttled plans to create the world's largest ocean sanctuary in Antarctica, pristine waters rich in energy and species such as whales, penguins and vast stocks of fish, an environmentalist group said.

The oceans can store vast amounts of heat because it takes a large amount of heat to raise water temperature one degree.

SYDNEY (Reuters)- Russia and the Ukraine on Friday again scuttled plans to create the world's largest ocean sanctuary in Antarctica, pristine waters rich in energy and species such as whales, penguins and vast stocks of fish, an environmentalist group said.

The mantle is vast, and each speck of ringwoodite within it could contain water — potentially enough to rival the water in Earth's oceans.

The oceans contain 252 billion billion gallons of water, and the energy imbalance caused by climate change is so huge that it affects this vast system.

Like Earth, Mars must have received a lot of water at birth; some researchers think the plains that cover most of its northern hemisphere were once the bed of a vast, shallow ocean, filled by cataclysmic floods of water cascading out of the southern highlands.

The federal government is about to open up to wind energy development vast swaths of deep ocean waters, and states and wind park developers are vying to be the first to seize the new frontier.

The team investigated the trajectories of sea ice drifting in the ocean and saw a pattern of ice — and hence water — flowing northward from the vast northern coast of Russia toward the middle of the Arctic Ocean, where the radium concentrations had increocean and saw a pattern of ice — and hence water — flowing northward from the vast northern coast of Russia toward the middle of the Arctic Ocean, where the radium concentrations had increOcean, where the radium concentrations had increased.

Researchers are applying observations made by Charles Darwin's grandson to find that small organisms carry water with them as they go — which means they might play a big role in mixing vast tracts of ocean water

A vast number of animals, including fish, shrimp and squid, live in the ocean's mesopelagic zone — the waters 200 to 1000 meters (660 to 3300 feet) below the surface.

With the help of the European Huygens lander, it explored the stunningly dynamic atmosphere of Titan, discovering vast lakes of liquid methane and uncovering a vast subsurface ocean of liquid water.

Scientists announced Thursday that measurements from NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected hydrogen gas, a key energy source for microbial life, in a plume gushing from a vast liquid water ocean buried beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus.

The frigid satellite has long been thought of as candidate for possible microbial life due to its vast subsurface ocean of water.

Vast numbers of bacteria and plankton occur both at the surface and in deep ocean waters.

KAMUELA, Hawaii — With data collected from the mighty W. M. Keck Observatory, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) astronomer Mike Brown — known as the Pluto killer for discovering a Kuiper - belt object that led to the demotion of Pluto from planetary status — and Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have found the strongest evidence yet that salty water from the vast liquid ocean beneath Europa's frozen exterior actually makes its way to the surface.

As there is a vast amount of fresh water in the glacial period, in the new ice sheets, the ocean becomes Salter (3 %).

Cute, unassuming little invertebrates, these organisms are called tardigrades, or water bears, and usually spend their days crawling around on a piece of nice wet moss in a forest, or meandering through our vast oceans.

Oceans, these vast extensions of water masses, move incessantly transporting nutrients and heat.

We are proud to announce that from our nominees we have chosen to support The Ocean Conservancy in their efforts to protect the most vital and most vast parts of the Earth, our waters.

I was glad to have the Vineyard house, a tidy little Victorian on Ocean Park in the town of Oak Bluffs, with lots of frilly carpenter's Gothic along the sagging porch and a lovely morning view of the white band shell set amidst a vast sea of smooth green grass and outlined against a vaster sea of bright blue water.

The Fourth Fisherman by Joe Kissack Waterbrook, $ 19.99, 240 pages The Fourth Fisherman, by Joe Kissack, is a story about men lost at sea — one lost in the sea of worldly success and excess, and the others lost in the actual vast waters of the Pacific Ocean.

Vast stretches of scenic beaches, lapped by the warm waters of the Indian Ocean, set the Eastern Cape apart as an ideal beach holiday retreat.

One day you may be standing in awe of age old Aboriginal rock painting, to stepping ashore in Dili, to being a witness to the vast and impressive tidal changes at Montgomery Reef as the tide drops 40 feet in mid ocean trapped waters spill grandly over the edge of the exposed reef.

With a vast diversity of fish and reef illuminating the ocean waters

In August of 2013, Mike Meyer from Oceans & Coasts (from the South African Water and Environmental Affairs Ministry), Nico de Bryn (University of Pretoria) and Greg Hofmeyer (from BayWorld, in Port Elizabeth), all of whom have vast experience in marine mammal management and elephant seals, met with the South African Association for Marine Biological Research (SAAMBR) CEO, Judy Mann and the uShaka Sea World Veterinary and Animal Care team to discuss the way forward for Selso.

Shangri - La's Golf & Country club, set amid a vast coconut palm plantation, is the very first of its kind in the Sri Lankan hospitality sector; the eco-friendly, par 70, 18 - hole golf course is designed by Rodney Wright to enhance the glittering panorama of the Indian Ocean, challenging players at every turn through complex water features.

The beach drops of fairly steeply into a vast protected lagoon offering shallow and safe water for swimming, kayaking, windsurfing, and sailing, whereas offshore the reef soaks up the full force of the ocean swells and there are numerous surf spots to be found here and enjoyed by the more experienced surfers.

The beach drops of fairly steeply into a vast protected lagoon offering shallow and safe water for swimming, kayaking, windsurfing, and sailing, whereas offshore the reef soaks up the full force of the ocean swells and there are numerous surf spots to be found here and enjoyed by the more experienced surfers.Nusa Dua is for the more affluent tourists, and especially suits business conferences and honeymooners.

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This marine art exhibit presents work not just limited to ships on an ocean, but depicts a vast array of water scenes including breezy seashores, stark lighthouses, rocky coasts, a still pond, water mammals, fish and dozens of other water related subjects, animals and habitats in a variety of different media.

«For several years now, scientists have had evidence that dust from storms across the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert drifts out over the Atlantic where it reflects some solar radiation back into space, thus cooling the ocean waters that fuel hurricanes.

Are we really so dumb as to try to fish out of the sea every last animal with teeth big enough to kill us, at the expense of the ocean's health, even though the vast majority of us enter and exit the water unscathed?

As there is a vast amount of fresh water in the glacial period, in the new ice sheets, the ocean becomes Salter (3 %).

Although vast regions in the Arctic may soon be open water in summer and sometime late this century perhaps a blue ocean will exist at that end of the Earth, the sighting in 2000 was unremarkable.

Others include, the role of the Sun (being the main heat source), the vast oceans which cover over 70 % of the Earth's surface (and the natural factors which determine the storage and release of CO2 back into the atmosphere), water - vapour being the dominant greenhouse gas comprising 98 % of the atmosphere, the important role of low - level clouds which is thought to be a major factor in determining the natural variation of climate temperatures (P.S. Significantly, computer - models are unable to replicate cloud - formation and coverage — which again — injects bias into model).

There is absolutely no reason to believe that this effect will do anything but get stronger from here on as the vast «crops» of oceanic bacteria adapt to both warmer ocean waters and increased CO2 and nutrient levels and simply increasingly cool the global atmospheric climate simply by «growing faster»!

That La Niña [generally leading to a cool year — because a lot of cool deep ocean water is spread out over a vast area of the Pacific, interacting with the atmosphere] may have been one of the strongest ever.

It's a region of the North Pacific ocean where the northern jet stream and the southern trade winds, moving opposite directions, create a vast, gently circling region of water called the North Pacific Gyre — and at its center, there are tons of plastic garbage.

Roughly 97 % of the planet's water is in its oceans, and the oceans are the source of the vast majority of water vapor that condenses in the atmosphere and falls as rain or snow on the continents.

Most of the deep ocean warming is occurring in the subtropical ocean gyres - vast rotating masses of water in each ocean basin where near - surface currents converge and are forced downward into the ocean interior.

Given the vast pool of very cold water in the deep ocean, even modest changes in the rate it exchanges heat with the surface can produce large changes in temperature without any change in the planetary radiative balance.

Or have situation similar as with H20 - large concentration [vast oceans] and thereby resulting forming clouds or conglomerates of water droplets and H20 gas.

Sediment cores the team collected by drilling in front of the current Cosgrove Ice Shelf indicate that relatively warm ocean waters dissolved the vast ice shelf and even some of the glacier behind it about 2000 years ago, they recently reported.

As the last major ice age began to recede around 17,000 years ago, polar ice caps in the north and south started to melt, releasing vast quantities of fresh water into the salty oceans, altering natural currents, affecting the environment.