Sentences with phrase «year living in the ocean»

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In a billion years, for instance, a swelling sun will scorch our food chain, boil our oceans and extinguish life on Earth as we know it.

Each month we now pour so many millions of tons of poisonous waste into the living sea that in perhaps twenty years, perhaps sooner, the oceans will have received their mortal wound and will start to die.

Q. 2 Likewise, we know that life on Earth evolved over the last approximately 3.5 billion years and likely began in a planet wide «organic soup» of complex organic chemicals in the primordial oceans, in an increasingly well understood process.

And if you're wondering if that narrative can pierce the most skeptical heart, I found my own hand lifted to heaven during a live rendition of their mega-hit «Oceans» in spite of bitterness I carried for years, right in the middle of a movie theater.

Two thousand years later, the average person lives on a lonely island of separation in the midst of a vast ocean of the divine offer of community.

Each year, for 12 years, give or take, my family and I have been making a similar crossing, albeit of the ocean, to live in Italy for cultural exchanges, language learning, educational growth, and to show our children a different way of life than the one we lead in Massachusetts, USA.

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

So a message to you little humans, we love you and you're damn cute, but until you can leave home and live in the ocean for a whole year without someone changing your nappy or feeding you old people's food, you've got nothing to complain about, so just....

Backers of the fee note that New Yorkers consume 9 billion disposable bags a year, which clutter parks, cling to trees, accrue into islands in the world's oceans, strangle marine life and cost the city sanitation system an estimated $ 12.5 million annually to process.

In his «I Have a Dream Speech,» Dr. King reminded us that one hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, blacks still lived on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperitIn his «I Have a Dream Speech,» Dr. King reminded us that one hundred years after the Emancipation Proclamation, blacks still lived on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperitin the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.

The organization also awards $ 20,000 to graduating high school seniors attending a 4 - year college in the fall who live in the areas of Ocean Hill, Brownsville and East New York.

Roughly 800 million years ago, in the late Proterozoic Eon, phosphorus, a chemical element essential to all life, began to accumulate in shallow ocean zones near coastlines widely considered to be the birthplace of animals and other complex organisms, according to a new study by geoscientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Yale University.

Cesium - 134 has a half - life of a little over two years, and so any found in the ocean could come only from the reactors at Fukushima.

While oxygen is believed to have first accumulated in Earth's atmosphere around 2.45 billion years ago, new research shows that oceans contained plentiful oxygen long before that time, providing energy - rich habitat for early life.

«My state is ground zero for this,» emphasized U.S. Senator Bill Nelson of Florida, and he added that 75 % of the population lives along the coast, and the ocean in the southern part of the state has risen eight inches over the last four years.

Climate change could reduce oxygen levels in the oceans by 40 per cent over the next 8000 years, leading to dramatic changes in marine life

In the twilight of their brief lives adult Pacific salmon migrate back to their river of birth to spawn, perpetuating a four - year life cycle that boomerangs thousands of kilometers into the ocean.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, during the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg, and in the small hours of the next day went down into the cold Atlantic Ocean with the loss of 1,517 lives.

Just last year, Iliffe traveled to Christmas Island, a remote spot in the Indian Ocean, for a high - profile, National Geographic - funded expedition to discover life in the island's underwater caves, and in particular to find a small crustacean called a remipede.

Oxygen in the atmosphere and ocean rose dramatically about 600 million years ago, coinciding with the first proliferation of animal life.

The planned «Census of Marine Life,» a 10 - year, billion - dollar effort, aims to answer three questions, says co-developer Jesse Ausubel of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in New York City: «What did, what does, and what will live in the ocean?»

This variability includes the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), a long - lived El Niño - like pattern of Pacific climate variability that works like a switch every 30 years or so between two different circulation patterns in the North Pacific Ocean.

Scientists have found that about half of the organisms at Cuatro Cienegas are most closely related to marine life, even though the oases here have not been in contact with the ocean for tens of millions of years.

But a few billion years ago a slightly fainter sun might have allowed for a relatively cool Venus, one where liquid water could have pooled in vast oceans that were friendly to life.

An international team of scientists has discovered a new lineage of extinct plankton - feeding sharks, Pseudomegachasma, that lived in warm oceans during the age of the dinosaurs nearly 100 million years ago.

A study described here today at the American Geophysical Union's biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting shows that RNA's chemical building blocks fall apart within days to years at temperatures near boiling — a finding that poses problems for some origin of life theories, especially ones picturing that life arose in scalding settings such as deep - sea hydrothermal vents.

As scientists continue finding evidence for life in the ocean more than 3 billion years ago, those ancient fossils pose a paradox.

A new species of fossil baleen whale that lived in the North Pacific Ocean 30 to 33 million years ago has been described by researchers from New Zealand's University of Otago.

They are also thought to have helped aerate ancient seas, boosting life in the oceans some 750 million years ago.

What Pleistocene humans did in 1,500 years to terrestrial life, modern man has done in mere decades to the oceans — «almost,» Jackson says.

«Although tiny, these organisms are a vital part of the Earth's life support system, providing half of the oxygen generated each year on Earth by photosynthesis and lying at the base of marine food chains on which all other life in the ocean depends.»

An ongoing, decadelong effort by scientists from more than 80 countries to fathom the contents of the global ocean will culminate next year in a definitive Census of Marine Life.

The shale, named for the town of Eagle Ford, TX, is a geologic remnant of the ancient ocean that covered present day Texas millions of years ago, when the remains of sea life (especially ancient plankton) died and deposited onto the seafloor, were buried by several hundred feet of sediment, eventually turning into the rich source of hydrocarbons we have today.The shale was first tapped in 2008 and now has around 20 active fields good producing over 900 million cubic feet per day of natural gas.

Devonian Fossils Petoskey, Michigan Some 350 million years ago, Michigan lay under a shallow ocean in which coral, trilobites, and other marine life thrived.

«Microbes could have crawled out of the ocean and lived in a slime layer on the rocks on land, even before 3.2 billion years ago.»

The 2.52 billion - year - old sulfur - oxidizing bacteria are described by Czaja as exceptionally large, spherical - shaped, smooth - walled microscopic structures much larger than most modern bacteria, but similar to some modern single - celled organisms that live in deepwater sulfur - rich ocean settings today, where even now there are almost no traces of oxygen.

The other, which has gained popularity in recent years, is that deep - sea vents at the bottom of the ocean acted as a cradle for life, offering both heat and nutrition via fluids pumped up through Earth's crust.

She said: «Dickinsonia belongs to the Ediacaran biota — a collection of mostly soft - bodied organisms that lived in the global oceans between roughly 580 and 540 million years ago.

After loggerhead turtle hatchlings leave nesting beaches, they live in the ocean for 7 - 12 years before migrating to coastal habitats.

Mild oxygen levels in shallow seas but oxygen - poor deep oceans lasted for some 1.3 billion years during a time that has been dubbed the «Boring Billion» but eventually led to the development of mitochondria that now power multicellular planet and animal life (Nick Lane, New Scientist, February 10, 2010; Rachel Ehrenberg, Science News, September 29, 2009; Johnston et al, 2009; and H.D. Holland, 2006).

After over three billion years of evolution in the oceans, multi-cellular life — beginning with green algae, fungi, and plants (liverworts, mosses, ferns, then vascular and flowering plants)-- began adapting to land habitats by creating a new «hypersea,» and adding anomalous shades of green to Earth's coloration more than 472 million years ago (Matt Walker, BBC News, October 12, 2010; and Qiu et al, 1998 — more on the evolution of photosynthetic life and plants on Earth).

Bacteria, however, have remained Earth's most successful form of life — found miles deep below as well as within and on surface rock, within and beneath the oceans and polar ice, floating in the air, and within as well as on Homo sapiens sapiens; and some Arctic thermophiles apparently even have life - cycle hibernation periods of up to a 100 million years while waiting for warmer conditions underneath increasing layers of sea sediments (Lewis Dartnell, New Scientist, September 20, 2010; and Hubert et al, 2010).

In terms of the potential for life, he said the only possible drawback is that due to its size, it only take about 250 million years for the entire ocean to be recycled through the rock — and once this is done, the number of chemical reactions that take place becomes very limited.

As the zircons were radioactively dated to be as old as 4.25 billion years, the new findings suggest that carbon - based life may have been present on Earth within the first 300 million years after planetary formation, possibly as a «planetary mega-organism» in Earth's oceans (Michael Marshall, New Scientist, November 25, 2011).

At that rate, by the year 2400, the oceans may become acidified by the same amount seen in the Great Dying — when nearly every living species on Earth went extinct.

Over a year ago, scientists uncovered a microbe that lives in hot - water geysers on the ocean floor near Iceland.

Like Galileo, which circled Jupiter for eight years before crashing into the planet in 2003, Juno's demise is designed to prevent any hitchhiking microbes from Earth from inadvertently contaminating Jupiter's ocean - bearing moon Europa, a target of future study for extraterrestrial life.

«The biggest challenge is how to manage the oceans given that most of the world's population will be using and living next to an ocean in the next 50 years or so.

Thus, 2.5 billion years ago the oceans on Earth were warm and able to precipitate silica as a preserving medium for early life forms in a way not found on Earth today, except in hot springs.

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