Punta del Este, an hour and a half from Montevideo, has condominiums and high rises lining the beaches that reach out into the water, with the Rio de la Plata on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other.
On the other side of the ocean, Japan has a chain of 14 tsunami detectors off its coasts.
The City on the Bay sits on a peninsula with the Pacific Ocean on one side and San Francisco Bay on the other.
Yet the basic principle of the cables is shockingly simple: Light goes in on one shore of the ocean and comes out on the other.
On the other side of the Indian Ocean, the Sri Lankan government did not respond as efficiently as the Indonesian government.
She could have added that changes in solar output have no impact on ocean acidification, the other major impact of rising carbon dioxide concentrations.
The famous singer seemed happy to have been found, and the two sat with their arms around each other and took long walks on the bluffs above the ocean, hand in hand.
At these depths, everything must be done with remote-control robots that install the blowout preventers, submersible pumps and other devices to manage the flow of oil and water on the ocean floor.
In too many cases, playing piracy on the ocean, and creating danger for other ships, is simply not liked.
The house is on South Ocean Boulevard, where other owners include Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer.
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They act as grazers on the ocean floor (manatees are the only other animals that do this), helping keep a balance under the sea for other creatures to live and breed.
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The trail begins with a wicked climb up 650 steps carved into a hillside and ends a brutal (and lovely) seven miles later (and after a 2, 200-foot climb and descent) on the other side of Mount Tamalpais, at the tiny town of Stinson Beach on the coast of the Pacific Ocean.
Since cesium binds to the sediment on the ocean floor, the radiation has likely had the biggest effect on bottom-dwelling fish and other animals though the consequences still aren't clear, said Tatsuo Aono, a specialist at Japan's National Institute of Radiological Sciences.
The Bush administration is urging the Senate to consent this summer to the Convention on the Law of the Sea, the complex and sprawling treaty that governs shipping, navigation, mining, fishing and other ocean activities.
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Furthermore, pavement on land creates "expressways" for oil and other pollutants to run into the ocean.
In other words, the extraction process, if done improperly, could cause sudden disruptions on the ocean floor, reducing ocean pressure rates and releasing methane gas from hydrates.
Digital bits can be, ought to be, regulated the way ships are on the ocean: Ships are free to go anywhere, as long as they don't bump into other ships.
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