On Earth, sea-floor spreading is fuelled by molten rock upwelling from deep inside the Earth.
Last week the BBC World broadcast a special GOOS and Argo episode of the "Earth Reporters Sea Change".
For there is none worthy of the name but God, whom heaven, earth, and sea obey.
There is a polyglot of deities, holdovers from ancient rural animism, including earth gods, sea gods, kitchen gods and hundreds of patron saints.
Some scientists, giving their imaginations free rein (and extrapolating from Earth's own sea creatures), have suggested filter-feeders, such as whales.
Godspeed, Neil Armstrong, as the vestiges of your presence on earth slip into the sea, and thanks for the lessons.
When I arrive in Rio for the sustainable development summit, I know that when the buildings along the coast come into view, I shall think of those words, convinced that the sea will determine the future of Earth.
Ian Lipkin, a Columbia researcher who was an author on the Science paper, says his bee work could provide "a road map for addressing outbreaks of infectious disease" like SARS. Metagenomics could also open a window on the invisible microbes, still undiscovered, that live in the earth, air and sea.
While the crew enjoyed the port town at sea level, the strongest man on earth preferred to admire Barcelona from above, choosing the hilltop of Montjuic, which overlooks the city, for its magnificent views.
Each tray included contact details so it could be sent back to SEA once it was found on its return to earth.
Numerous helicopter companies (most based in Lihu'e) offer up-in-the-air jaunts over waterfall-striped Mt Wai'ale'ale, the island's central shield volcano and one of the wettest spots on Earth, and the sheer-hewn sea cliffs of the Na Pali coast, accessible otherwise only by ocean kayak.
These may not be the sea monsters Jules Verne describes in Journey to the Centre of the Earth, but Iceland is the setting for his famous novel.
Under the Sea transports viewers to some of the most exotic undersea locations on Earth, including Southern Australia, New Guinea and others in the Indo-Pacific region, allowing them to experience face-to-face encounters with some of the most mysterious and stunning creatures of the sea.
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The IPCC Panel's near-consensus was that human activity is having some discernible impact on climate, and that by 2100, a warming earth could result in more frequent storms and droughts, sea level rise of up to three feet, and up to six degrees F. in temperature rise.
The problem is, as sea level rises, storm surges become more dangerous and more frequent, and sea levels along the northeast Atlantic coast are rising faster than most anyplace on earth.
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Pat Gowen, from Friends of the Earth, says 96 bungalows have been lost at Winterton-on-Sea, including his own.
From source to sea and through the never ending water cycle, water connects all corners of planet Earth.
Two decades after Al Gore's historic hearings and James Hansen's histrionic Earth temperature-tipping point prognostications replete with dire eyeball-sizzling, sea level-surging, North Pole-melting, Water World-producing consequences, the planet seems to have entered another cooling phase.
Friends of the Earth Scotland said the spill showed the dangers of offshore drilling in the North Sea.
This is the lesson we should have learned when Beijing stopped the export of rare-earth minerals to Japan last month to gain an advantage in their East China Sea dispute.
Located in one of the driest regions on earth at an altitude at which the atmosphere is 50 percent thinner than at sea level, ALMA is the highest construction project in the world and arguably the most challenging.
On September 21, for instance, Beijing clearly violated its World Trade Organization obligations by banning the sale of rare-earth minerals to Japan to intimidate Tokyo in their territorial dispute in the East China Sea.
The team has calculated that Alaskan glaciers are responsible for at least 9% of the global sea-level rise during the past century, and Alaska's glaciers raise the level of Earth's oceans by more than one-tenth of a millimetre each year.
How on earth were such folk outsmarted by a provincial hick best known for its Ski-Doos and Sea-Doos?
On Earth, the continents lie on tectonic plates that move relative to each other, creating mountains and deep sea shelves.
If you go out from Earth up into space, you see our entire planet is a living organism - be it in the sea with all the fish, on the land with all the reptiles and mammals and insects, but the way man is behaving at the moment needs attention.
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