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But much remains to be done to bring up to speed the capacities of the managers of these sites and to ensure that the wide range of ocean ecosystems is fully represented on the World Heritage List.
UNESCO: Detailview | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
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The palm trees sway gently under a balmy sun, the beaches are perfect, and stretched out as far as the eye can see is the wide blue of the Pacific Ocean.
CNN: Drowning islands warn of future perils for 'environmental refugees'
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In the west of the city, Outer Sunset and Outer Richmond have great access to Ocean Beach, a wide sandy expanse on the Pacific Ocean.
BBC: Living in: Great waterfront cities
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The tsunami waves swept across a wide swath of the Pacific Ocean, killing dozens and flattening or submerging villages.
CNN: Officials: Indonesia quake toll could soar
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The plane performed its weightless maneuvers over a chunk of airspace 100 miles long by 10 miles wide over the Atlantic Ocean.
CNN: Teachers take weightless ride to inspire students
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As a slight rain started to fall, each woman opened a wide umbrella, a rainbow of polka dots popping up amid the ocean of green.
BBC: Getting to the heart and soul of hilly Sri Lanka
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Exercise IOWave11 re-enacted the 26 December 2004 earthquake event, with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the North West coast of Sumatra (Indonesia), followed by an ocean-wide tsunami.
UNESCO: THEMES
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The scenario established for the "Exercise IOWAVE 11" re-enacts the events of 26 December 2004, with a 9.2 magnitude earthquake off the North West coast of Sumatra (Indonesia), followed by an ocean-wide tsunami.
UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences
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There are river channels and flood plains galore on the planet's surface, and even a hemisphere-wide depression that many interpret as an ocean bed.
ECONOMIST: A drought on Mars