Berkeley Earth plan to address ocean temperatures (which the IPCC state has not warmed as much as land) in their next study, with a view to gaining a more accurate view of the total amount of observable global warming.
Nasa says its six-tonne UARS satellite plunged to Earth over the Pacific Ocean, off the US west coast.
To this day, the indigenous peoples of the Pacific while separated by the largest ocean on earth, remain linked to one another through language, culture and history.
Later, I went on my laptop, logged on to Google Earth, found Madagascar, and was able to visually travel across the ocean from that island country to Cape Town by slowly spinning the globe with a click-and-drag.
The ocean on Earth is thought to have been where life started, so these discoveries have led optimists to wonder whether the moons of Jupiter, rather than the deserts of Mars, may yield the first signs of extraterrestrial life.
About 100 million years ago, sea levels were about 300 metres higher than at present because of changes in the volume of ocean basins due to movement by the Earth's techtonic plates.
The high prices fetched for copper, gold and rare-earth minerals are leading to a surge in interest in mining the ocean floor.
BBC: UK Seabed Resources joins deep-ocean mineral-mining rush
Today, hundreds of floats deployed under the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), coordinated by UNESCO and largely supported by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), are used to measure ocean temperature, salinity and tsunami risk.
We're talking about frozen carbon dioxide, frozen other kinds of gases, but also water ice, and it's thought by most astronomers now that, originally, comets contributed a huge amount of water to Earth and a lot of what is now in our ocean.
The unmanned Dragon spacecraft cast off from the International Space Station early Thursday morning and survived a fiery re-entry through Earth's atmosphere to make an apparently flawless splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California.
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Exhaust gases from shipping already brighten clouds over various bits of the ocean, and in so doing are thought to cool the Earth appreciably.
To make room for the continual addition of new ocean crust, all the Earth's plates move.
Evidence was also given to the committee by representatives from the Coastal Monitoring Centre, Cardiff School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and the Local Government Association.
The Galapagos -- 19 islands that lie 600 miles west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean -- are home to species of animals found nowhere else on Earth.
Effects stemming from the Earth's atmosphere, from ocean tides and from the solar wind of charged particles were all found to be too small to explain the spacecrafts' extra velocity.
This Earth Day, keep in mind that each of us affects everyone else on Earth, because we all share the land, the ocean and especially the air on what is proving to be a pretty small planet.
Although scientists have long recognised that mid latitudes were warmer when dinosaurs walked the Earth, some researchers have held to the view - partly based on the previous shell data - that different ocean currents must have operated at the time, leading to warmer polar temperatures but, crucially, cooler tropical temperatures.
The Ocean Challenge Badge is designed to help educate children and young people about the vital role the ocean plays in supporting life on Earth.
Last year, he hired undersea experts to scan the ocean floor to find the massive engines that propelled the Apollo 11's space capsule from Earth to outer space.
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This weekend, in addition to being the groundbreaking time when a national institution auctions off oversized goldfish, is also the time that we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Trieste descending to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest point on earth 7 miles beneath the shiny waves of the Pacific Ocean.
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