Atop a bluff and offering nose-bleed views of the major highway for gray whales -- aka the Pacific Ocean -- is this Cape Cod-style seaside estate from 1901, with slatted ceilings, vintage photographs, and piles of firewood near the basement.
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.
In the lndo-Pacific Ocean, for example, there are as many as 1000 species per square metre.
From a life-poor patch of ocean in the South Pacific to a life-rich lake in the East African Rift System, clear waters can be found in all different corners of the world.
Much of the past week was dominated by the attempt to stop water laced with massive amounts of radioactive particles from pouring into the Pacific Ocean -- water that comes out of the reactors "screaming with radioactivity, " Friedlander said.
It's looked not only at Brent crude but at some other exotic hydrocarbon cocktails - West Texas Intermediate, the Argus Sour Crude Index, Brent Blend or BFOE (the basket of the North Sea's Brent, Forties, Oseberg and Ekofisk), Dubai and Oman, Tapis and Minas, and East Siberia-Pacific Ocean Blend.
Some recent studies have revealed a significant concentration of particles in near-surface waters in areas of mid-ocean accumulation (N Pacific and NW Atlantic gyres).
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The effects of the 2011 tsunami in Japan were felt across the Pacific Ocean to earthquake-prone California, which shares the same tectonic plate.
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He has already helped to track down a more recent, smaller impact (a mere 2.15m years ago, and involving an object somewhere between one and four kilometres across) to another part of the Pacific ocean, south-west of Chile.
Conditions in the Pacific Ocean determine some long-distance weather patterns, which in turn affect snowfall in the West.
Tagging studies show that the scalloped hammerhead gathers at fixed sites around islands in the Eastern Pacific Ocean during its long-distance migrations.
The vehicle will take this waste into a controlled burn-up over the Pacific Ocean when it leaves the station sometime from June onwards.
It is scheduled to stay at the ISS until August, after which it will undock and take station rubbish into a controlled burn-up over the Pacific Ocean.
The Fourth Technical Workshop of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) on Ocean Forecasting System will take place in Bogor, Indonesia, 5-6 March 2013 with the kind host of the Research and Development Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research, Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries of Indonesia.
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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership is expected to take at least two years to negotiate, and joins the Trans-Pacific Partnership the Administration is negotiating with countries that touch the Pacific Ocean.
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Robertson couldn't resist Kidnappers, he says, because the land is so dramatic--6, 000 hilly acres culminating in 600-foot cliffs above the Pacific Ocean.
While typically monitored through satellite imagery direct validation of chlorophyll blooms at this resolution provides a groundbreaking link between scientific modeling and in-situ measurement of the Pacific Ocean.
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Officials have been planning to ditch the station in a controlled descent that will send it hurtling into a remote area of the Pacific Ocean, 1, 500-2, 000km east of Australia.
Officials are now planning to ditch the station in a controlled descent that will send it hurtling into a remote area of the Pacific Ocean, 1, 500-2, 000km east of Australia.
He thinks that the Pacific Ocean could become for present-day Russia what the Baltic Sea was for the country in the age of Peter the Great: a source of wealth and a gate to modernity.
Set in the dense forests of the Kii Mountains overlooking the Pacific Ocean, three sacred sites - Yoshino and Omine, Kumano Sanzan, Koyasan - linked by pilgrimage routes to the ancient capital cities of Nara and Kyoto, reflect the fusion of Shinto, rooted in the ancient tradition of nature worship in Japan, and Buddhism, which was introduced from China and the Korean Peninsula.
On the Chilean--Pacific--side of the Andes, that's courtesy of the ocean and the cold Humboldt Current.
Syncom 3 orbited above the Pacific Ocean and beamed pictures from the Tokyo Olympics to the US later that year - the first trans-Pacific TV transmission.
At least two of its six tsunami-sensing buoys stationed in the Pacific Ocean were out of service on the day the notorious Indian Ocean tsunami erupted last December.
Marine biologists working in the Pacific Ocean say they found a tasty deep-sea fish that is unexpectedly thriving.
Rancher Carol Kimsey, who lives in a valley near the Pacific Ocean on the U.S.-side of the fence, says the border barrier has improved the quality of life in the area.
The sinking of the Ryou-Un Maru brought about the end of a journey for the rust-stained ship that drifted across the Pacific Ocean as part of a giant debris field generated by a tsunami that struck Japan following a 9.0 earthquake on March 11, 2011.
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At any given time, some 250 American servicemen live in college-style dormitories at an airstrip by the Pacific Ocean.
The prospect of a bridge to Asia depends on the construction of three roads, each being built by Brazilian-led consortia, to connect Pacific and Atlantic Ocean ports.
Paraparaumu has hosted the New Zealand Open 12 times and Kauri Cliffs is one of the best in the world with six cliff-top holes that sheer off into the Pacific Ocean.
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