Youth are also invited to take action for the ocean through the UNESCO Youth Forum as part of the closing events of the Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea for the Living Ocean and Coasts.
Such is the demand for natural gas around Fort McMurray that a consortium of companies, including Shell Canada and Imperial Oil, has proposed building a seven-hundred-and-fifty-mile pipeline from the Arctic Ocean through the largely undisturbed wilderness of the Mackenzie River Valley and down into northern Alberta.
The Argos deployed off the Lady Amber constitute a major contribution to the Indian Ocean Observing System and will assist scientists better understand and be able to predict the Indian Ocean's dynamics, and thereby lead to societal benefit as that understanding and associated products transfer to Indian Ocean communities through the Indian Ocean Global Ocean Observing System (IOGOOS) framework.
We've demonstrated delivery of ocean data services through the most challenging ocean conditions.
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From here, you can gaze down at the ocean shifting through a paint-chart's worth of blues as the ship draws closer to the islands.
She noted her organization's leading role in protecting ocean ecosystems through the establishment of marine heritage sites, which represent one-third of the world's marine protected areas.
The direct results of human activities on the ocean and through climate change are causing the blue part of this blue planet to warm, rise, and lose oxygen.
Initially, it is a soft, foul-smelling matter that floats on the ocean but through exposure to the sun and the salt water over years it turns into a smooth lump of compact rock which feels waxy and has a sweet smell.
Ocean water pours through a series of pipes into rows of reverse osmosis filters which purify the water.
Cold ocean water leaks through the rock, hits the red-hot underground lava and bubbles up to the surface.
More than four-fifths of crude oil bound for China crosses the Indian Ocean before passing through the narrow Malacca Strait.
Incredibly refreshing ocean breezes blow through the newly renovated, open-air lobby.
This time, however, a total eclipse will be visible in a thin strip from Iran to the Pacific ocean, cutting through the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Song, Richards and colleagues studied waves generated by small earthquakes in the southern Atlantic Ocean that passed through the core to a seismograph in Alaska where they were measured.
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The removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, either through the enhancement of natural weathering processes or direct capture from ambient air are further examples, as well as the enhancement of oceanic CO2 uptake through ocean fertilisation with scarce nutrients or the enhancement of upwelling processes.
They swam for 12 to 14 hours, talking as they pushed and shivered their way through the ocean.
It is possible that larger seeps at different times and locations might in fact be vigorous enough to break through the ocean surface.
Many pitches involve ways to spread the word about ocean pollution, mostly through social media: iPhone Apps, data sharing, and location based check-in schemes.
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Their sheer size as they cut through the ocean, the scream of planes taking off and coming into land, makes them an exciting, visceral experience, says Thompson.
As the Plastiki sails through an ocean of trash we should all be ashamed of what we have done to this planet and what we have condemned our children to live with.
Among the eclectic choices: a computer game that solves scientific problems, a nonprofit co-founded by actor Matt Damon that leverages donor funds to provide microloans to clean water projects and a venture by Japanese technology giant Mitsubishi that makes ships move more efficiently through the ocean, cutting down on CO2 emissions.
In this perspective, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (UNESCO-IOC) provided an overview on the key ocean issues that are being discussed through the Rio negotiation process and highlighted a number of desirable ocean targets that would mark a successful outcome at Rio.
Unlike other ocean technologies, generating power through osmosis doesn't involve operating in the harsh environment of, say, a deep sea operation.
As he guided me through the virtual ocean, which currently has 60 species of fish, he was talking about the whole underwater world.
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Many foreign companies go through the Indian Ocean nation to invest in India, which doesn't have a treaty safeguarding investments with the U.S. and some other countries.
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Actually, what's commonly known as the Gulf Stream is just part of a wider phenomenon know as Thermohaline, responsible for transporting heat to Europe through the Atlantic Ocean.
For someone who had never gone faster than 8 knots on a sailboat, watching him and his crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round-the-World Race blaze through the Southern Ocean on the 90-foot Steinlager II was nothing short of incredible.
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Phytoplankton -- microscopic organisms that congregate near the ocean surface - absorb atmospheric CO2 through photosynthesis.
The WOC has created major interest and momentum for significantly scaling up ocean and climate observations by industry through a coordinated international program.
Now, the whales migrate through a channel of ocean that's heavily trafficked by cargo and fishing ships, earning the species a new nickname: the urban whale.
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