To showcase the threatened underwater heritage and raise public awareness, the first ever exhibition in the Asia-Pacific region on Underwater Cultural Heritage was recently opened at Siam Ocean World in Bangkok, Thailand.
Seaweb is a multimedia public education project designed to raise awareness of the world ocean and the life within it.
The Ice Bear, as he is often called, also became the first person to complete a long distance swim in every ocean in the world.
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Turkmenistan's interest in Afghanistan is predominantly commercial: peace would allow it to pipe its oil southwards to the Indian Ocean and the world market.
We are delighted and honoured that Maud Fontenoy has accepted to serve as Spokeswoman for UNESCO IOC and the World Ocean Network to help us with this task.
Atlantic bluefin tuna -- the most high-priced ocean fish in the world -- have declined by about 90 percent since the 1960s due to overfishing.
The Base Force was oriented around the historic, U.S.-centric, two-ocean view of the world, consisting of an Atlantic Force, a Pacific Force, a Contingency Force, and a Strategic Force.
The harrowing, around-the-world Volvo Ocean Race is about halfway done and one boat celebrating a new lead over the fleet is getting some bad news: this might be your last race.
That theory was tested on a third group of data records kept by the United Nations from 1950 to 2003 of the fish and invertebrates caught in large expanses of the ocean all around the world.
But the main attraction at Clayoquot is the wilderness itself, and a slate of varied activities include horseback riding, river and ocean kayaking, whale watching, grizzly bear watching, hiking, mountain biking and world-class river, ocean, and lake fishing - some guests come primarily for the angling.
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That should not be hard nearly a quarter of the world's ocean freight passes through the South China Sea.
He gave up a six-figure salary as a marketing consultant and dedicated his life to restoring the world's ocean reef ecosystems.
The Ocean in a High CO2 World symposia are co-hosted by UNESCO-IOC, The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme.
The researchers looked at variations in oxygen levels in the shells of tiny sea creatures found in samples taken from the world's ocean beds.
But in less than 20 years more than half of the world's ocean-going cargo vessels may be too large to pass through the canal's locks.
Irina Bokova (Director-General, UNESCO) lamented that only 1% of the world's ocean areas are protected, and urged enhancing environmental education so citizens do not take ocean sustainability for granted.
Deep in the South Indian Ocean , these two protected World Heritage sites, a mere 1, 010 sea miles north of Antarctica, are rarely visited, and not at all for the past decade.
But no matter where you are in Fiji, the world's largest ocean is nearby.
Up to 650 international crews will begin and end the world's longest ocean race in front of Tower Bridge.
Since then they have been discovered at about 200 sites around the world including the Southern Ocean and the Atlantic.
On December 18th Maersk, the world's largest ocean carrier, announced it would leave Charleston by 2011, citing high costs and union intransigence.
It sounds great in theory: using human ingenuity to make fresh water for the most parched state from the world's biggest ocean.
Joram Madnack is the general manager of the French-owned Indian Ocean Tuna, one of the world's largest tuna canneries and the biggest employer in the Seychelles.
In green energy news, this week Lockheed Martin announced plans to construct the world's largest ocean thermal energy conversion plant off the southern coast of China.
The Artic Ocean sits on top of the world.
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Which is a shame, because the U.S. has the largest federal water zone in the world, with more ocean area suitable for deep-water fish farming than the country has arable land area.
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She spoke of the vital role UNESCO plays, notably concerning education in conflict and disaster-affected communities and the establishment of Early Warning Systems (EWS) for tsunami and other ocean-related hazards around the world.
For millennia, the Atlantic Ocean had been a barrier cutting Europe off from the rest of the world, but Europe's new ships effectively shrank the ocean, turning it into a commercial highway.
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.
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The Mediterranean world sketched by Braudel and the world system across the Atlantic Ocean described by Wallerstein were nothing other than subsystems of the global system that encompassed Africa, the Mediterranean, the Islamic Middle East, India, China, and Southeast Asia.
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