More than 10 million cargo containers are moving across the world's oceans at any given time.
There are some 25, 000 ships plying the world's oceans at any given time.
At 275 meters (902 feet) long and 70 meters (230 feet) wide, the Vanguard can lift 110, 000 tonnes and travel across oceans at 14 knots.
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After sampling waters from the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans at all latitudes, they found that the amount of AAPB in the water is controlled mainly by the level of planktonic algae in the region, rather than by the amount of light.
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The world's oceans were at their hottest in recorded history, and Katrina was rapidly transformed into a raging demon.
"You can't be a seafood business and not sell salmon and shrimp, " says Tim Fitzgerald, a scientist in the oceans program at the Environmental Defense Fund.
In a time of great economic uncertainty, it may be controversial to point out that a profitable industry is affecting their own sustainability by blatantly overfishing our oceans while at the same time exposing us to great risk, but everyone has a right to know.
Oceans Day at Durban will draw high-level attention to ocean issues during the COP17 climate talks, highlighting the direct link between climate change, the health of the oceans, and human well-being, as well as the need for sufficient funding to support bold mitigation and adaptation measures that will minimize climate change impacts on coastal communities and ocean ecosystems and resources.
Brendan Cummings, oceans programme director at the Center for Biological Diversity which has brought several court actions against the Bush administration on climate change, also welcomed the commercial fishing ban but said curbing greenhouse emissions was also vital for the long-term preservation of corals.
The fourth is a study by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, in California, into changes in the way the world's oceans have warmed up at different depths over the past 65 years.
Bacteria would still be able to live in hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the oceans, kept going by heat generated radioactively in the earth's crust.
Mid-continent warming will be greater than over the oceans, and there will be greater warming at higher latitudes.
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Athletes are the ultimate road warriors, crossing continents and oceans, fighting through jetlag to compete and perform at the highest level.
With even the faintest hopes of victory faintly banished, survival was the watchword for India and the two right-handers with oceans of experience behind them kept Australia's bowlers at bay.
The current transports water from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans throughout the Arctic, said Tom Weingartner, a marine scientist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
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The chopper breathalyser is featured in the BBC's new Oceans series, which records a series of underwater scientific expeditions aimed at building up a global picture of the state of our seas.
To understand the nutrient composition of the ancient oceans, it's important to know which iron minerals were around at the time.
It also outlines proposals for children to be taught a chronological history of Britain, to begin to write simple computer programs at age five and to learn the names of continents, oceans, countries and geographic features, as well as how to use maps and compasses in geography lessons.
These buoys are placed at intervals along specific lines of longitude throughout the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
In April of this year, a group of scientific experts came together at the University of Oxford to discuss the current state of our oceans.
There will be film showings, painting competitions and lecture series aimed at raising public awareness and promoting creativity and individual action for healthier oceans and coasts.
Thanks to a broad collection of water sample, the Tara Oceans expedition allows a better understanding of the environmental conditions affecting the sampled organisms at a global scale.
The film is based on the results of a large-scale research programme on the oceans, called Census of Marine Life, whose main findings will be presented at the conference.
Because of the distance that low-frequency sound waves can travel under water, a set of four ships emitting sound at 235 decibels could monitor 80% of the world's oceans for submarines.
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At the same time, in abrupt digressions, the cosmos churned, oceans teemed, nebulae exploded.
The business helped advertisers efficiently buy ad impressions at-scale across the long-tail of the web and its oceans filled with trillions of seemingly undifferentiated ad banners.
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One reason it's taken so long is that people can't see that the oceans are filling up, said Sandra Whitehouse, a marine biologist and senior adviser at the Ocean Conservancy, an environmental group.
And what this means to life in the oceans is potentially disastrous: corals and mollusks have more difficulty making shells, plankton at the base of the food chain become less viable, and whole ecosystems are potentially threatened.
At least one-third of the species that inhabit the world's oceans may remain completely unknown to science.
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