Greek cities and villages are a sea and an ocean away from Latin America.
Nexus is believed to have been formed three years ago as shipping companies grew more concerned about the rise in pirate attacks in the Red Sea and Arabian Ocean waters, especially off of Somalia and Yemen.
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This fact-filled Guide explores the ocean from the coastal zones to the frozen poles, the deep sea to the open ocean.
Excess carbon dioxide is accelerating global warming, sea level rise, ocean acidification and overall climate change.
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"A more general approach has focused on Combined Task Force 150 (CTF 150), a coalition naval task force covering the Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, " the report states.
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If the sinking motion at high latitudes were completely stopped, by covering that part of the ocean by sea ice for instance, there would still be a Gulf Stream to the south, and maybe an even more powerful one as the wind field would probably then become stronger.
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They did this through measurements of magnesium content in the shells of microscopic sea surface animals found in ocean sediment.
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For example, people playing next to the ocean can collect sea-dwelling creatures while those living in a snowy climate can get ice-creatures.
There's also more freshwater coming from sea ice in the Arctic Ocean that's been rapidly melting, and there's yet more freshwater coming from melting glaciers.
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Science knows very little about sea turtles in the open ocean.
The same boats also compete to bring tourists out to the famous natural stone arch where the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Cortez meet.
And because of that, Rio de Janeiro thinks that its newfound Petrobras oil wealth can one day make their Atlantic Ocean the North Sea of Norway.
The satellite built in collaboration with France will carry two climate tools developed for analysing ocean current and sea surface heights by the French space agency CNES, reports say.
This Ocean forecasting system could generate crucial forecast information, such as ocean circulation, sea surface temperature, wave height, to serve the needs of a variety of human activities related to marine hazards mitigation, oil and gas exploration, fisheries, navigation, marine parks management and coastal recreational activities.
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The key was not to try to dig a Suez-type of canal, a great sea-level trench from ocean to ocean, but to create a lock-and-lake canal, where the ships are lifted up by a series of locks to a man-made lake, and then they sail across that lake, and then they are set back down on the other side by another series of locks.
The buoys, which measure movement on the surface, are linked to sensors, placed on the ocean floor to detect sea activity.
As the ice thins, more solar radiation can enter the ocean and warm the sea water, which will cause icecaps to melt more quickly.
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For example, Murmansk to China's Ningbo port near Shanghai is 13, 000 km via the NSR, compared with 22, 000 km via the Mediterranean Sea, Suez Canal, Indian Ocean and Strait of Malacca.
Added to the general atmospheric warming in the region, the researchers also describe an amplification process whereby reduced snow cover on the surrounding tundra and less sea-ice in the Arctic Ocean push up temperatures still further.
All of the conflicts in this tinderbox, which controls shipping lanes from the Indian Ocean into the Red Sea, can potentially give rise to regional, and indeed global conflagrations between competing regional actors and global powers.
Under the UN's Convention on the Law of the Sea, mining rights on the ocean floor are controlled by a little-known body, the International Seabed Authority, which since 2001 has issued 13 licences - with another six in prospect.
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The record office said the Raymond Frostick Map Collection included maps where the North Sea is described as the German Ocean - a term often used until World War I - and King's Lynn was called three different names - Linn, Lyn and Lin.
Following the devastating tsunami of 26 December 2004 in the Indian Ocean, the IOC Member States requested that similar warning systems be developed for the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and adjacent regions as well as the northeast Atlantic, the Mediterranean and connected seas.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) questions from peers range across the record-low sea ice extent in the Arctic Ocean during the past year and the likely future of oil prices , before peers continue the marathon committee stage consideration of the Growth and Infrastructure Bill.
Influenced by the writings of Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein (historians who helped establish a tradition of global comparative history), large numbers of Japanese intellectuals are beginning to realise that a global economic system existed in the areas around the Indian Ocean, the Arabic Sea, the South China Sea, and the East China Sea long before the westernisation of the world.
Princess Honorata, a blond beauty, lives in a sea kingdom with her father, King Ocean.
The three joined the ThinkQuest Website design contest with a web site entry entitled "Ocean AdVENTure: From Deep Sea to Deep Space".
The National Snow and Ice Data Center reported in early March that 2011 has tied with 2006 for the record low sea-ice coverage in the Arctic Ocean (in the satellite record).
Leaving popular Whitehaven Beach, paddle towards Peter Bay, 19km north on Whitsunday Island, where you may see a sea eagle gracefully plucking dinner from the ocean and perhaps a humpback whale breaching the surface.
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