Life has been trying to do this since the first protozoa appeared in the primordeal oceans: heck since the first self-replicating chemical compound turned up.

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First, as the oceans absorb more carbon dioxide it will displace oxygen.

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What is the deepest place in the world's oceans, where film director James Cameron made the first solo trip to on March 26, 2012?

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Planet Ocean is by no means the first (or last) movie to share the beauty of our oceans and depict some of the ways that our modern world is ruining natural habitats.

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Today Argo provides the first-ever global-scale, all-weather subsurface observations of the oceans, an unprecedented dataset for researchers studying the temperature, salinity, and circulation of the global oceans and how these change over periods ranging from days to decades.

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The Boeing 747 first flew in 1969, yet it still is the main jet carrying people across oceans.

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Thus it was a remarkable spectacle when, on Monday July 5th, Indonesians across the length and breadth of this huge archipelago of 17, 000 islands, strung between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, queued calmly to cast their votes in the country's first direct election for president (until now, presidents had been chosen by a national assembly).

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Whale sharks - Rhincodon typus- were first discovered in the 1800s and are found throughout the tropical oceans, but relatively little is known about their behaviour, how long they live, their breeding habits, or their migratory routes - or indeed whether they migrate.

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