The ocean has become 30% more acidic since the start of The Industrial Revolution in the 18th century and is predicted to be 150% more acidic by the end of this century, according to a UNESCO report published last year.
Dr Tomber said that it has always been presumed that the flow of the trade between Rome and India lasted between the 1st Century BC through to the end of the 1st Century AD, but that there is growing evidence that this trade continued much longer, into the 6th and early 7th Century - although not necessarily continually.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) Adam Scott finished the job this time, and put an end to more than a half-century of Australian misery at the Masters.
It is gratifying that, as the Philips set reaches those masters active toward the end of this century, some lessons of the past do seem to have been learned.
The golden domes at the end of this street belong to St Sophia's Cathedral, the 11th-century Orthodox gem.
From now until the end of time (or at least the end of this century), the media will compare tech company CEOs to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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If that scenario pans out, it will mean an end to ways of doing business that date back to the early part of this century, when Japanese companies were grouped as zaibatsu (the precursors of today's keiretsu) and backed by the government.
And he continues to focus on -- as he talked about during the campaign, that the decade of squeeze that the middle class experienced, even as the economy was growing, prior to the recession -- while incomes were growing on the upper end in the first decade of this century, middle class incomes were stagnating, and in some cases, shrinking.
The "high end" of IPCC projections would imply a rise in global temperatures in the upper portion of its projected range of between 1.4 and 5.8C between 1990 and the end of this century, though the exact figure depends on how climatic systems respond to elevated CO2 as well as on how society responds.
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