The IOC supports the JCOMM-OPS office in Toulouse which coordinates the deployment of the over 3400 Argo floats throughout the world oceans and 1250 surface drifters.
The United States, separated from much of the world by two oceans and bordered by allies, is, by dint of geography, among the best-protected countries on earth.
An estimated 7 million tons of rubbish arrives in the world's oceans each and every year.
They are intended to help fill the large gaps in meteorological knowledge that exist over the world's oceans, and which blight the work of weathermen.
It remains defective as the treaty has yet to be amended and its central feature remains - the establishment of a supranational agency to govern three quarters of the world's surface and the oceans and airspace above them.
It features a vibrant "blue world" - the oceans and coasts that are so crucial for human well-being and for a smoothly functioning global economy.
And public concern over the world's oceans will put governments under moral pressure.
With the oil continuing to leak and as we prepare to celebrate World Oceans Day, ask yourself, what will be your solution?
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This important book shows how scientists and governments can better protect the world's oceans.
The researchers say the difference between the lower short-term estimate and the more consistent long-term picture can be explained by the fact that the heat from the last decade has been absorbed into and is being stored by the world's oceans.
The Unep assessment said the concentration of mercury in the top 100m of the world's oceans had doubled over the past century, and estimated that 260 tonnes of the toxic metal had made their way from soil into rivers and lakes.
The Unep assessment says that the concentration of mercury in the top 100m of the world's oceans has doubled over the past century, and estimates that 260 tonnes of the toxic metal have made their way from soil into rivers and lakes.
John McCosker, chairman of aquatic biology at the California Academy of Sciences, estimates that 90% of the sharks that once inhabited the world's oceans have now disappeared, due to overfishing and shark finning a practice in which sharks are captured and their fins are sliced off for use in shark-fin soup.
The world's oceans were at their hottest in recorded history, and Katrina was rapidly transformed into a raging demon.
Climate scientists have predicted that a warming world will bring increased temperatures, unpredictable precipitation, warming oceans, and more water in the atmosphere all of which drive extreme weather.
Rather, they reflect a strategic imperative not unlike that which led Britain's Royal Navy and, subsequently, the United States Navy, to assume responsibility for, and amass the means to exercise control over the world's oceans.
It contains sweeping environmental obligations that make those entailed in the Kyoto accords pale by comparison - especially insofar as the Law of the Sea Tribunal has established that it believes its jurisdiction extends to activities on land and in the air if they might affect the world's oceans.
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These innovative propulsion and energy systems will help customers explore portions of the world's oceans in conditions that previously were too challenging or costly to operate.
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And some of them do strike our planet, though they tend to be small when they do and strike unpopulated areas on land or plunge into the world's oceans.
And some of them do strike the Earth, though they tend to be small when they do and strike unpopulated areas on land or plunge into the world's oceans.
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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.
Ronald Reagan objected to LOST's creation of a supranational agency to govern the world's oceans at the expense of U.S. sovereignty and America's capacity to utilize and assure freedom of the seas .
The exact value of these resources is impossible to calculate reliably, but a leading UN official described the scale of mineral deposits in the world's oceans as "staggering" with "several hundred years' worth of cobalt and nickel".
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President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush support the treaty, as does an oddly aligned group including the Pentagon, Sierra Club, oil companies, shipping companies and environmentalists, who favor the part of the treaty designed to help protect the world's oceans.
The British wrote furiously to each other, across London and across the oceans, as they tried to keep up with the job of running the world.
Scientists are enlisting sailors and fishermen to help with what they hope will be the world's biggest study of plankton in the oceans.
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