The Commonwealth of Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world"s smallest continent and a number of islands in the Southern, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

澳大利亚联邦位于南半球，包含了位于世界最小的大洋洲的澳大利亚大陆和南部，印度洋和太平洋的一些岛屿。

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Gregory S. Stone is chief scientist for oceans at Conservation International. Brian Skerry's photos of Japan's ocean wilderness appeared in November.

格雷戈里·s·斯通是保护国际海洋类的首席科学家；布莱恩·斯凯瑞关于日本海域荒野的图片发表在十一月刊的《国家地理》上。

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Scientists like Michael Can at the U. S. Geological Suwey who believe oceans once covered much of Mars face a serious challenge from the Global Surveyor studies.

像美国地质勘测局的科学家迈克尔·卡尔，他认为海洋覆盖了火星的大部分地区。他的观点现在也面临着来自全球监测机构研究结果的挑战。

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That was from the movie "The State of the Planet's Oceans" made by Hal and Marilyn Weiner.

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Miz Stone says the National Museum of Natural History asked if this year's festival could pay special attention to the subject of oceans.

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Hundreds of millions of people now use the world's oceans, more than in the past.

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The team has calculated that Alaskan glaciers are responsible for at least 9% of the global sea-level rise during the past century, and Alaska's glaciers raise the level of Earth's oceans by more than one-tenth of a millimetre each year.

BBC: Alaskan glaciers melting faster

Scientists have known for some time that large swathes of the earth's oceans harbor extremely low densities of phytoplankton.

CNN: Topical waters

Globally just 0.6% of the world's oceans have been protected, compared to almost 13% of our planet's land area.

BBC: Cash shortage stretches to sea bed