"Marine life in the ocean are mistaking plastic for their natural food, " Lamson said.
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No one had tried to determine what the full spectrum of life in the ocean looked like a hundred years or five hundred years in the past.
The men were picked up from a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 380 nautical miles north of Puerto Rico.
From a life-poor patch of ocean in the South Pacific to a life-rich lake in the East African Rift System, clear waters can be found in all different corners of the world.
Mr Varma's answer is brutal: the rich in India have always lived a life quite uncaring of the ocean of poverty around them.
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We started in the Hall of Ocean Life, the one with the giant blue whale suspended from the ceiling.
Often my mother would remind me that if a delicate seashell could survive the violent tumbles of the ocean, then I too could weather the turbulent times in life.
Scientists have found creatures thriving in places that would poison or cook most life on earth--deep inside rock, under the ocean or in hot springs, places that are extremely salty, or acidic, or bathed in radiation or heavy metals.
The Ocean Challenge Badge is designed to help educate children and young people about the vital role the ocean plays in supporting life on Earth.
While fewer species live in the ocean than on land, marine life represents much older evolutionary lineages that are fundamental to our understanding of life on Earth, Appeltans says.
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Statistically, tsunamis in the Mediterranean are more frequent than those in the Indian Ocean and have caused extensive damage and loss of life during centuries.
"Prince Philip said 'You have obviously surfed in the ocean' and I told him I had surfed all my life and used to be a professional surfer, " he said.
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The strength of that pressure may depend in part on the psychological impact of fresh discoveries about the diversity of ocean life.
Even a small increase in ocean acidity, the alarmists claim, can have devastating impact on marine life.
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Its mission is to carry out Martin's experiment on a much grander scale, pouring iron ore into the ocean in an attempt to stimulate plankton growth and assess the wider effects on sea life.
Gem of the Ocean is the latest in Wilson's 10-part cycle about African-American life in the 20th century.
In the absence of light, life in dark waters can also depend on organic substances dead or alive reaching the depths of the ocean.
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