These blooms indicate proliferation of phytoplankton that is fundamental to ocean life and climate regulation.
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Wipe out or even diminish ocean life and our very ability to breath is jeopardized.
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Ocean life would die off, while pests and disease would increase, the report says.
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We started in the Hall of Ocean Life, the one with the giant blue whale suspended from the ceiling.
The strength of that pressure may depend in part on the psychological impact of fresh discoveries about the diversity of ocean life.
"In climate change we talk about a tipping point, but in oceans and ocean life we are far over that tipping point, " he said.
The bycatch, unwanted fish and other ocean life thrown back into the sea, can amount to as much as 90% of a trawl's total catch.
Ocean life represents older evolutionary lineages then life found on land.
Shark fin is a particularly sorry example of the wanton decimation of ocean life feeding more indulgent tastes (see also bluefin tuna) as well as for more basic diets.
It also demonstrates the many benefits the ocean provides us, discusses the negatives impacts we unfortunately have on the ocean and explains how good management can help protect and conserve the ocean and ocean life.
Navigating through the CD-Rom, a child can explore five different branches of Antarctic research: ocean life, glaciers, astronomy, albatrosses and a strange phenomenon called whistlers, which are faint echoes of Northern Hemisphere thunderstorms.
Seaweb is a multimedia public education project designed to raise awareness of the world ocean and the life within it.
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.
The impacts of ocean acidification on marine life, and ultimately the socio-economic effects, are potentially dramatic.
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.
"Marine life in the ocean are mistaking plastic for their natural food, " Lamson said.
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Securing the role of the ocean as a source of life, of food and of biodiversity, requires effective action at many levels.
Even with just a snorkel instead of a full diving apparatus, the clarity of the ocean and the range of life within it is staggering.
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.
There might be life in that lonesome ocean, but there certainly wouldn't be baseball.
From what I have learned about Ben Linden, his entire life revolved around the ocean.
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By day he was guided by the rising and setting sun but also by the ocean herself, the mother of life.
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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The ocean is a complex web of marine life, with many species being driven to extinction year after year.
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These microscopic creatures are at the heart of the ocean food chain, and all sea life depends on them.
The men were picked up from a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 380 nautical miles north of Puerto Rico.
Mr Varma's answer is brutal: the rich in India have always lived a life quite uncaring of the ocean of poverty around them.
Would we care more if we could see the higher concentrations of carbon dioxide being absorbed into our oceans, making seawater more acidic, endangering coral reefs and marine life and threatening to fundamentally disrupt ocean ecosystems and food webs?
The process is energy-intensive, and releases brine into the surrounding ocean, which has the potential to harm marine life.
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