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.
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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Seaweb is a multimedia public education project designed to raise awareness of the world ocean and the life within it.
"In climate change we talk about a tipping point, but in oceans and ocean life we are far over that tipping point, " he said.
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.
The impacts of ocean acidification on marine life, and ultimately the socio-economic effects, are potentially dramatic.
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.
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?
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.
These microscopic creatures are at the heart of the ocean food chain, and all sea life depends on them.
Securing the role of the ocean as a source of life, of food and of biodiversity, requires effective action at many levels.
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.
Ocean life would die off, while pests and disease would increase, the report says.
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.
Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability sounds the alarm about the health of the ocean, and explains how it influences our everyday life by regulating the climate, providing highly-nutritious food and by sustaining livelihoods and economies.
Only by pushing mankind to its limits, to the bottoms of the ocean and into space, will we make discoveries in science and technology that can be adapted to improve life on Earth.
"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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He gave up a six-figure salary as a marketing consultant and dedicated his life to restoring the world's ocean reef ecosystems.
By day he was guided by the rising and setting sun but also by the ocean herself, the mother of life.
Ocean monitoring improves the management of marine and coastal ecosystems and resources, and protects life and property on coasts and at sea.
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.
In this slice of Tijuana, you could listen to plaintive songs about life on the border and catch a breeze off the Pacific Ocean, while saltwater eats away at the ragged border fence on the shore.
The process is energy-intensive, and releases brine into the surrounding ocean, which has the potential to harm marine life.
Indeed, an ocean, a tide of lost ancestors, a bitter benediction of the waters dividing the old life and the new.
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