Take the oceans, about which we know much less than the dark side of the moon.
When the oceans ran out of iron, the oxygen was free to accumulate in the air.
It is the prospect of irretrievable damage to the atmosphere, to the oceans, to earth itself.
Actress Kristen Bell purposed satirical Public Service Announcements to turn attention to the oceans.
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Two destinations are being designed for those with more serious interest in the oceans.
Remember the rise of the oceans, which began to slow, the planet would began to heal.
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Reducing carbon dioxide deposition is the long-term key to stabilizing the pH of the oceans.
So what can we do to save the oceans, and in doing so, save ourselves?
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Imad Mugniyah was about to defy the oceans that security officials naively assumed held him back.
And so, 189 years ago, Americans of Greek origin crossed the oceans and fought for Greek independence.
Suppose the oceans warm up a bit, as they regularly do as part of natural climate cycles.
Many scientists are understandably nervous about tinkering on a grand scale with the atmosphere and the oceans.
Variations in the sogginess of the soil or the saltiness of the oceans will modify this signal.
Disaster risk reduction on the oceans and in coastal zones is another main theme of the meeting.
Another would attempt to whiten clouds over the oceans by wafting tiny salt particles up into them.
Human actions have resulted in warming and acidification of the oceans and are now causing increasing hypoxia.
The Oceans 5 founders wanted to bring in a variety of partners whether or not they had marine expertise.
One example is a tuna buoy that floats out around the oceans of the world, monitoring fish populations.
The massive over-fishing of the oceans has already led to the near-disappearance of some of the world's fish.
" It should serve as a reminder, Morishige said, that "the land and the oceans are incredibly connected.
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Of the main taxonomic groups (phyla), almost all are found in the oceans and half are exclusively marine.
Mid-continent warming will be greater than over the oceans, and there will be greater warming at higher latitudes.
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The oceans take up 40 percent of all carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, so they are pretty significant.
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From the oceans, we take without mercy, decimating entire species of fish to extinction or the brink of.
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"However, my calculations show the oceans may evaporate much earlier, " said Professor Kasting.
The results will "help us understand how life in the oceans is changing", said project leader, Dr Richard Kirby.
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Right now there are only 1, 500 data-sensing buoys floating on all the oceans.
For much of the oceans we have little or no information on trends.
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And that, it seems, is how bony fish came to dominate the oceans.
There is more heat stored in the top four metres of the oceans than in all the Earth's atmosphere.
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