The first pictures of Earth taken from space showed a solid ball covered by brown and green landmasses and blue-green oceans.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

And,he says the subject of oceans interests him especially because he has been scuba diving since he was a child.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

For many years, people had dreamed of building a canal across Central America to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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Scientists hope this vehicle could permit them to one day explore the icy oceans on Jupiter's moon Europa.

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The researchers say the coral trade is removing about one million five hundred thousand live stony corals from the oceans each year.

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The movie tells about the effects of overfishing on local economies and on the health of the oceans.

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He and his team studied tree mass, dead wood and soil carbon in twenty-five mangrove ecosystems in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

VOA: special.2011.05.10

Today,we tell about how people learned an important piece of information necessary for safely sailing on the oceans.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

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

VOA: special.2009.03.25

The program pays for water research at universities that border either the oceans or the Great Lakes.

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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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And he proposed building a canal in central America to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

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By eighteen fifteen, five thousand chronometers were in use on ships sailing the world's oceans.

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He said the oceans were more than just low places that had filled with water.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

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

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Still,there is one more important piece of nformation necessary for safely sailing the oceans.

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Many movies were about the state of the world's oceans and sea life.

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They seem to disappear from cool waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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The melting will also cause oceans and seas around the world to rise.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

But tornadoes cover a much smaller area than hurricanes, which form over oceans.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

The people had elected Polk because they shared his belief that the United States should extend from sea to sea -- from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

You will strike a hornets' nest which extends from mountains to oceans.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

This mixing is a product of the oceans' density and buoyancy.

VOA: special.2011.06.22

But you should not use sand from the coasts of oceans.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Most of the planet's evaporation and precipitation take place over oceans.

VOA: special.2011.06.22

Not all movies at the festival were about oceans.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf So we must keep apart, You there,I here, With just the door ajar That oceans are,And prayer, And that pale sustenance,Despair!

VOA: special.2010.07.18

"I came back from that really shaken up. I started to think about how the oceans are having a hard time.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

will inspire people who enjoy summer activities on beaches around the world to stop,think and take action to save those oceans.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04