Today, US military weather satellites return daily data on the state of the sea-ice at both poles, but the NSIDC team is keen to retrieve as much information as possible from the early, experimental Nasa Earth-observers.
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Kazakhstan has extended a state of emergency in the Caspian Sea town of Zhanaozen, where oil workers have been protesting for months.
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Lugar and other proponents of the Law of the Sea Treaty (including the Navy, State Department and environmentalists who will also be represented at the Brookings meeting) contend that a 1994 pact called "the Agreement" fixed what President Reagan thought ailed the original accord.
And the government insists that the state of the economy will inevitably be felt on the sea bed, like everywhere else.
And in February 2009 it was discovered that scientists had previously been underestimating the re-growth of Arctic sea ice by an area larger than the state of California (twice as large as New Zealand).
"I'm excited to report that, using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14, 000 feet below the surface, and we're making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocean floor, " the billionaire investor and entrepreneur wrote.
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Dillingham is in the southwestern part of the state, as the locals say, where the tundra meets the sea.
During the next two centuries Miletus was far more active in colonization than any other city-state in the Greek world, founding a total of thirty cities around the Black Sea and its approaches in the Hellespont and the Sea of Marmara.
When talking about Palestine, the speaker is referring to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River that includes the Jewish state of Israel and the Palestinian lands of the West Bank and Gaza.
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But by the Berkeley team's analysis, the global temperature correlates more closely with the state of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) index - a measure of sea surface temperature in the north Atlantic.
"When we topped the bridge and looked down and saw the sea of blue and the sheriff's deputies and Alabama state troopers on the other side of that bridge, then we immediately knew that there was a problem, " recalls Jimmie Wallace, one of the marchers.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were in Egypt on Tuesday to meet with Arab leaders at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik.
Pundits have been predicting that the North Sea would run out of oil ever since Tony Benn, the then secretary of state for energy, turned on the tap in 1975.
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There is imprecision of just what the winds and the sea state will do with this slick as it moves closer to land.
Moscow (CNN) -- Russia's security service has foiled a plot to attack the 2014 Winter Olympics in the Black Sea city of Sochi, state media reported Thursday.
Local resident U Than Htun said the boat was crossing the mouth of the Sittwe River on its way to Sittwe, the state capital some 27km (17 miles) away by sea, when it sank.
Portland State funded the study along with Oregon Sea Grant, a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Newspapers report on talks between Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Phnom Penh, as tension over the South China Sea disputes continues.
Moscow (CNN) -- French-born actor Gerard Depardieu arrived in the Black Sea resort of Sochi Saturday, according to Russian state media, a day after he announced that he had accepted Russian citizenship.
As the elected District Attorney for the Delta County where Till was killed, Chiles faces questions from her fellow prosecutors at their state meeting, where she's the only black woman in a sea of white faces.
Malaysia's Sabah state shares a sea border with the southern Philippines, which is home to a number of Islamic militant and kidnap-for ransom groups.
Austin, essentially, reaps the benefits of being a deep blue, Democratic island in a red-state sea.
Most secretaries of state seem at sea when they are not overseas: Mr Baker once tried to explain the Gulf war by saying limply that, well, it did mean jobs.
The loneliness was very much like sea glass, if sea glass could be a state of mind.
For I had traveled to the Arya Vaidya clinic it's in the state of Tamil Nadu, at the southern tip of the subcontinent, where the Bay of Bengal meets the Arabian Sea on a kind of medical pilgrimage.
In this case, the SG said, the state of Connecticut may well have a claim on behalf of citizens who might be harmed by rising sea levels and all other manner of global-warming ills.
On Friday morning, Reagan's body will be taken through Washington to the National Cathedral for funeral services expected to be attended by numerous heads of state, some of whom will be in the country for the G-8 Economic Summit earlier in the week on Sea Island, Georgia.
The 120ft state-of-the-art boat, unveiled by the Queen earlier this month, left Dartmouth three days ago for sea trials.
Since falling out with Eritrea and the port-state of Djibouti, Ethiopia, the region's landlocked superpower, has hit on Berbera as its easiest access to the sea.
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