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“Our fate has always rested in one way or another with the ocean,” Avery said. “It is crucial to our survival on the planet to further our understanding of [...]

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Without technology in hand to stop millions of gallons of oil from spewing from the bottom of the ocean, we are simply gambling with our environment. [...]

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London, Oct 4 (IANS) The oceans are bustling with far greater diversity of life than previously thought, says the first Census of Marine Life -- 10 years in [...]

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What follows are the basic facts, courtesy of our space-faring friends at NASA*. 96.5% of this total is found in our oceans. 1.7% in the polar icecaps, [...]

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"It drives our climate and weather extremes, is the workplace for offshore industries and maritime defense activities and contains a diversity of marine [...]

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Normally we think of metals in our water supply as a bad thing, but when it comes to trace amounts of metals welling-up from the ocean's depths we should [...]

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from multiple turbines means fewer subsea cables to shore, easing interconnections to the grid and reducing the required infrastructure in our oceans. [...]

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"It's unsightly, along our river banks and if it gets swept into our oceans then it stays there forever and ever,” said Chelsea Gwyther, Connecticut River [...]

Thank you for visiting the Conserve Our Ocean Legacy Web site! The COOL campaign has ended, but our work to end overfishing and conserve our oceans [...]

Our Oceans are Turning Into Plastic . . . Are We? A vast swath of the Pacific, twice the size of Texas, is full of a plastic stew that is entering the food [...]

But when plastic reaches our waters, whether it be plastic bags or drifting fish nets, it poses a threat to the animals that depend on the oceans for food. [...]

Seen from space the Earth is covered in a blue mantle. It is a planet on which the continents are dwarfed by the oceans surrounding them and the immensity [...]

21 Jul 2010 Oceanographers and deep-sea explorers Sylvia Earle and Edith Widder travel around the world to study what's happening to our oceans. [...]

29 Jul 2010 I doubt that climate change, whether manmade or natural, has as much to do with our dying oceans as the junk we put into the oceans, [...]

Our lives require healthy oceans for oxygen, food, jobs, medicines and more. We all have a shared responsibility to protect our oceans: to use only what [...]

Despite our access to free, clean drinking water, North Americans still prefer bottled water. The United Nations estimates there are 46000 pieces of plastic in every square mile of ocean and approximately 80% of this plastic debris [...]

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Eighty percent of the plastic in our seas has come from the land where it has either been flushed through drains or blown off landfill sites. Until there is an effective alternative to dumping, the floating plastic in our oceans will [...]

Today, yesterday, tomorrow – water. Okay, so not actually tomorrow, but for this Sustainability Saturday I’m going to continue with yesterday’s Blog Action Day theme of water. But in retrospect, that post seems a little gloomish to me. And I don’t want to be a gloom shroom, so today’s water roundup [...]

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Beautiful ocean.With time and effort,we will save our oceans.Men in power just do not have any respect for mother earth.What will it take for them to wake up and realize it is there for us to enjoy and for them to enjoy their ocean life [...]

July 2010 Newsletter-Our Ocean. June 2010 Newsletter-Our Ocean. Oceans' fish could disappear in 40 years: UN - AFP, May 17, 2010. Statement on the listing of 3 Puget Sound rockfish [...]

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The president's grabby-handed bureaucrats have been empowered through executive order to seize unprecedented control from states and localities over “conservation, economic activity, user conflict and sustainable use of the ocean, our [...]

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We need your help in getting the word out that Prop 23 is disastrous for California and our oceans. Please take the pledge and forward this email to 5 friends, share it on Facebook and post it on Twitter. Tags: ecology, Oceans, Prop23, [...]

Global warming, a terrifying thought to many (except for a few skeptics) is in the forefront once again. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the US government has announced only last September, the global average for the period January to August 2010 is 58 0F (14.5 0C) and that is [...]

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After a decade of joint work involving 2,700 researchers from 80 countries, the world's scientists - as well as the general public - can now access the Census of Marine Life, which provides the first in-depth look at the more than 120,000 diverse species which inhabit our oceans. [...]

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Build wells. Check out charity: water and Water.org to see what is being done to improve conditions in developing countries. Recycle. Less consumption overall may mean less impact upon our environment — including our oceans and rivers. [...]