There are only about 4,000 marine-plant species compared with an estimated 250,000 species of terrestrial green plants. Similarly, of the 1.7 million-or-so known animal species, only about one-tenth are from oceans, with most of these living on or close to the bottom in relatively shallow water.
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You don't need oceans. You don't need mountains... You don't have to have all of that stuff.
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When we left Washington and returned to Nashville in 1998, I kept my connections to international oceans issues with the World Wildlife Fund and the Marine Stewardship Council.
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We can think of changes to the oceans locally, but in terms of human health we have to look globally. This is a global connection. As we change ocean properties through climate change, remote consequences are likely to arise? We may not even know what they are yet.
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I think what he will be remembered for most in history is the way he connected with regular people and brought the mystery and beauty of oceans into our personal lives
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I know the Bush administration is talking about going back to the moon and going to Mars. But there are plenty of new things to look for right here, in our rain forests, in our oceans. There are whole worlds that are unknown to us.
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Oil pollution causes a lot of problems in the oceans. And most of it (oil pollution) can be prevented.
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Pirate fishing is a global threat to the oceans and those who depend on them.
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Watching the sunrise and sunset, and the way it illuminated the solar arrays on the service module was just phenomenal. It sparkled like a jewel out there against the blue background of the oceans. A very, very beautiful sight for us
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Seabirds are ideal symbols for ocean conservation,.. Because they live in a variety of habitats-including oceans, islands, estuaries and beaches-they can show visitors how all coastal life is connected and spark new interest in coastal conservation. Long-term conservation success hinges on public understanding and community support.
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It's no secret the level of the oceans is rising, something that's been accelerated by climatic warming
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That's Oceans Digital TV- it's allowing our subscribers to immerse themselves in the type of quality television they want without having to go abroad to get it.
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We are remaining exclusively focused on the oceans. We do not get into social issues, we do not even get into environmental records.
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Come in every time you're in D.C. And teach me about the oceans. They didn't do that when I was a scientist in Washington. It's different now. All of a sudden, they've realized that there's more in this for them.
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Having most of the members of an oceanographic science party on land has never been tried. The approach will provide an opportunity for a much larger number of researchers to explore the oceans.
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Not many hundreds of years ago, man stood on the shores of Europe looking at an endless horizon of oceans thinking that was it. People in America have thought the same thing, and it has played into man's self-centered arrogance that we are it when actually we're discovering that planet formation is as common as dirt on the beach.
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What does it take for Americans to do great things; to go <br/>to the moon, to win wars, to dig canals linking oceans, to <br/>build railroads across a continent? In independent thought <br/>about this question, Neil Armstrong and I concluded that it <br/>takes a coincidence of four conditions, or in Neil's view, <br/>the simultaneous peaking of four of the many cycles of American <br/>life. First, a base of technology must exist from which to do <br/>the thing to be done. Second, a period of national uneasiness <br/>about America's place in the scheme of human activities must <br/>exist. Third, some catalytic event must occur that focuses <br/>the national attention upon the direction to proceed. Finally, <br/>an articulate and wise leader must sense these first three <br/>conditions and put forth with words and action the great thing <br/>to be accomplished. The motivation of young Americans to do what <br/>needs to be done flows from such a coincidence of conditions.. <br/>The Thomas Jeffersons, The Teddy Roosevelts, The John Kennedys <br/>appear. We must begin to create the tools of leadership which <br/>they, and thier young frontiersmen, will require to lead us <br/>onward and upward.
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As the atmosphere started cooling, the things came into their shapes to help form the planet, the hollow space was filled with water, which later became seas and oceans while the steamy blanket round it condensed.
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The oceans store an enormous amount of heat energy, and they act to buffer any rapid climate change. If there is any significant change in the amount of heat stored by the oceans, this would effect global temperatures.
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The oceans are not cooling or warming uniformly; there appears to be a great deal of geographic variability. When people usually speak of global warming, they think of the entire ocean warming up or cooling down. We don't have the accuracy yet to determine the magnitude of the average global trend, but we at least are trying to point out the signs of these trends.
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In the tradition of the Pew Fellows, Dr. Richmond's quarter-century of tireless work to preserve the coral reefs of the Pacific has distinguished him as a pioneer of marine conservation, discovering new solutions for protecting and preserving our oceans worldwide.
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Why do many believers insist on repeatedly pointing to the crimes of 20th century dictators who led officially atheistic societies as some sort of evidence of their god's existence? It makes no sense. If the rivers of blood on Stalin's hands and Mao's hands, for example, are supposed to prove there is a god, then what do the oceans of blood on the hands of several thousand years' worth of religious kings, queens, presidents, popes, priests, generals, Crusadersm jihadists and tribal chiefs prove? It's not, of course, but if bodycount is somehow the measure of a god's likelihood of existence, then believers lose. It is clear that humans are quite capable of killing with or without images of gods bouncing around in their heads. If anything, however, history suggests that the concept of gods makes the idea of massacring your fellow man (and women and children, too, of course) a lot easier to act upon.
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And soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra.
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.. We have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we figure out what it is. It's the opposite to living our lives episodically, where each day is only tangentially connected to the next, where we are ourselves the only constants linking yesterday to tomorrow. There is nothing wrong with that, and I don't want to imply that there is by saying how much this shocked me -- just that it felt so suddenly, painfully right to think that I have tapped into my Long Tale, that I have set my feet on the path I want to walk the rest of my life, and that it is a path of stories and writing and that no matter how many oceans I cross or how transient I feel in any given place, I am still on my Tale's Road, because having tapped it, having found it, the following is inevitable..
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It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died. It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with that thought I could swear I heard Ami's voice. But I am not frightened. I am joyous. Joyous with realization. For I cannot help but think what a lucky person I am. Imagine that in all the eons of time, in all the possible universes of which Dara speaks, of all the stars in the heavens, Ami and I came together for one brief and shining sliver of time. I stop. I think. Supposing in the grand infinity of this universe two particles of life, Ami and me, swirl endlessly like grains of sand in the oceans of the world -- how much of a chance is there for these two particles, these two grains of sand, to collide, to rest briefly together.. At the same moment in time? That is what happened with Ami and me.. This miracle of chance.
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