Almost half of that winds up in landfills, and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans.

An ocean view is much to the customers' taste.

Because of the way light reflects off the organisms, these phytoplankton create colourful patterns at the ocean surface.

By the end of the century, if not sooner, the world's oceans will be bluer and greener thanks to a warming climate, according to a new study.

Her popular 1962 book Silent Spring raised awareness of the dangers of pollution and the harmful effects of chemicals on humans and on the world's lakes and oceans.

If certain kinds begin to disappear from the ocean, Dutkiewicz said, it will change the type of fish that will be able to survive.

In a world that warms up by 3℃, it found that multiple changes to the colour of the oceans would occur.

In the ocean, we fished for top predators such as cod on an industrial scale, while on land, we killed off large predators such as wolves.

It sees the changes of water flow direction in the ocean.

Living just a few blocks from the beach, Natalie can see the ocean and hear the wave from her house.

Ocean colour varies from green to blue, depending on the type and concentration of phytoplankton.

Oceans with more phytoplankton may appear greener.

On October 29, 2012, that ocean turned fierce.

Phytoplankton live at the ocean surface, where they pull carbon dioxide into the ocean while giving off oxygen.

Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a scientist in MIT's center for global change science, built a climate model that projects changes to the oceans throughout the century.

The cause of the changes in ocean colour.

The hotel has the best views of the pacific ocean.

These animals typically live between the surface of the ocean and a depth of about 3, 300 feet—as far as most light can reach.

Warming changes key characteristics of the ocean and can affect phytoplankton growth, since they need not only sunlight and carbon dioxide to grow, but also nutrients.

Whatever colour changes the ocean experiences in the coming decades will probably be too gradual and unnoticeable, but they could mean significant changes.

When entering the house, the customer would see the pacific ocean through the windows, and then the pool through an open stairway leading to the lower level.

When these organisms die, they bury carbon in the deep ocean, an important process that helps to regulate the global climate.

The high cost of steam and the lesser need for speed kept the majority of the world's ocean freight moving by sail until the early years of the 20th century.

When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong.

Around half of ocean heat intake since 1865 has taken place since 1997, researchers report online in Nature Climate Change.

El niño, Spanish for the child, occurs when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm.

Even though pumping from these depths is expensive, it is still cheaper than desalinating (脱盐) the ocean water in the largely coastal state.

Gazing down on the city from the Getty Center, an art museum in the Santa Monica Mountains, one would find the view of the Pacific Ocean blurred by the haze.

Her father had written the note as a joke and had thrown it into the Atlantic Ocean.

like humans, killer whales have colonized a range of different habitats across the globe, occupying every ocean basin on the planet, with an empire that extend from pole to pole.

Marine life may be affected too: El niños can reduce the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich water that supports large fish 35 populations, and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral.

The extensive data sources, combined with computer simulations, created a timeline of ocean temperature changes, including cooling from volcanic outbreaks and warming from fossil fuel emissions.

The note inside the bottle said, Return to 419 Ocean Street and receive a reward of $150 from Richard and Tina pierce, owners of the Beachcomber Motel.

The researchers gathered 150 years of ocean temperature data in order to get a better picture of heat absorption from surface to seabed.

They gathered together temperature readings collected by everything from a 19th century voyage of British naval ships to modern automated ocean probes.

While the top of the ocean is studied, its depths are more difficult to explore.

Earlier this year, British explorer  Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

South Korea, which operates state-of-the-art bases here, is increasing its fishing of krill ( ' , 磷虾), found in abundance in the Southern Ocean, while Russia recently frustrated efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries here.

Efforts to create one of the world's largest ocean sanctuaries failed because of Russia's obstruction.

Way up north in the Canadian Arctic, seabirds are picking up dangerous chemicals in the ocean and delivering them to ponds near where the birds live.

The pollutants in the ponds appear to come from fish that fulmars eat when they’re out on the ocean.

The picture worsens with each round of El Nino, the unusually warm currents in the Pacific Ocean that drive up temperatures and invariably presage (预示) droughts and fires in the rain forest.

The unusual warm currents in the Pacific Ocean

It sits firmly on solid rock at the bottom of the ocean.

The West Antarctic region was once an open ocean

They found fossils of microscopic marine plants which suggest that the region was once open ocean not solid ice.

If such an earthquake happened today, it would be felt from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and would flatten most of the cities in the Mississippi valley.

A global campaign has been launched to create a network of ocean sanctuaries to protect the seas in the region and Greenpeace is calling for an immediate halt to fishing in areas being considered for sanctuary status.

A global campaign has been launched to turn a huge tract of Antarctic seas into ocean sanctuaries, protecting wildlife and banning not just krill fishing, but all fishing.

As the ocean warms, a body of water called the Antarctic Polar Front - an upward movement of nutrient-rich sea that supports a huge abundance of marine life - is being pushed further south. This means that king penguins, which feed on fish and krill in th

But its surface has been cooked and dried by an ocean of carbon dioxide, trapped in the burning death grip of a runaway greenhouse effect.

Earlier this year, British explorer Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.

Frida Bengtsson from Greenpeace's Protect the Antarctic campaign said: \If the krill industry wants to show it’s a responsible player, then it should be voluntarily getting out of any area which is being proposed as an ocean sanctuary, and should instead

Island communities have been among the hardest hit by the threats facing the ocean, said President Tommy Remengesau Jr. in a statement.

Keith Reid, a science manager at CCAMLR, said that the organisation sought \a balance between protection, conservation and sustainable fishing in the Southern Ocean\.

king penguins are the second-largest type of penguin and only breed on specific isolated islands in the Southern Ocean where there is no ice cover and easy access to the sea.

Only a handful of islands in the Southern Ocean are suitable for sustaining large breeding colonies.

We want to lead the way in restoring the health of the ocean for future generations.

We're looking at roughly 80 percent loss of ice cover on the Arctic Ocean in 10 years, roughly 10 years, and 100 percent loss in nearly 20 years.

Rested in the Pacific Ocean, Mauna Kea’s peak rises above the bulk of our planet’s dense atmosphere, where conditions allow telescopes to obtain images of unsurpassed clarity.

Rested in the Pacific Ocean, Mauna Kea's peak rises above the bulk of our planet's dense atmosphere, where conditions allow telescopes to obtain Images of unsurpassed clarity.