... , fertilizers, seas of garbage, sewage disposal and toxic chemicals. The visible effects of these activities in our Oceans are very startling. Oil spills have caused huge damages to the marine environment. Likewise, the Deep-water Horizon BP oil spill, which occurred in 2010, is still present in the Gulf of Mexico. Oil still washes up on the shores of the Gulf and as the temperature climbs the oil in the water and the shore begin ... Extraction". This Dutch teenager invented a device that could remove 20 billion tons of trash from the world's oceans. The device consists of "an anchored n...

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... cargo to the oceans. The following are just a few of the strange items that have washed up on shores: hockey gloves, chest pieces and shin gaurds from a container that spilled 34,000 pieces in 1994; Nike tennis shoes and cross trainers from container spills between 1990 and 2003; 29,000 First Years bathtub toys such as rubber duck, frogs, and turtles, that traveled the world's seas after ... a spill in 1992 (National Geographic) (Bock, Paula). On a summer day in 2000, a small private research vessel, the Alguita, came upon a 10-mile-wide fleet of disposable sacks, about 6 million of the...

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... not planned to recur until 1874, astronomers hoped to obtain data that would help determine the distance of Earth to the Sun. Although this "transit" would be visible throughout the world, the Royal Society wanted to station observers at three widely separated locations: Hudson Bay, the North Cape of Norway, and somewhere in the South Seas. Such an operation would allow readings to be checked against one another (Alexander 742 ... -43). Upon learning that one of the locations would be somewhere in the South Pacific, an area of exceptional political interest, the Royalty contributed four ...

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... significant tsunamis (in this respectively descending order of likelihood). WHO DO THEY AFFECT? Due to the fact that oceans, lakes and seas cover two-thirds of our planet, there is not a landmass in this world that could say it is immune from the possible attack of a raging tsunami. Since every deep ocean floor possesses the same basic make-up as the next, all oceans have potential tsunamis brewing ... in their depths. Accordingly, the inhabitants and the property closest to these ... oceans would, of course be most ... ...

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