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With an average depth of the oceans of 4,000 meters, in fact, the high seas covers and provides nearly 90 percent of the habitat for life on this Earth.
Even in the oceans, we are creating a lot of light that we could actually ban also for animal life to have a much greater well-being.
It was just the right distance from its star to contain huge oceans of liquid water.
And deep beneath those oceans, at cracks in the Earth's crust, you've got heat seeping up from inside the Earth, and you've got a great diversity of elements.
So here's a note to self: The cracks have started to show in our constructed world, and oceans will continue to surge through the cracks, and oil and blood, rivers of it.
And simply put: if penguins are dying, it means our oceans are dying.
And we ultimately will be affected, because, as Sylvia Earle says, "The oceans are our life-support system."
Science tells us that if you set these places aside, nature will come back and we can keep the oceans healthy.
But like Mather, we should focus on the technology of our time, all of this new, amazing, digital infrastructure can be built to engage people with the oceans.
Now, as we continue to tinker with the oceans, more and more reports are predicting that the kinds of seas that we're creating will be conducive to low-energy type of animals, like jellyfish and bacteria.
And a sea that's just filled and teeming with jellyfish isn't very good for all the other creatures that live in the oceans, that is, unless you eat jellyfish.
Something like a billion people depend on fish, the quantity of fish in the oceans.
In fact, what's being absorbed is something like 25 percent of our emissions, which then leads to acidification or lower alkalinity in oceans.
There is an area that is the oceans, coral reefs.
Never in my life ... I knew there were Portuguese men o' war, all kinds of moon jellies, all kinds of things, but the box jellyfish from the southern oceans is not supposed to be in these waters.
They found that there was no genetic differentiation between any of the world's oceans of basking sharks: even though they're found throughout the world, you couldn't tell the difference, genetically, from one from the Pacific, Atlantic, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa.
When you see the planet looking like a blue-green marble the way it does in this picture, you're seeing it because the sunlight is reflecting off of it, and that's why you can see the oceans, the clouds, the land.
The oceans cover some 70 percent of our planet.
And the oceans are hugely productive, as you can see by the satellite image of photosynthesis, the production of new life.
In fact, the oceans produce half of the new life every day on Earth as well as about half the oxygen that we breathe.
And so 10 years ago, an international program began called the Census of Marine Life, which set out to try and improve our understanding of life in the global oceans.
There are actually four to five new species described everyday for the oceans.
Our expectations of what the oceans can produce is something that we don't really appreciate because we haven't seen it in our lifetimes.
Now most of us, and I would say me included, think that human exploitation of the oceans really only became very serious in the last 50 to, perhaps, 100 years or so.
And so anything from restaurant menus to monastery records to ships' logs to see what the oceans looked like.
The oceans have lost a lot of their productivity and we're responsible for it.
And so one of the tools that we can use to sample the oceans is acoustics, or sound waves.
We can also use satellite tags to track animals as they move through the oceans.
And so what you can do with that is to plot the distribution of species and where they occur in the oceans.
And the oceans themselves are thought potentially to contain as many as a billion different types.
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