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Marginal seas as defined by the International Hydrographic Organization [1] This is a list of seas of the World Ocean, including marginal seas, areas of water, various gulfs, bights, bays, and straits. [2] In many cases it is a matter of tradition for a body of water to be named a sea or a bay, etc., therefore all these types are listed here.
The 3rd edition, currently in force, of the International Hydrographic Organization's (IHO) Limits of Oceans and Seas defines the limits of the North Pacific Ocean (excluding the seas it contains) as follows: [9] On the Southwest. The Northeastern limit of the East Indian Archipelago from the Equator to Luzon Island. On the West and Northwest.
The system covers coastal and continental shelf waters of the world, and does not include deep ocean waters. The MEOW system integrated the biogeographic regionalization systems in use at national or continental scale, like Australia's Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia and the Nature Conservancy’s system in the ...
The ocean's ailments are approaching a boiling point. Coral is bleaching, kelp is disappearing, surface water temperature has hit hot-tub levels. The ocean's ailments are approaching a boiling point.
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Marine life, sea life or ocean life is the collective ecological communities that encompass all aquatic animals, plants, algae, fungi, protists, single-celled microorganisms and associated viruses living in the saline water of marine habitats, either the sea water of marginal seas and oceans, or the brackish water of coastal wetlands, lagoons ...
Environmental groups said the agreement was a crucial part of efforts to meet a goal enshrined in last year's global biodiversity accord to protect at least 30% of the world's land and seas by ...
Earth is the only known planet with seas of liquid water on its surface, [3]: 22 although Mars possesses ice caps and similar planets in other solar systems may have oceans. [11] Earth's 1,335,000,000 cubic kilometers (320,000,000 cu mi) of sea contain about 97.2 percent of its known water [12] [c] and covers approximately 71 percent of its ...