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The World Ocean Conference 2009 (WOC) was an international conference to develop a common understanding and firm commitment to address the adverse impact of climate change on the state of the world's oceans, and increase understanding on the role of the oceans as ‘climate moderator’. This conference includes diplomats and heads of state ...
The 2009 southeast Queensland oil spill occurred off the coast of south-east Queensland, Australia, in which 230 tonnes of fuel oil, 30 tonnes of other fuel and 31 shipping containers (620 tonnes) of ammonium nitrate spilled into the Coral Sea, north of Moreton Bay during Cyclone Hamish after unsecured cargo on the container ship, MV Pacific Adventurer damaged other cargo, causing the spillage.
Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim confirms that debris discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, near Fernando de Noronha, is the wreckage of Air France Flight 447.; General Motors sells its Hummer brand to the Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company.
A 7.9-magnitude earthquake occurs and the Hunga Tonga submarine volcano erupts in the Pacific Ocean near Tongatapu, Tonga.; North Korea detains two American Current TV journalists near its border with China.
The United States Air Force test fires an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from the coast of California to a point in the Pacific Ocean about 4,200 miles (6,750 km) away. (AP via KFMB) Two passenger trains collide in Chenzhou, Hunan in central China, leaving at least three people dead and 60 injured.
Four additional bodies are discovered in the Atlantic Ocean. Bolivia's government seeks two Irish passport-holders who are allegedly connected to the attempted assassination of President Evo Morales in April. A seven-day gay pride festival is held for the first time in Shanghai, China.
Debris and bodies from Yemenia Flight 626, which crashed off the Comoros in the Indian Ocean, wash up on Mafia Island, Tanzania. Indonesian presidential election, 2009. Indonesians go to the polls for the first round of the presidential election. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is projected to win a second term. (Jakarta Post)
The season officially started on Friday, May 15, 2009, in the East Pacific Ocean, and on Monday, June 1, 2009, in the Central Pacific; they both ended on Monday, November 30, 2009. These dates conventionally delimit the period of each year when most tropical cyclones form in the Eastern and Central Pacific basins. However, the formation of ...