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The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.

Sylvia Earle

Just as we have the power to harm the ocean, we have the power to put in place policies and modify our own behavior in ways that would be an insurance policy for the future of the sea, for the creatures there, and for us, protecting special critical areas in the ocean.
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Behaviour Harm Have Just Modify Ocean Place Policy Power Put Way
There’s no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here.
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The best scientists and explorers have the attributes of kids! They ask question and have a sense of wonder.
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Ask Attribute Best Explore Have Kid Question Scientist Sense Wonder
Any astronaut can tell you you’ve got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
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I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.
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Did Irresistible Lure Unknown
It’s a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.
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Capability Commensurate Deal Fact Life Long Move Oil Place Provision Shipments Size Spill
My first encounter with the ocean was on the Jersey Shore when I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
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Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.
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Change Consequences Deepwater For Gusher Horizon Human Oil Over Place Responsible Spills Time Without
There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.
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It’s mainly the high-end luxury market now that drives much of the fishing in the sea. It’s not feeding the starving millions. It’s feeding a luxury market.
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Drive Feel Fish High Luxury Mainly Market Million Much Sea Starve
Protecting vital sources of renewal – unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens – will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.
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All Deep Garden Healthy Hope Protect Provide Reef Renewal Sea Source Unscathed Us Vital
Nearly all of the major kinds of life, divisions of life, phyla of animals, occur in the sea. Only about half of them can make it to land or freshwater.
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Animal Divison Freshwater Half Land Life Major Make Nearly Occur Only Sea
Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.
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On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.
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You don’t stand around arguing about who’s responsible, or who’s going to pay.
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I personally have stopped eating seafood.
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Eat Have Personally Seafood Stop

The Arctic is an ocean. The southern pole is a continent surrounded by ocean. The North Pole is an ocean, or northern waters. It’s an ocean surrounded by land, basically.

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