The ocean is vast and on average about 4,000 metres deep. It contains 1.3 billion cubic kilometres of water – that’s 97% of all the water on the surface of the Earth. [1] Home to over 240,000 known ...

Much of this uncertainty is because the ocean processes that control the fate of the sheet occur on an incredibly small scale ...

The ocean covers over 70% of the planet and produces at least 50% of the planet’s oxygen. For this and many other important reasons, United Nations University expert Dr Jack O’Connor introduces six ...

One global ocean spans 71% of Earth's surface, covering a vast interconnected body of water. Geographically, this ocean is ...

Every year an estimated 11 million tonnes of plastics enter our ocean. 29 million metric tonnes of plastic is expected to enter the ocean every year by 2040 It's estimated that 1.5 million tonnes of ...

Discover interesting facts about where sharks live ... Where they live: In every ocean around the globe. How long they've been around: 450 million years. How big they are: Smaller than a human ...

World Oceans Day is observed on June 8th all across the world. The importance of oceans in our lives is highlighted on World Oceans Day, as is the need to safeguard them from deterioration. The ocean ...

The Magazine "Dive.in" and Neo Mam Studios created an incredible graphic with this and 49 other fascinating facts about the ocean. Some are familiar, some may surprise you, and some make it clear ...

Plankton are a collection of tiny organisms that live at and beneath the surface of lakes, rivers, ponds, and oceans across the planet. They’re named for the Greek word planktos, meaning to ...

The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia is the world’s largest living structure, visible from outer space. Ocean provides more than half of the oxygen we breathe According to scientists, 50 ...