What are the top facts about the ocean? While much is known about the ocean, a large part of it remains unknown. Here are fun facts about it for people of all ages.
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 ...
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 ...
One global ocean spans 71% of Earth's surface, covering a vast interconnected body of water. Geographically, this ocean is ...
NGM MAPS. Source: “spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world’s ocean,” Ben S. Halpern and others, Nature Communications; UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected ...
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 ...
Carbon, a building block of life, is constantly moving through different environmental compartments such as biota, the atmosphere, the ocean, soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global ...
Climate change warms the ocean, causing knock-on effects such as thermal expansion - which leads to a rise in sea level - and changes in ocean currents. The melting of ice both on land and in the sea ...
Our oceans, which cover more than 70% of the Earth’s surface, remain an enigmatic and vital component of our planet’s ecosystem. Oceanxplorers, a new documentary series from National ...