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ocean

[oh-shuhn] / ˈoʊ ʃən /


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"If nature developed a GPS, a particle that can be relied upon to navigate thousands of kilometers across the ocean, then it would be something like this," he said.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

It is this ocean warming that we call El Nino.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

We spend hours a week in parks and at the ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Two people died, and one remains missing in the ocean after a medical transport helicopter flying from Santa Catalina Island to the mainland went down in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, officials said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

I wish for the wind to shift, to pull the fresh ocean air inland, instead of wafting the smell of rotting fish from the barrels down the ramp over me.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Pacific leaders are pushing for the world to stick to a target of limiting global warming to 1.5C, enhance access to climate finance, and give more attention to the impact on oceans.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The turtles are normally found throughout tropical regions of the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans, with large nesting populations in Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026

However, the new results offer an important foundation for future studies investigating how subsurface oceans on distant icy worlds form, evolve, and potentially disappear over time.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Natural-fiber garments also shed microfibers that have been found in oceans and human lung tissue, can persist in the environment and have harmed marine organisms in laboratory studies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Animal fossils repeatedly turned up on opposite sides of oceans that were clearly too wide to swim.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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