About 35 percent of the heat taken in by the oceans during the industrial era now resides at a depth of more than 700 meters, the researchers found.

That's the conclusion of a new study that finds that Earth's oceans now 26 absorb heat at twice the rate they did 18 years ago.

And it goes some way towards explaining why books about swimming, in which people tackle icy lakes, and overcome oceans while reflecting on their lives have recently become so popular.

As a kid, I thrilled to tales of adventure and Isaac Asimov's juvenile science fiction novel Lucky Starr and The Oceans of Venus.

They hypothesize that language diversity must be about history cultural differences, mountains or oceans dividing populations.

Thus, our picture of Venus at around the time life was getting started on Earth is one of warm oceans, probably rich with organic molecules, splashing around rocky shores and volcanic vents.

Almost half of that winds up in landfills, and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans.

By the end of the century, if not sooner, the world's oceans will be bluer and greener thanks to a warming climate, according to a new study.

Her popular 1962 book Silent Spring raised awareness of the dangers of pollution and the harmful effects of chemicals on humans and on the world's lakes and oceans.

In a world that warms up by 3℃, it found that multiple changes to the colour of the oceans would occur.

Oceans with more phytoplankton may appear greener.

Stephanie Dutkiewicz, a scientist in MIT's center for global change science, built a climate model that projects changes to the oceans throughout the century.

Social psychologists have amassed oceans of research into what they call the "above average effect", or "illusory superiority".