The urge to avoid plastic is understandable, given reports of toxic toys and baby bottles, seabirds choking on bottle caps and vast patches of ocean swirling with everlasting synthetic debris.
Scientists have found tantalizing evidence of a liquid water ocean swirling under the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa, Nasa announced on Monday, with new evidence of water plumes bursting out into space.
The briny surface waters of the bay churn so chaotically that a slight shift in the place or time an oil drop, a buoy — or even a person — falls in can dictate whether it is swept out to the open ocean or swirls near the shore.
The only subjects on which Coupland and I are in agreement are the horror of the "trash vortex" in the Pacific ocean, a swirling mound of plastics and other manmade mess twice the size of Texas, and his distaste for the term "passing" as a euphemism for death.
Turner and the Sea Swirling and swelling, the great untamed ocean has never had a more acute portraitist than JMW Turner.
The planet would appear as a tiny speck, with neither blue ocean nor swirling, white cloud visible.
The Arctic ice cap helps to cool sea and air temperatures, by reflecting much of the sun's radiation back into space, and acting as a global cooler when winds and ocean currents swirl over and under it.
The ocean's swirling currents have pushed the piles of debris, accumulated detritus of sea vessels and decades of under-the-radar ocean dumping, together in loose configurations just below the water's surface.
If it were mapped out, it might have an appearance similar to global weather maps where you see clouds, rain patterns, and ocean currents swirling around the globe.
The soundtrack was presented in Dolby Digital 4.1, with one reviewer saying that the "stereo separation is great with ocean waves swirling around you, the bubbles going by during the scuba scenes, and Hoagie's airplane flying around behind you".
