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    The Oceans Act of 2000 established the United States Commission on Ocean Policy, a working group tasked with the development of what would be known as...
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    gathering, James Watkins) was created by an act of the 106th United States Congress known as the Oceans Act of 2000. The commission's mandate was to establish...
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    The Oceans Act (French: Loi sur les océans) is a law enacted by the Parliament of Canada, and addresses Canada's self-definition of its territorial waters...
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    studies the history of the oceans in the geologic past. An oceanographer is a person who studies many matters concerned with oceans, including marine geology...
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    The borders of the oceans are the limits of Earth's oceanic waters. The definition and number of oceans can vary depending on the adopted criteria. The...
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    Sanctuaries Act of 1972 (MPRSA) or Ocean Dumping Act is one of several key environmental laws passed by the US Congress in 1972. The Act has two essential...
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  • report, is entitled Ocean Action Agenda: Supporting Regional Ocean Economies and Ecosystems. Pursuant to the Oceans Act of 2000, President George W....
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    James D. Watkins (category Recipients of the Legion of Merit)
    ocean policy reform. When the Oceans Act of 2000 was passed, President George W. Bush established the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, and appointed Watkins...
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    a typeface different from the other world oceans; instead, it shows the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans extending to Antarctica on both its print...
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    interactions between the oceans and the atmosphere Oceans Act of 2000 – US law to establish policy on the oceans United States Commission on Ocean Policy – A US...
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  •  464 August 7, 2000: Oceans Act of 2000, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 106–256 (text) (PDF), 114 Stat. 644 September 22, 2000: Religious Land...
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    as a narrower continental shelf. In terms of geology, the Indian Ocean is the youngest of the major oceans, with active spreading ridges and features...
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  • Oceans: Record review of Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans". Melody Maker: 64. Clarke, Steve (19 January 1974). "YES: "Tales from Topographic Oceans"...
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    And in that way, as our tagline was in the early days, 'Open the oceans for all of humanity.'" The company's first submersible was Antipodes, a used...
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    There are many effects of climate change on oceans. One of the main ones is an increase in ocean temperatures. More frequent marine heatwaves are linked...
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    Republic of Yugoslavia. November 15 – Bihar was divided into two parts due to Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000, and Jharkhand, the 28th state of India was...
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  • discovery of underground oceans in Saturn's moon Titan and Jupiter's moon Europa. This field remains speculative until further missions reach the oceans beneath...
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    then referred it Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs on October 20, 2000. Ten days later, it was brought up on motion to suspend...
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    law's regulatory mechanisms. The Pew Oceans Commission and the US commission on Oceans Policy prompted many of the amendments found within the 2006 reauthorization...
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  • The Oceans Act was also signed into law by President Clinton in 2000, establishing an Oceans Commission to review and update policies related to ocean and...
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    referred to as trade air masses. All tropical oceans except the northern Indian Ocean have extensive areas of trade winds. Clouds which form above regions...
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    Pacific Ocean, lost at sea in 1939. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French aviator and author, disappeared July 31, 1944. Plane found in the sea in 2000. Glenn...
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    in 1874 under the terms of the East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act enacted one year earlier, as the Government of India Act had by then rendered it...
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    Measures (1998). In 2000, he produced and acted in the HBO television film, For Love or Country: The Arturo Sandoval Story (2000), where he received a...
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  • This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 2000. 5ive A Perfect Murder Adagio Adema Alcest Alove for Enemies Angelus Apatrida...
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    The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) is a landmark United States federal law which aims to curb inflation by possibly reducing the federal government...
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    Flemish Cap (category Fishing areas of the Atlantic Ocean)
    and International Fisheries and Oceans Governance - Backgrounder - The Grand Banks and the Flemish Cap". Government of Canada. Retrieved on May 1, 2007...
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    by coral reefs. Ongoing acidification of the oceans may therefore threaten food chains linked with the oceans. The United Nations Sustainable Development...
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    The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000 (c.44) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It set the age of consent for male homosexual sexual...
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    Segar, D. (1982). "Ocean waste disposal monitoring – Can it meet management needs?". Oceans 82. IEEE. pp. 1277–1281. doi:10.1109/oceans.1982.1151934. Kooi...
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