Reminiscent of Octran fertility contests.

The soil here is fertile.

Because, as you can see, it was crescent shaped.

This is a huge and important one, number 11.

There is a great deal of poverty.

Rich soil yields good crops.

The basin of a river usually has rich farmland.

This was one of the most fertile lands in Afghanistan.

It has fertile soil where corn be grown.

That means, you know, net fertility farming.

Fertile soil is indispensable for a good harvest.

pinch a minnow, hurt a whale.

We'll look at sea level rise.

So stay tuned for further information.

The settlers learned that the land in the valley was fertile.

The equalization of the oceanic

And the list of scientific applications is growing every day.

like black carbon, that is soot.

(Laughter)

It was dead.

People also domesticated docile, local animals.

Well, there's also another program, in another agency within our government, in ocean exploration.

And they said, Well, we can take you there, but you can't go inside because that's the sacred altar, where we do sacrifices every year to keep up those annual cycles of fertility for the fields.

In a matter of five or six years, they have a forest, the soil is enriched, and the village is saved.

I've been working on ocean pollution for quite a long time the impacts on marine life and particularly the impacts on marine mammals.

And there are a lot of other pressures.

We made a chip that has every known virus ever discovered on it.

We'll look at ocean warming.

Japan is also surrounded by oceans.

WOMAN ( over radio ) The yacht Tranquilizer.

And Dave Gallo signed on.

I want to pass a really nice, healthy soil, rich soil earth on to the children and have it be fertile.

In the early '70s,

But it's not just the carbonate producers that are affected.

One of these days we will. ( mellow theme playing ) WOMAN ( over radio )

And we're letting industry run the show.

Well, I could stand here for hours, but, of course, I'm not allowed to do that.

Well, law, Soylent, oceanography...?

To me, the most mind bending example of the interconnectedness of the ocean comes from an acoustic experiment where oceanographers took a ship to the southern Indian Ocean, deployed an underwater loudspeaker and played back a sound.

If it's too big or too toxic for a landfill, deep six it!

Japan is a country with advanced environmental technologies.

Dr. Satoshi Takada. Marine biologist. Lieutenant Commander for the Navy since 1997.

But I miss the sea already.

We're only just beginning to understand how the physical oceanography and the biological oceanography come together to create a seasonal force that actually causes the upwelling that might make a hot spot a hope spot.

There are four oceans in the world.