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Robert Bosch Foundation Germany: Stuttgart: $6 billion €5.3 billion 1964 [36] 36 Children's Investment Fund Foundation United Kingdom: London: $5.9 billion £5.2 billion 2002 [37] 37 Conrad N. Hilton Foundation United States: Westlake Village, California: $5.9 billion 1944 [38] 38 Nemours Foundation United States: Jacksonville: $4.6 billion ...
Ocean – the four to seven largest named bodies of water in the World Ocean, all of which have "Ocean" in the name (see: Borders of the oceans for details). Sea has several definitions: [a] A division of an ocean, delineated by landforms, [6] currents (e.g., Sargasso Sea), or specific latitude or longitude boundaries. This includes but is not ...
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation; World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts; World Literacy Foundation; World Medical Relief; World Scout Foundation; World Transformation Movement; World Vision International; World Wide Fund for Nature; Wounded Warrior Project; Wyoming Wildlife Federation
The Schmidt Ocean Institute founded in 2009, is a separate private foundation [17] established by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, that has received grants from the Schmidt Family Foundation for acquiring and operating the Institute’s oceanographic research vessels, including the Falkor.
At 165,250,000 square kilometers (63,800,000 square miles) in area (as defined with a southern Antarctic border), the Pacific Ocean is the largest division of the World Ocean and the hydrosphere and covers about 46% of Earth's water surface and about 32% of the planet's total surface area, larger than its entire land area (148,000,000 km 2 ...
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest cetacean on the planet. While some have claimed that there were dinosaurs that topped its size, there is no scientific data to support that ...
The entire ocean, containing 97% of Earth's water, spans 70.8% of Earth's surface, [8] making it Earth's global ocean or world ocean. [23] [25] This makes Earth, along with its vibrant hydrosphere a "water world" [43] [44] or "ocean world", [45] [46] particularly in Earth's early history when the ocean is thought to have possibly covered Earth ...
The Bertarelli Foundation also provided funding. [15] Blue Marine was a founder member of the Great Blue Ocean coalition, [19] of six NGOs that in 2017 campaigned for the UK Government to establish the Blue Belt Programme [20] widely recognised as one of the world's leading marine conservation initiatives. [21]