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[email protected] www.lsevacations.co.uk Contents Message from Features 10 the editor 4 Headline news 6 Oceans 13 This issue we look at the major topic of climate change, with The world’s oceans are divided into 13 regions a focus on the oceans through the work of Lenny Smith, as by the Global Ocean Observing Systems well as some of the economic implications of Sir Nicholas (GOOS).