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A new study led by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre has revealed that animals living on the deep-ocean floor may play a vital role in maintaining polymetallic nodules. These mineral deposits contribute to biodiversi…
The white sand on a Maldivian beach did not arrive from a river or erode off a cliff. A great deal of it was once coral reef, and it got from the reef to the beach by passing through a fish. This is the kind of fact that…
During the Second World War, sonar operators kept finding the seabed in the wrong place. Their instruments returned a solid echo at two or three hundred metres in waters charted as kilometres deep, and the false bottom m…
Seaweed grows fast, needs no fertiliser, no freshwater and no land, and absorbs carbon dioxide while it does it. Few climate propositions have ever looked more intuitively appealing, and few have attracted investment fas…
An international research team led by GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has set sail from Ponta Delgada on the research vessel Maria S. Merian, heading for the Cape Verde Islands. The aim of the expedition…
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