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Hurricanes stir deep ocean layers, bringing nutrients and low-oxygen zones to surface, study finds
With careful planning and a little luck, researchers found a surprising upside to hurricanes after a Category 4 storm disrupted their expedition off the coast of Mexico. The team was able to sample ...
In recent months, leaders in California and Santa Cruz County have spoken out in opposition to offshore drilling and seabed ...
Scientists launch a global mission to explore 10,000 deep ocean locations and uncover unseen marine life and ecosystems ...
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Warmer ocean is driving the Antarctic sea ice 'regime shift'
Since 2016, Antarctic sea ice extent has been declining sharply – now scientists are piecing together how strong winds and ...
Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...
More than 10,000 feet deep in the ocean, the seafloor is covered with what look like dark, lumpy potatoes. These polymetallic nodules, as they're known, take millions of years to form, slowly ...
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