Jan 6, 2019 · Delivery of ocean science as it occurs through the eyes of 7 scientists: all the news and oddities of this planet's largest environment.

Jan 1, 2024 · Earlier this year [2023], the [Norway] government suggested opening more than 280,000 square kilometers of the country’s territorial waters to deep-sea mining. The plan has the broad backing of the four major parties, including the opposition, and is expected to pass in a final vote on January 9. Green activists, scientists, fishermen …

Exploring the depths of the ocean reveals a fascinating array of life forms, showcasing the incredible adaptability of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms to high-pressure environments. Even in the Challenger Deep, where pressures exceed 110 MPa, microbial life thrives. Interestingly, several large multicellular organisms have been discovered at these extreme depths. A striking 74% of ...

Craig is the Chief Editor for Deep Sea News (Homepage | Twitter | Author RSS) Dr. Craig R. McClain received his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and conducted postdoctoral work at the University of New Mexico and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. He has previously served as the Deputy Director for the Triangle Center for Evolutionary Medicine and the Assistant Director ...

Dec 11, 2023 · The prevalence of prokaryotic and eukaryotic life through the range of high pressures in the deep oceans suggests that organisms can easily adapt to these conditions. Even at the extreme pressures (>110 MPa) in the Challenger Deep, microbial life flourishes and differs from the background abyss. Several large multicellular organisms have been found at extreme depths and pressures and can be ...

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Jun 13, 2024 · A great bit of writing and journalism at Wired on the avoidable Titan submersible incident. "A trove of tens of thousands of internal OceanGate emails, documents, and photographs provided exclusively to WIRED by anonymous sources sheds new light on Titan’s development, from its initial design and manufacture through its first deep-sea operations. The documents, validated by

May 23, 2024 · But once dealing with oxygen issue, how do these species survive the toxic sulfide and heavy metal soup of vents and seeps. One way means of survival for these organisms is prevent sulfide from even reaching sensitive tissues. Creating sulfide barriers may mean creating thick tubes or cuticles to prevent the skin from encountering suflide. For example, the Pompeii worm, Alvinella pompejana, at ...

Jun 4, 2024 · At some vents lives the curious little worm, Alvinella pompejana. Discovered in the early 1980s by French scientists, the Pompeii worm is about 4 inches long with tentacle-like, scarlet gills on its head. Its name hints at its high-temperature habitat, being derived from the ill-fated Roman city of Pompeii, destroyed abruptly during an eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. The scarlet worm is ...

Dec 28, 2023 · The deep sea host a remarkably high diversity of life, a realm teeming with an astonishing array of species with a vast set of adaptations that allow them to survive in this inhospitable environment. However, the origins of this incredible biodiversity remain a compelling mystery. The fossil record hints at a trend of shallow origins diversifying into the depths for certain marine organisms ...