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Scientists Create One of the Most Detailed Maps of the Ocean Floor, Find Close to 100,000 Submerged Mountains
This new mapping capability will help plan routes for undersea communication cables, and even provide insights into tectonic ...
Scientists thought this Antarctic sea floor would be barren. But it's teeming with life
When the crew aboard an ocean science expedition learned that an iceberg the size of Chicago had broken off from an Antarctic ...
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Suddenly Miners Are Tearing Up the Seafloor for Critical Metals
Holt, one of Magellan’s offshore managers, said the aim was to test the physical requirements and environmental impacts of ...
Shining a light on the Southern Ocean's deep, dark underworld
Four thousand metres below the surface lies a mysterious and alien world with a staggering diversity of strange creatures.
A Curious Mutation Is Letting Earth’s Deep-Sea Creatures Survive the Abyss
A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...
They lifted a rock on the ocean floor—what they found was alive and massive
The discovery, led by scientists from the Schmidt Ocean Institute in Palo Alto, California, revealed a previously unknown ecosystem lurking beneath the seabed. Using a remotely operated submersible, ...
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'Dark oxygen': a deep-sea discovery that has split scientists
The research that gave rise to the dark oxygen discovery was partly funded by a Canadian deep-sea mining business, The Metals Company, that wanted to assess the ecological impact of such exploration.