The ocean twilight zone could store vast amounts of carbon captured from the atmosphere, but first we need a 4D monitoring system to ensure ramping up carbon storage does no harm.
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The idea we know more about the Moon than the deep sea is seductive – but it’s 70 years out of date.
Among the dozens of endangered species, is a spiky snail named after The Clash lead singer, Joe Strummer.
In Lough Hyne’s shallows, animals and plants thrive that would otherwise be found in the ocean’s depths.
Rescuers have released photos of the submarine wreckage, found more than 800 metres deep. What happens now?
But these ‘cold-water coral’ are threatened by accelerating sea currents.
Here’s how microplastics from your clothes end up in the deep sea.
Unless we know what is in the ocean, we can’t protect the biggest part of the planet.
Almost a decade before the moon landings, humans reached the lowest point on Earth’s surface.
Companies are developing technologies to mine the deep sea, but environmental regulations have yet to be finalized.
We know very little about the deep sea and how its inhabitants, including anglerfish, will respond to change. In fact, more people have walked on the Moon than have been to the bottom of the ocean.
The pressure in the deepest part of the ocean can be 1,000 times greater than the pressure we experience at sea level – but creatures that live and visit there have some very special features.
These ‘snailfish’ look too fragile to exist several miles below the waves.
Harnessing the awe-inspiring living light and power of bioluminescent organisms could change the human world.
It seems almost inevitable that deep sea mining will open a new and substantial chapter of humanity’s relationship with the oceans.
Few fish can survive in these freezing waters, so invertebrates are the dominant predators.
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In this episode of The Anthill podcast we are off exploring: land, sea and space.
Surveying the bottom of the ocean turns out to be far from easy. But there was something wonderful about seeing animals we have only read about in old books.
But should we care if the extreme marine frontier is not clean?
People are more likely to support conservation for cute rather than creepy-looking animals.
Top contributors
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Founding Professor of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research centre, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Ocean Exploration and Science Communication, University of Southampton
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Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria Research Institute
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Director - Institute for Conservation Biology and Environmental Management, University of Wollongong
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Curator of Fishes, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; Newcastle University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Arlington
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Director of Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Biotechnology, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor in Marine Microbiology, University of East Anglia
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Lecturer in English, University of Bristol
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Lecturer, Cardiff University
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Associate professor, Adelaide University
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Associate Professor of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington
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Director, Research Centre for Deep Sea, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)
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Himalayan geologist, Lancaster University