Source: Mirror
Author: Michael Havis and Kelly-Ann Mills
A creature so rare that it has only a few recorded sightings across the world has been caught on camera by stunned scientists.
The benthic siphonophore, which looks like a single animal, is actually a “floating city” of many smaller organisms working together.29
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Source: ABC News
Author: By Tyne Logan and Ellie Honeybone
Details of what lives in the depths of a unique deep-sea canyon are set to be uncovered in an expedition underway on the south coast of Western Australia.
Source: Atlas Obscura
Author: Sabrina Imbler
Scientists dropped three alligators to the bottom of the ocean. One of them was never seen again.
Continue reading The Curious Case of the Deep-Sea Bone Worms and the Vanishing Underwater Gator
Source: The Conversation
Author: Jon Copley
On January 23 1960, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh climbed into an undersea craft called Trieste and dived nearly 11 kilometres to the deepest point in the ocean – the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
The Protectors Oceans series examines the cutting edge of science and radical thinking at work in tackling the crisis facing the world’s seas. This series reflects the passion of those at the front line of marine biology, and tells the story of the challenges we face as we explore the world’s oceans.
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Source: Stock Daily Dish
We know a lot about how carbon dioxide (CO2) levels can drive climate change, but how about the way that climate change can cause fluctuations in CO2 levels? New research from an international team of scientists reveals one of the mechanisms by which a colder climate was accompanied by depleted atmospheric CO2 during past ice ages.
Scroll your way down to the deepest depths of the ocean, meeting all the creatures who live there along the way, with this great interactive website from Neal Agarwal!
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Source: The Guardian
Author: Fiona Harvey
Halting overfishing and the plastic pollution of the oceans could help tackle the climate emergency by improving the degraded state of the world’s biggest carbon sink, a report has found.
Continue reading Tackling degraded oceans could mitigate climate crisis
Source: Stuff.co.nz
Author: Amber-Leigh Woolf
Commercial fishers are “bulldozing” ocean floors, says Greenpeace.
Its calculations show that in the 2017-2018 fishing season, New Zealand commercial fishing vessels destroyed up to 3000 tonnes of coral and other vulnerable species through bottom trawling.
Continue reading Fishing vessels ‘bulldozing’ oceans, destroying 3000 tonnes of coral in one year
Source: Business Newswire
Today, NOAA Fisheries issued final regulations to protect more than 140,000 square miles of seafloor habitat off the U.S. West Coast from destructive bottom trawling. Places protected include corals, sponges, rocky reefs and other important areas for marine life and ocean ecosystems. These safeguards for the living seafloor are in response to a vote by the Pacific Fishery Management Council in April 2018 — following years of scientific input and advocacy by Oceana — to more than double the spatial extent of seafloor protections off California, Oregon and Washington from the impacts of bottom trawl fishing gear. Once the new regulations take effect on January 1, 2020, 90 percent of the seafloor in U.S. ocean waters off the West Coast will be off limits to bottom trawling.
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