Microplastics deposited on the seafloor triple in 20 years
The total amount of microplastics deposited on the bottom of oceans has tripled in the past two decades with a ...
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Chemical weapons may not protect Antarctic seafloor animals and their value for drug discovery
By Wynne Parry Credit: Conxita Avila By Wynne Parry Long-lived sponges, intestine-like worms, colonies of sea squirts and many other ...
Seafloor sediments tell a 75-year history of marine microplastic pollution
The term “microplastic” (MP) was coined in 2004, and marine plastics started attracting public attention. In particular, the progress of ...
Dinosaur-killing asteroid triggered global tsunami that scoured seafloor thousands of miles from impact site
Video // Images and Animations The miles-wide asteroid that struck Earth 66 million years ago wiped out nearly all the ...
Faster in the Past: New seafloor images – the highest resolution of any taken off the West Antarctic Ice Sheet – upend understanding of Thwaites Glacier retreat
TAMPA, Fla. (Sept. 2, 2022) – The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica – about the size of Florida – has ...
Noise affects life on the seafloor
Oceans have their own unique soundscape. Many marine organisms, for example, use sound for echolocation, navigation or communication with conspecifics. ...
Installation of deep-water pipeline gives immediate boost to sea-floor animals
An underwater survey west of Africa, off the Angolan coast, found that both the abundance and types of animals on ...
Seafloor animal cued to settle, transformed by a bacterial compound
Most bottom-dwelling marine invertebrate animals, such as sponges, corals, worms and oysters, produce tiny larvae that swim in the ocean ...
Seafloor spreading has been slowing down
WASHINGTON—A new global analysis of the last 19 million years of seafloor spreading rates found they have been slowing down. ...
First-of-its-kind research reveals rapid changes to the Arctic seafloor as submerged permafrost thaws
A new study from MBARI researchers and their collaborators is the first to document how the thawing of permafrost, submerged ...
“Seafloor fertilizer factory” helped breathe life into Earth
Scientists reveal a new part of the recipe for complex life on planets, and it involves the onset of a ...
Bubbles of methane rising from seafloor in Puget Sound
The release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas responsible for almost a quarter of global warming, is being studied around ...