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Deep sea metallic nodules could help us shift to clean energy. But we don’t know how much damage it will do to ecosystems
The recent tragedy of the Titan submersible bore striking parallels to one of the most widely read novels about life at sea.
Deep underwater, the Titan submersible would have been crushed in less than a second once a defect cracked the hull.
The snailfish was recently found living at depths believed physically impossible.
The discovery of the deepest fish in a Japanese trench raises the question, what else is out there? But before the mind leaps to all things dark and spooky, take a fresh look at life in the deep sea.
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.
The idea we know more about the Moon than the deep sea is seductive – but it’s 70 years out of date.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.
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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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Director - Institute for Conservation Biology and Environmental Management, University of Wollongong
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Research Associate, Marine Ecology, Newcastle University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Arlington
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Ocean Climate Scientist, British Antarctic Survey
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Director of Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Biotechnology, Heriot-Watt University
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Himalayan geologist, Lancaster University
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Associate Professor of Biology, University of Texas at Arlington
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Adjunct Professor in Naval and Maritime Strategy and Policy, Australian National University
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Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast
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Lecturer in English, University of Bristol
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Director, Research Centre for Deep Sea, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)
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Professor, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria
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Senior Curator of Marine Invertebrates, Museums Victoria Research Institute
