Dec 27 2010
How Low Can Life Go?
A thriving realm of subterranean, submarine microbes could play an important role in the global carbon budget.
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Dec 14 2010
Antarctic Melting as Deep Ocean Heat Rises
Melting along the Antarctic coast has researchers realizing that the deep sea has been holding Earth's warming.
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Dec 10 2010
Dead Whales Foster Ocean of Life
Entire generations of crabs, worms and other deep-sea animals can survive for years on a single whale carcass.
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Nov 15 2010
Deep Sea Lavas Bake Sediments, Add to Warming
In a surprise finding, undersea hot lava is baking ocean sediments and releasing greenhouse gases.
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Aug 19 2010
Giant Underwater Oil Plume Found in Gulf of Mexico
A new survey of the waters around the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster has found a massive, submerged plume of hydrocarbons.
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Jul 15 2010
Polar Species Leap 9,000 Miles
How exactly are some polar species able to find homes at opposite ends of the world?
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Jul 12 2010
Deepwater Shark Diets Include Other Sharks
These sharks' diets had long been a mystery, but DNA sequencing is shedding light on how they survive in their deepwater world.
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May 12 2010
‘King of Herrings’ Found Off Sweden’s Coast
The last time one of these fish was spotted in Sweden was in 1879.
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May 08 2010
Deep-Sea Ice Crystals Stymie Gulf Oil Leak Fix
A slushy mix of deep-sea water and oil is hindering attempts to slow the Gulf of Mexico leak.
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May 03 2010
Relief Drilling to Take Time to Stop Oil Gush
It could be summer before oil gushing from the broken oil well in the Gulf is stopped.
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