Animals abandon deep-sea mining areas for over a year
14 July 2023
Fish, shrimp and other creatures were found in much lower numbers 13 months after a deep-sea mining test in the Pacific Ocean
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The Bathysphere Book review: Amazing story of the first deep-sea dives
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Brad Fox's vivid retelling of the voyages of the first deep-sea submersible is full of fascinating technology, novel marine discoveries – and unusual scientists
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These beautiful sculptures are watching over the Great Barrier Reef
7 June 2023
Ocean Sentinels is a series of mostly underwater sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor, who hopes the statues will be colonised by corals and other threatened marine life
We’ve been drastically underestimating Earth’s microbial diversity
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A survey of bacteria and archaea living in 99 coral reefs across the Pacific Ocean found these ecosystems may contain more microbes than current estimates for the whole planet – suggesting everywhere else on Earth does too
Whale shark seen bottom feeding for the first time
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An ecotourism guide in Mexico filmed a whale shark gulping down material from the seabed, a behaviour that has never been observed in this species before
Blue Machine review: Earth's ocean as a giant engine
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Helen Czerski's fascinating new book casts the ocean as an extraordinary giant engine, and helps us grasp its complex physics and its key role in climate change
