Collaborate Disseminate
Forget space – the oceans are Earth’s final frontier. Even after centuries of exploration we’re still only just scratching the surface of what lives down there. The latest case in point is a diving expedition off the coast of Western Australia, which h… Continue reading Deep sea expedition uncovers 30 new species, plus longest-known animal
The world’s oceans play an important role in regulating the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by absorbing billions of metric tons of it each year. A new study suggests we may have been greatly underestimating the effectiveness of this vast ca… Continue reading Study suggests the ocean is soaking up twice as much CO2 as we thought
Although seawalls certainly do protect coastal communities from storm surge waves, those walls can be unsightly, plus they restrict access to the water. A proposed new system gets around those problems, by doubling as a canopy when not serving storm du… Continue reading Seaside canopy could tilt to block storm waves
The winners of this year’s Nikon Surf Photo and Video Awards have been revealed, highlighting an incredible array of images spanning the entire coast of Australia and the world. The top prize went to a spectacular shot looking down a turquoise barrel t… Continue reading Take to the seas with Nikon’s best surf photography of the year
Millions of tons of plastic waste washes into the world’s oceans each year, but a new study has revealed that it doesn’t all move through the water in the same way. Scientists investigating the movement of submarine sediment have found that so-called u… Continue reading Underwater avalanches drive microplastic waste into the deep ocean
Every time we think we’ve figured out the limits of where life can exist, we discover extremophile organisms thriving under conditions we’d previously ruled out. The latest example comes from studies of rock cores drilled from the floor of the Indian O… Continue reading Extremophile microbes found thriving half a mile beneath the seafloor
Although autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are electrically-powered, they’re typically launched from fuel-burning surface support vessels. A new system is being designed to replace those ships with more environmentally-friendly wave-powered underwa… Continue reading Wave-powered AUV stations could replace crewed support ships
It covers almost three quarters of the Earth, but we know only a fraction of what lies beneath the ocean’s surface. Google’s parent company Alphabet has today launched a new initiative called Tidal aimed at changing that, with an overarching objective … Continue reading Alphabet launches Tidal, a moonshot to save the world’s oceans
Famed American aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937, while attempting to fly around the world in a Lockheed Model 10E Electra. Now, a high-tech unmanned boat has been enlisted to help search for that plane, near an island where Earhart may have crash-landed.
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Continue Reading Autonomous watercraft will be used to search the sea for Amelia Earhart’s airplane
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Scientists at the University of Exeter have turned to Twitter for a better picture of the effect ocean plastics are having on sharks and rays…
Continue Reading Scientists identify more than 1,000 sharks and rays tangled in ocean waste
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