Deep-dwelling cookiecutter sharks feature in the media this week following a new study on their diet and habitat, which reveals their reliance on critters rather than the chunks of larger prey (including humans)…
This week, the media can’t get enough of a shape-shifting whale fish captured on film, while the discovery of a shark nursery off Israel continues to generate headlines. A new paper considers whether…
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A bumper edition this week with plenty of deep-sea research hitting the headlines. Amongst these is an eagerly-anticipated MIT paper on the impact and scale of deep-sea nodule mining midwater plumes. Also, architects…
Short-ish round-up this week, but most importantly a reminder to please complete the DOSI Day survey by the 21st July (if you are planning to attend on the 1st September). A relative lull…
New papers study cold-water corals (CWCs) in the context of inter-annual oceanographic variation and noise pollution, using the pandemic as an opportunity to measure a reduced-noise environment. While the basin-wide conservation of Vulnerable…
The news that Nauru has triggered the two-year rule, allowing deep-sea mining to begin the in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone within two years regardless of the regulations in place at the time, has fired…
This week we share an interview with ocean lawyer Hannah Lily. A member of DOSI’s Advisory Board, Hannah has been involved with DOSI from the start, and is an active member of the…