Plastic often grabs the headlines and its pervasiveness in the natural environment, including the deep ocean, is both highly visible and alarming. But plastic is far from being the only anthropogenic pollutant impacting…
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…
CLICK FOR YOUR DEEP-SEA ROUND-UP – Thursday 12th August 2021. SIGN UP NOW – TO GET DEEP-SEA NEWS, EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX
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…