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Breath-taking moments in the Black Sea: Periodic hypoxia affects seafloor fauna and carbon turnover

Periodic oscillations of bottom-water oxygen concentrations can alter benthic communities and carbon storage for decades, reveals a new study published in…

Together we are unpredictable: why sailfish hunt more successfully as a group

Sailfish are large oceanic predatory fish that attack their prey with their long, sharp bills. When hunting, individuals increase their success rate by…

UCI, NASA reveal new details of Greenland ice loss

Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign, data from the new program are providing a dramatic…

Litter Levels in the Depths of the Arctic are On the Rise

The Arctic has a serious litter problem: in just ten years, the concentration of marine litter at a deep-sea station in the Arctic Ocean has risen 20-fold….

Gas hydrate breakdown unlikely to cause massive greenhouse gas release

Methane hydrate, which is also referred to as gas hydrate, is a naturally-occurring, ice-like form of methane and water that is stable within a narrow range of…

Expedition to the Glaciers of the Antarctic

How has the West Antarctic Ice Sheet changed in response to alternating warm and cold time periods? And what does it mean for the sea level – today and…

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