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When the Arctic coast retreats, life in the shallow water areas drastically changes

The thawing and erosion of Arctic permafrost coasts has dramatically increased in the past years and the sea is now consuming more than 20 metres of land per…

Magnifying time reveals fundamental rogue wave instabilities of nature

Researchers from INRS and the FEMTO-ST Institute in France have used a novel measurement technique that magnifies time to reveal how ultrafast intense pulses…

Manganese nodules as breeding ground for deep-sea octopuses

Manganese nodules on the seabed of the Pacific Ocean are an important breeding ground for deep-sea octopuses. As reported by a German-American team of…

MBARI's seafloor maps provide new information about 2015 eruption at Axial Seamount

At the 2016 meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) will be presenting a new…

Tectonic shift?

Plate tectonics, the idea that the surface of the Earth is made up of plates that move apart and come back together, has been used to explain the locations of…

Taking stock of the world's lakes

The total shoreline of the world's lakes is more than four times longer than the global ocean coastline. And if all the water in those lakes were spread over…

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