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Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle “Nereus” Reaches Deepest Part of the Ocean

The dive makes Nereus the world’s deepest-diving vehicle and the first vehicle to explore the Mariana Trench since 1998. Nereus’s unique hybrid-vehicle design…

Squid 'sight': Not just through eyes

That's what researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report in the current issue (June 2) of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The…

Elevated Water Temperature and Acidity Boost Growth of Key Sea Star Species

The study is one of the first to look at the impact of ocean acidification on marine invertebrates that don’t have a large calcified skeleton or external…

Drilled Cores Yield Unique Arctic Climate Data

A team of scientists from the United States, Germany, Russia and Austria returned recently from a six-month sediment drilling expedition at a frozen lake in…

Who will pick up the bill?

Ocean acidification, a direct result of increased CO2 emission, is set to change the Earth's marine ecosystems forever and may have a direct impact on our…

Melting Greenland Ice Sheets May Threaten Northeast United States, Canada

The study finds that if Greenland ice melts at moderate to high rates, ocean circulation by 2100 may shift and cause sea levels off the northeast coast of…

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