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Smithsonian Magazine on MSN2d
As Norway Considers Deep-Sea Mining, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts
In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...
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Trail of Crabs Leads Scientists To Underwater Discovery Off Galápagos Coast
Scientists have recently uncovered a previously unknown hydrothermal vent field off the coast of the Galápagos Islands, aided ...
Smithsonian Magazine14d
You Might Think of Shrimp as Bugs of the Sea. But a Remarkable Discovery Shows the Opposite: Bugs Are Actually Shrimp of the Land
Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...
Scientific American1mon
Meet Some of the Strangest Deep-Sea Creatures, from ‘Sea Pigs’ to ‘Disco Worms’
Their residence attracts shrimp, fish and many other creatures. These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of the ocean floor that scientists are only beginning to explore, discovering new ...
Phys.org1mon
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about: By dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
As the demand for electric car batteries and smartphones grows, mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious ... squid and crustaceans that rely on zooplankton ...
The Straits Times27d
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about
As the demand for electric car batteries and smartphones grows, mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious ... squid and crustaceans that rely on zooplankton ...