How Life Thrives Under the Ocean’s Crushing Pressure
Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated Styrofoam cups. A couple dozen line the bookshelf of my office, each displaying a…
Global Conveyor Belt 2007: Hamster Wheel or Hemicuda?
Some new waves, pun intended, are being generated this week concerning the meridional overturning circulation (MOC). You are already familiar with the MOC as the…
View More Global Conveyor Belt 2007: Hamster Wheel or Hemicuda?Bottled Hoax
What is so special about bottled deep-sea water? Nothing.
View More Bottled HoaxThe War On Arctic Terror
Hat tip goes to Kiki, who pointed out a recent article in Wired, U.S. Readies for Polar Warfare (Updated). There you have it…Canada is amping…
View More The War On Arctic TerrorFriday Deep-Sea Picture (8/17/07): Trieste
To nice to save till tomorrow, Kevin sent along a “old” submersible chapter from Hill’s The Sea from 1963. The chapter itself is authored by…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (8/17/07): TriestePNG For Sale
And two the highest bidder goes Papua New Guinea’s government, mineral rights, and everything else is up for sale in this huge mid-year blowout sale.…
View More PNG For SaleImperialism Going Strong in the Arctic
In the race for the Arctic there is Canada, United States, and Russia all staking claim on the increasingly accessible Northwest Passage and the mineral…
View More Imperialism Going Strong in the ArcticEco-sexy
How many times have you seen pallets of bottled water coming off the forklift at the grocery store, and felt your stomach turning in disgust? Never? Not once? That’s not enough! You should be sick. Bottled water is sooo not sexy. Fortunately, America’s eco-sexy water retailers are coming to rescue North America from the new dark ages.
View More Eco-sexyA Cure Worse than Oil
It’s a good thing marine biologist Buki Rinkevich and his colleagues at the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Station decided to test the effects of detergents on corals before using them to clean up an oil spill.
The researchers reported recently in Environmental Science and Technology that millimeter sized coral fragments succumbed to the detergent before the oil itself.
Lighted Whoopie In the Sea
Are animals of the deep giving lighted come-hither signals? Is there bioluminescent hanky panky going on?
View More Lighted Whoopie In the SeaSea Squirts Just Want To Have Fun
It’s Friday afternoon and your setting there staring at the monitor. Sure you could be productive and continue on until 5. But hey, it’s Friday…
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