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Arctic's underwater fauna Overview At around 78 degrees north, warmer waters are brought to the freezing Arctic Ocean by the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Drift.
The world's oceans is a topic of vital importance, and renowned broadcaster and explorer Sir David Attenborough has taken on ...
MBARI researchers, working alongside a team of international collaborators, have discovered large underwater ice formations at the edge of the Canadian Beaufort Sea, located in a remote region of ...
Robots taught to make decisions underway The two underwater robots are now going to move around and measure fluorescence in an area measuring 1.5 by 1.5 km, down to a depth of 50 metres.
The Arctic is generally quieter than other parts of the globe. Animals there may be less acculturated to noise due in part to the ice that settles like a blanket over the ocean, Lancaster said.
Scientists aboard a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker have discovered something unusual in the Arctic Ocean: a volcano-like structure off the coast of Alaska. They say it’s rising more than 500 meters ...
WASHINGTON -- Joint U.S.-Canada exploration of the Arctic sea floor discovered an unusual underwater mountain and evidence that could boost the two countries' claims that their bo ...
SAN FRANCISCO — A nimble underwater robot has traveled below Arctic sea ice and collected the most extensive real-time video footage yet from this largely unexplored environment, revealing an ...
Deep-sea Arctic sponges feed on fossilized organisms to survive The sponges, some over 300 years old, eat the remains of critters from at least 2,000 years ago ...
"Giant sponge gardens discovered on seamounts in the Arctic deep sea." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 8 February 2022. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 02 / 220208113915.htm>.
Underwater operations in the Arctic are becoming more challenging, in part because more ships are rumbling through the northern waters, a maritime transportation expert said Monday. Within the ...
Underwater mountains help ocean water rise from abyss Turbulence from seafloor topography may explain longstanding question about ocean circulation Date: March 6, 2017 Source: Massachusetts ...