The rising tide of sand mining: A growing threat to marine life
In the delicate balancing act between human development and protecting the fragile natural world, sand is weighing down the ...
Trace fossils reveal clues to evolution of tiny organisms in deep marine ecosystems
Dr. Luis Buatois (Ph.D.) traces a series of hexagons with his finger, following the path carved by tiny organisms millions of ...
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Hard Rock Geology above the Challenger Deep
I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our target was an east-to-west transect starting near Guam, over the Challenger ...
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Scientists discover thriving life deep below the surface of the Earth
Samples for the study came from boreholes, deep-sea sediments, underground aquifers, and rock fractures. Marine environments, particularly deep ocean sediments, were found to harbor high ...
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Marine Benthic Ecology
The study of the ecology of marine communities that live on or near the rocks and sediments of the ocean floor. (Crab photo courtesy biological oceanographer Lisa Levin.) CMBC promotes ...