The government wants to count blue carbon towards climate targets. But ocean carbon could cut both ways
NZ's enormous exclusive economic zone contains a huge amount of carbon in its ocean sediments, and releasing even a tiny ...
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White Smokers - Sinkhole Sentinels Discovered in the Dead Sea
Scientists have identified mineral formations on the floor of the Dead Sea that could warn of oncoming sinkholes. | Earth And ...
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Dinosaur-era seafloor discovery could rewrite Earth's history
University of Maryland researchers have found intriguing new evidence of ancient seafloor deep beneath the Earth's surface.
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Spectacular chimneys discovered in the Dead Sea
Researchers have discovered meter-high chimneys on the floor of the Dead Sea. These are formed by the spontaneous crystallization of minerals from groundwater with an extremely high salt content ...
White smokers on the lake floor: Spectacular chimneys discovered in the Dead Sea
In an interdisciplinary research project coordinated by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), researchers ...
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Mapping ‘gloop and mud’ sheds light on seabed carbon storage
Among marine ecosystems, the capacity of mangroves, seagrass meadows and kelp forests to store carbon is well documented, but ...
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Keep Off The Seagrass This Summer
The beds trap sediment and stabilise the ocean floor, as well as carrying out nutrient recycling which in turn improves ...
This Remote Hawaiian Island Had Vanished. Here’s Why Its Comeback Is Crucial
SEE: Before and after images/video of this Pacific island, destroyed and restored to be a breeding ground for sea turtles and ...
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Tiny Plastics Ride Clusters to Spread, Study Finds
A recent study led by Nan Wu, a PhD student in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London, has unveiled a ...
High-speed 'floc trains': Discovery reveals how tiny plastic 'hitchhikers' spread quickly through water systems
Research sheds new light on the spread of microplastics, revealing a surprising "hitchhiking" mechanism that could impact ...
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Bed 5 Event: How A Marine Landslide Moved An Enormous 162 Cubic Kilometers Of Sediment
Events such as Bed 5 don’t happen frequently – they are likely to happen once in a 50,000-year interval. They do not happen ...