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It’s not just toxic chemicals. Radioactive waste was also dumped off Los Angeles coast
10 months ago

It’s not just toxic chemicals. Radioactive waste was also dumped off Los Angeles coast

LA Times  

For decades, a graveyard of corroding barrels has littered the seafloor just off the coast of Los Angeles. Jacob Schmidt, lead author of the study and a PhD candidate in Valentine’s lab, combed through hundreds of pages of old records and tracked down seven lines of evidence indicating that California Salvage, the same company tasked with pouring the DDT waste …

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Marine heatwaves are sweeping the seafloor around North America
1 year, 9 months ago

Marine heatwaves are sweeping the seafloor around North America

The Hindu  

Heatwaves unfolding on the bottom of the ocean can be more intense and last longer than those on the sea surface, new research suggests, but such extremes in the deep ocean are often overlooked. A team of scientists with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have conducted the first assessment of marine heatwaves along North America's continental shelves. "We …

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Microbes trapped under seafloor for 100 million years revived
4 years, 4 months ago

Microbes trapped under seafloor for 100 million years revived

India TV News  

A team of scientists from Japan and America has successfully revived tiny microbes trapped in a lifeless zone of the seabed for more than 100 million years. "We wanted to know how long the microbes could sustain their life in a near-absence of food," said microbiologist Yuki Morono from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, who led the …

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Mad Scientists Revive 100-Million-Year-Old Microbes
4 years, 4 months ago

Mad Scientists Revive 100-Million-Year-Old Microbes

Wired  

By contrast, in the middle of the Pacific, there’s surely life, just a lot less of it. “It's the least-explored large biome on Earth, because it covers 70 percent of Earth's surface,” says the University of Rhode Island's Steven D’Hondt, who co-led the expedition and coauthored a new paper in Nature Communications describing the findings. “If you trawl through the …

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Four bizarre new species of giant single-celled organisms discoverd in the Pacific Ocean
4 years, 5 months ago

Four bizarre new species of giant single-celled organisms discoverd in the Pacific Ocean

Daily Mail  

Four new species of giant single-celled organisms that live inside 'skeletons' up to four inches long have been discovered lurking in the Pacific Ocean. It was found in the Clarion-Clipperton zone, three miles below the surface between Hawaii and the US mainland The xenophyophores were found in the vast Clarion-Clipperton Zone Each organism had its genetics and body shape examined …

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