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Great Lake's sinkholes host exotic ecosystems
Feb 24, 2009 |
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Researchers are exploring extreme conditions for life in a place not known for extremes.
Microbe Survives in Ocean's Deepest Realm, Thanks to Genetic Adaptations
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Feb 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The genome of a marine bacterium living 2,500 meters below the ocean's surface is providing clues to how life adapts in extreme environments, according to a paper published Feb. 6, 2009, in ...
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Genetic adaptations are key to microbe's survival in challenging environment
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Feb 06, 2009 |
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The research focused on the bacterium Nautilia profundicola, a microbe that survives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Photosynthesis cannot occur in this dark environment, where hot, toxic fluids oozing from below the se ...
Technology opens promise, perils of ocean mining
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- There's gold in that thar sea floor. Silver, copper, zinc and lead, too. The problem is, it's a mile or two underwater and encased in massive mineral deposits that layer a dark, mysterious world.
First sea trials for deep-ocean robotic DNA lab
May 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In late April 2009, a team of MBARI researchers tested the world's only deep-sea robotic DNA lab beneath the waters of Monterey Bay.
Deep sea expedition sets sail
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Nov 10, 2008 |
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Setting sail on the Pacific, a University of Delaware-led research team has embarked on an extreme adventure that will find several of its members plunging deep into the sea to study hydrothermal vents on ...
Scientists break record by finding northernmost hydrothermal vent field
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 24, 2008 |
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Well inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found black smoker vents farther north than anyone has ever seen before. The cluster of five vents – one towering nearly four stories in height – are venting ...
Japan to use deep-sea probes to search for minerals
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Aug 06, 2009 |
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Japan plans to deploy unmanned probes to scour the sea-floor around the resource-poor island nation for mineral deposits, a government-backed scientific organisation said Thursday.
Study warns deepsea mining may pose serious threat to fragile marine ecosystems
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May 17, 2007 |
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Undersea habitats supporting rare and potentially valuable organisms are at risk from seafloor mining scheduled to begin within this decade, says a new study led by a University of Toronto Mississauga geologist.
Climate variability impacts the deep sea
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Nov 02, 2009 |
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Deep-sea ecosystems occupying 60% of the Earth's surface could be vulnerable to the effects of global warming warn scientists writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Oases for Life on the Mid-Caymen Rise
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Oct 21, 2009 |
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A team of oceanographers and astrobiologists is currently exploring one of the deepest points in the Caribbean Sea. Follow their blog as they search for life in this extreme seafloor environment.
Hydrothermal vents: Hot spots of microbial diversity
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Oct 04, 2007 |
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Thousands of new kinds of marine microbes have been discovered at two deep-sea hydrothermal vents off the Oregon coast by scientists at the MBL (Marine Biological Laboratory) and University of Washington’s Joint Institute ...
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