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China Mapping Seafloor Around US Allies to Send Nuclear Submarines—Analyst
A Chinese vessel is suspected of mapping the seafloor around U.S. allies Australia and New Zealand to support submarine ...
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Deep Sea Cables Hold The Answer To Early Earthquake Detection, A Pacific-Based Project Suggests
From the sensation of the world shaking beneath your feet, to the fear of what might happen next, it doesn’t matter how many ...
Gray whales are dying again off the Pacific Coast. Scientists look at if climate change is to blame
Dozens of gray whales are dying in Pacific Ocean waters again this year and human-caused climate change may be to blame, ...
Never-before-seen chain of volcanoes discovered hiding on the Pacific seafloor
After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the newly discovered structures.
My team discovered ‘dark oxygen’ on the seafloor – now we’re trying to understand how it was made
The discovery of dark oxygen clearly has potential implications for the deep-sea mining industry. Deep-sea mining would extract polymetallic nodules that contain metals such as manganese, nickel and ...
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New Volcano Chain Found in Cook Islands, Pacific Ocean
Researchers uncover a possible active underwater volcano chain near the Cook Islands, hinting at fresh geological activity.
Easter Island’s volcanoes are older than the ocean floor
In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...
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Western Pacific nations launch new push to protect ocean biodiversity
These commitments came at the Fifteenth Intergovernmental Session of UNESCO’s IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific ...
Ship docks, scientists peer into waves, find ‘treasure’ in Pacific Ocean abyss
Several Underwater Volcanoes Found on the Seafloor About 60 Kilometers from Rarotonga Island.
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Seafloor cables detect Pacific Ocean earthquakes
The Pacific Ocean is a highly seismically active area and since the ... providing the potential to develop a worldwide monitoring network of seafloor sensors using the existing subsea infrastructure.
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There's no rulebook for deep sea mining. Companies want to push forward anyway
A Vancouver-based startup, The Metals Company, says it's ready to launch the world's first deep-sea mine in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Here ... A handful have begun permitting the exploration for ...
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First earthquakes detected in Pacific Ocean using ultra-stable optical interferometry on undersea cables
The Pacific Ocean is a highly seismically active area ... changing potential to develop a worldwide monitoring network of seafloor sensors using the existing subsea infrastructure.