Check out the top stories from the deep, taken from coverage between 8 – 14 August 2022
14 August, 2022
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25 July, 2022
Press Release
Six years after the adoption of the EU deep-sea fishing Regulation that prohibited bottom trawling below 800 meters in EU waters, the EU has finally adopted an ‘Implementing Act’ to begin closing coldwater coral and other biologically diverse deep-sea vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) below 400 meters depth to bottom fishing.
Civil society welcomes this long-awaited protection of VMEs. The adopted protective measures are, however, already under threat.
Continue reading Civil society urges immediate action to protect fragile deep sea ecosystems
28 June, 2022
7 June, 2022
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition have passed the milestone of 100 member organisations, all working to safeguard the health of our planet’s blue heart, the deep ocean.
Our latest members include, KYMA Sea Conservation and Research, Sustainable Ocean Alliance, TBA21 and The Ocean Foundation.
We are hugely grateful to all of our member organisations for their hard work, passion and commitment to defend the deep.
1 March, 2022
Source: Island Times
Author: Leilani Reklai
Pacific Elders’ Voice (PEV) called for a halt to deep-sea mining mining until “proper regulatory instruments can be put in place,” and recommends a regional expert body be created to provide expert advice to Pacific Island countries.
29 January, 2022
Source: Radio France Inter
This week on France Inter radio, Presidential candidate Yannick Jadot calls for seabed protection.
Continue reading French presidential candidate calls for seabed protection
20 October, 2020
Source: Science News
Author: Maria Temming
Things are heating up at the seafloor.
Thermometers moored at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean recorded an average temperature increase of about 0.02 degrees Celsius over the last decade, researchers report in the Sept. 28 Geophysical Research Letters. That warming may be a consequence of human-driven climate change, which has boosted ocean temperatures near the surface (SN: 9/25/19), but it’s unclear since so little is known about the deepest, darkest parts of the ocean.
Continue reading Even the deepest, coldest parts of the ocean are getting warmer
16 October, 2020
Source: ScienceDaily
Author: University of Bristol
The fossilised remains of ancient deep-sea corals may act as time machines providing new insights into the effect the ocean has on rising CO2 levels, according to new research carried out by the Universities of Bristol, St Andrews and Nanjing and published today [16 October] in Science Advances.
Continue reading Deep sea coral time machines reveal ancient CO2 burps
15 October, 2020
Source: Science News for Students
Author: Stephen Ornes
Last October, a team of marine explorers sent Hercules — a remote-controlled vehicle — to the bottom of the ocean. Its mission: to visit an octopus neighborhood. It was off the coast of central California, near an undersea volcano. Late one night, after scanning a long stretch of empty seafloor, Hercules’ spotlight and camera revealed a parade of curious creatures. First was a slender bottom-feeder called an eelpout. It was half-buried in the sediment. Then came a sea pig — a squishy thing that looks like a living pink balloon, but with tentacles.
Continue reading Whales get a second life as deep-sea buffets
1 October, 2020
Source: Hakai Magazine
Author: Judith Lavoie
In the northeast Pacific, the upper 3,000 meters of water has lost 15 percent of its oxygen over the past 60 years, and the top 500 meters is simultaneously becoming more acidic at an unprecedented rate, a study by Fisheries and Oceans Canada scientists has found.
Continue reading British Columbia’s Seamounts Are Becoming Uninhabitable