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Ready for launch: the mission to find alien life on Jupiter’s icy moons

The eight-year, £1.4bn voyage into deep space will explore the frozen oceans of Ganymede, Europa and Callisto

The Guardian - UK · Apr 9, 2023

A Biomedical Engineer is About to Spend 100 Days in a High-Pressure Seabase — Here’s Why

In seabases, the effect of hyperbaric pressure is more pronounced than a submarine, and could reveal what happens to our bodies under extreme conditions.

Inverse · Apr 8, 2023

‘Headed off the charts’: world’s ocean surface temperature hits record high

Scientists warn of more marine heatwaves, leading to increased risk of extreme weather

The Guardian - AU · Apr 8, 2023

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Louder · Apr 7, 2023

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is carrying a massive bloom of brown seaweed toward Florida and the Caribbean

An unwelcome visitor is headed for Florida and the Caribbean: huge floating mats of sargassum, or free-floating brown seaweed. Nearly every year since 2011, sargassum has inundated Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and Florida coastlines in warm months, peaking in June and July. This brown tide rots on the beach, driving…

The Conversation · Apr 7, 2023

Arctic’s peak ice cover has shrunk by an area larger than Egypt

Sea ice covered 5.64 million square miles of the Arctic Ocean at the ice’s peak extent this year in early March. That’s almost 400,000 square miles less than the median coverage level at other March peaks between 1981 and 2010, according to the National Snow & Ice Data Center at…

Tribune News Service · Apr 7, 2023

A crucial date for deep-sea mining in the Pacific is just around the corner, but is the world ready?

With applications set to open for companies to mine the depth of the Pacific ocean, leaders call for a suspension to the controversial practice.

ABC News · Apr 6, 2023

OPINION - I am incandescent about plans to strip mine the precious ocean floor

What’s the weirdest thing you’ve stumbled across on the internet recently? Mine is the Wikipedia page about the time Australia declared war on emus. And lost.

Evening Standard · Apr 6, 2023

The untapped power of ocean winds – why New Zealand is looking offshore for future renewable energy

The latest synthesis report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes it clear we need to prepare for intensifying impacts, while also cutting emissions dramatically.

The Conversation · Apr 6, 2023

Seven escape injury in plane crash off WA coast

A pilot and six passengers have escaped injury after their light plane crashed off the end of the runway into the ocean at a remote island off the WA coast.

AAP · Apr 6, 2023