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Plow tracks are still clearly visible on the seafloor of the DISCOL area 26 years after the disturbance. Credit: ROV-Team/GEOMAR
Deep-seabed mining lastingly disrupts the seafloor food web
October 9, 2020

The deep sea is far away and hard to envision. If imagined, it seems like a cold and hostile place. However, this remote habitat is directly connected to our lives, as it forms an important part of the global carbon cycle.

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University of Adelaide researchers say heating of oceans could disrupt healthy marine food webs around the world. File photo of Houtman Abrolhos Islands, Western Australia. Photograph: Alamy
Marine food webs could be radically altered by heating of oceans, scientists warn
August 14, 2020

Heating of the world’s oceans could radically reorganise marine food webs across the globe causing the numbers of some species to collapse while promoting the growth of algae, new research has warned...In the research, published in the journal Science, researchers at the University of A

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