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Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first century,” Steve Bannon, who served as chief strategist early in President ...
As autonomous underwater vehicles become more capable and satellite communication improves, the Arctic Ocean is emerging as a key frontier for exploring the largely unmapped seafloor. With only about ...
The use of whale songs to map the ocean floor represents a beautiful confluence of biology, acoustics, geology, and advanced computing—a true interdisciplinary triumph in modern ocean science. By ...
The Arctic Ocean is experiencing some of the world's most drastic warming from climate change. In recent years, scientists have measured dwindling ice cover as record high temperatures inch up and up.
A groundbreaking seafloor map of the Arctic Ocean reveals an area twice the size of France, part of the global Seabed 2030 project. This discovery enhances understanding of the ocean's mysteries ...
A new seafloor map reveals an area in the Arctic Ocean twice the size of France and six times the size of England. This addition contributes to the Seabed 2030 project, which aims to map the entire ...
By Victoria Heath. By 2030, a collaborative project aims to have entirely mapped the world’s seafloor. Launched in 2017, the initiative – known as Seabed 2030 – has now come closer to that goal, ...
Beneath the Arctic sea floor, vast amounts of methane are trapped as ice-like, solid mixtures of gas and water called hydrates, which are stored in the sediment and constantly fed by gas from below.
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Diversity of novel hydrothermal vent styles on the Arctic ocean floor. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 12 / 241219152212.htm ...
A recent study published in the journal Elementa highlights the urgent need to protect this sensitive ecosystem as human activity in the region intensifies.. The deep Arctic and its untapped resources ...
12/02/2024 December 2, 2024. Norway has temporarily halted the licensing process to permit Arctic seabed mining for critical metals. Meanwhile the WWF's court case against the state continues.