Tag: ocean
Chinese rocket crashed over the Indian Ocean
Published: Less than 40 min ago full screen Parts of a Chinese space rocket that was launched on Sunday have fallen back to earth. Archive image. Photo: Li Gang/AP/TT Parts…
A strange creature surprised at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean
This sea cucumber, a Peniagon vitrea, is one of the oldest known species inhabiting the ocean floor. It was discovered in 1870 and recently observed by a team of researchers.…
These footprints aligned at the bottom of the ocean intrigue scientists
While exploring around the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the depth of the ocean exceeds one kilometer, researchers came across an amazing phenomenon: a series of holes dug at regular intervals in…
Blue biotechnology: what is it?
With green biotechnologies, red biotechnology and the white biotechnologiesthem blue biotechnologies (also called marine biotechnologies) constitute a particular category of biotechnologies. They use marine resources (essentially algae and micro-algae) as…
Complete mystery on these lines of regular holes discovered at the bottom of the ocean
While exploring around the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the depth of the ocean exceeds one kilometer, researchers came across an amazing phenomenon: a series of holes dug at regular intervals in…
Fukushima: Japan will discharge contaminated water into the ocean
The government had announced it in 2021, but this time the plan to reject contaminated waters of Fukushima has just been approved by the Japanese nuclear safety authority. These waters…
The bottom of the Atlantic Ocean was 20°C 50 million years ago!
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“The rising waters are inexorable”: in La Rochelle, stay the course facing the ocean
Withdrawn thus a few tens of meters from the coast, under an azure blue sky, the Atlantic Ocean seems harmless. It is almost noon and at the very end of…
50 million years ago, the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean was at 20°C!
You will also be interested [EN VIDÉO] Interview: is there a maximum temperature? Since there is a minimum temperature that represents the almost absolute immobility of atoms or molecules (-273.15°C),…
Quarter of ocean floor mapped – World News
Well-crafted seafloor maps help with navigation and environmental protection, among many other uses. About 10 million square kilometers of new bathymetric (depth) data were added last year. This is roughly…