Final dust settles slowly in the deep sea. ‘Dust clouds’ at the bottom of the deep sea, that will be created by deep-sea mining activities, descend at a short distance […]
Changing climate creates more noise in the oceans. Due to the changing climate, the underwater world is getting ever noisier. That is the main conclusion of a study that was […]
Microbes don’t descend with plastic particles into the deep-sea. Research has shown that microbes on floating plastic particles can be transported over long horizontal distances. New research carried out by […]
Importance of science-based data in an exploration of deep-sea mining. The wrap-up of the ‘Blue Nodules’ project shows the importance of science-based data in the much-debated exploration of deep-sea mining. […]
Scientists research Caribbean reefs. A group of scientists from NIOZ (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research), MARUM (Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen) and ZMT (Bremen) […]
Scottish bottlenose dolphins seen off Dutch coast. A recent unique sighting for the North Holland coast involved Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research scientist Jeroen Hoekendijk and fellow researchers from […]