Highly active bacteria community found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench (SAMS, AWI, Nature Geoscience)
An iron fertilization experiment by nature: scientists assess the impact of Icelandic volcanic ash on ocean biology (NOC, Geophysical Reseach Letters)
Tunicates could be used as a renewable source of biofuel, claim researchers at University of Bergen and Uni Research
Smooth seafloor at Southwest Indian Ridge is composed of altered mantle rocks exhumed by faults (CNRS, Nature Geoscience)
Algae from melting arctic ice sinks to the sea floor causing rapid ecosystem changes (AWI, Science)
Life deep within the oceanic crust appears to be sustained by energy released from chemical reactions between rocks and water (Ifremer, MARUM, Science)
Worm steals food from a cold water coral but helps the coral builds its skeleton, a symbiosis of mutual benefits (NIOZ , PLOS One)
Seasonal patterns in planktonic metabolism in the European Arctic (CSIC, Biogeosciences)