This week’s post, There is Plenty of Oil, generated a heated discussion about the finer points of peak oil and oil reserves. In line with…
View More Offshore Oil Deposit Holds Out on the Human RaceMonth: February 2007
Big Day for Science, Bad Day for Hagfish
First time a hagfish has been collected from a vent.
View More Big Day for Science, Bad Day for HagfishFriday Deep-Sea Picture (02/16/07)
DSN Valentine Kate Winslet reminds me of mermaids. Were they ever so beautiful…? She is shown here hunting giant squid. Photo by Annie Leibovitz, in…
View More Friday Deep-Sea Picture (02/16/07)Genome For An Endosymbiont
Fig. 1. A circular representation of the R. magnifica genome. The innermost circle highlights genes of special interest: cbb (Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle, red), sox (sulfur oxidation,…
View More Genome For An EndosymbiontVoracious Deep-Sea Squid
The film captured the squid, Taningia danae, in action: 1 The squid swims towards the bait; 2 It spreads its arms wide; 3 It swims…
View More Voracious Deep-Sea SquidBooks of the Ocean, One Accurate and One Not
Proper preparation for deep-sea research requires a great deal of equipment, which can cost hundreds of thousands of money. Happily, due to government ignorance and…
View More Books of the Ocean, One Accurate and One Not25 Million Dollar Earth Challenge
Former Vice President Al Gore joined airline tycoon Richard Branson today to announce a $25 million prize to the first person to come up with a way of scrubbing greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere in the battle to
beat global warming. Today, he joined Richard Branson, the British magnate, adventurer, and now eco-entrepreneur, in announcing the Virgin Earth Challenge, a $25 million bounty Mr. Branson is offering for any scientist or team who can figure out a way to pull the most significant heat-trapping gas, carbon dioxide, directly out of the air.
Sea Monsters Explained
So we all know that seamonsters are whale wedding tackle. Joe Nickell over at the Skeptical Inquirer discusses the “Mysterious Enitites of the Pacific Northwest”. …
View More Sea Monsters ExplainedWalking Fish
From 120m in the North Sea. A frogfish maybe from the genus Antennarius
View More Walking FishWWF does it again
The “panda-people” at World Wildlife Fund are promoting a recent success protecting deep-water habitats in the “coral-rich waters off north-west Scotland”. It makes me laugh…
View More WWF does it again