Wednesday, 27 February 2019

Stuck on you (for millions of years): Organic matter on oceanic minerals

Organic matter makes up life, and also feeds it! There is a lot of organic matter buried in sediments worldwide, but for some reason it doesn’t all get eaten by starving microbes. Here we look at a study that used cutting edge techniques to examine some of this uneaten organic matter from deep-sea sediments, and […]

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Melting Sea Ice and Drooping Corals

This blog was written by Ruth Teichroeb, a former journalist and communications professional at Oceans North and Ocean Conservancy. She is b...