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Untrawled and trawled seafloor, Tasmanian seamount corals, Australia. Photos: Tony Koslow, CSIRO
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Untrawled and trawled seafloor, deep Oculina Reefs, Florida. Photos: R.Grant Gilmore, Dynamac Corperation, Lance Horn, UNC Wilmington. |
- Dragnet - Bottom Trawling, the World’s Most Severe and Extensive Seafloor Disturbance February 14, 2008
Bottom trawling, an industrial fishing method that drags large, heavy nets across the seafloor stirs up huge, billowing plumes of sediment on shallow seafloors that can be seen from space...
- New Research Reveals Shark Superhighways and Hotspots
Insights can inform urgently needed shark conservation strategies Available: February 18, 2008
The world’s sharks are disappearing. These fearsome yet charismatic fish continue to fall victim to overfishing and many are now at risk of extinction as a result. New research shows that open-ocean sharks are particularly threatened from overfishing, and other work shows that the deeper sharks live, the longer it takes for their populations to recover...
- Ocean Iron Fertilization and Carbon Sequestration: Can the Oceans Save the Planet? Available: February 18, 2008
Over the past decade, the issue of global climate change has moved from a scientific possibility to a political reality. As scientific evidence of climate change has mounted, so has the political pressure to consider approaches to help mitigate the magnitude and rate of change and to reduce the scale of environmental impacts...
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