Searchers believe they have found the wreck of an Australian passenger ship which sank north of New Zealand in 1918 after hitting a German mine. The Wimmera sank on June 26 when a mine laid by the German raider Wolf blew off its stern north of Cape Reinga and near the Three Kings. Twenty-six people, [...]
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Bottom trawling is laying waste to the precious ecosystems of the deep sea. Sigourney Weaver calls on delegates of the UN to take immediate action to stop this destruction. Roadmap to recovery: Take Action! Visit the Greenpeace website.
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 3, 2010) — For 80 years it has been accepted that early life began in a ‘primordial soup’ of organic molecules before evolving out of the oceans millions of years later. Today the ‘soup’ theory has been over turned in a pioneering paper in BioEssays which claims it was the Earth’s chemical energy, [...]
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American scientists say they have found evidence of hydrothermal vents on the seafloor between New Zealand and Antarctica. Hydrothermal vents spew heated fluids – often containing dissolved minerals such as gold, zinc, and copper – with the plumes from the vents influencing influence ocean chemistry and providing a source of energy for a complex web [...]
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