tagged w/ sea floor
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Latest update on the BP Gulf oil spill. Also, not included in the update: they have halted drilling the relief wells...Latest update on the BP Gulf oil spill. Also, not included in the update: they have... more
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Fortunately, this operation has been put on hold because the economy tanked. However...what happens when it picks up again? Are we going to allow corporations, large and small to destroy a part of our planet we know so little about?
From the article:
The company will, of course, leave behind a damaged seafloor—but the environmental costs, too, will be less, Nautilus insists, than those of a comparable mine on land.
In strip-mining a bit less than 30 acres of seafloor, Nautilus will consume hydrothermal chimneys and wipe out the clusters of snails and barnacles, crab and shrimp that are nourished by their sulfide emanations."
This only addresses the immediate sea life. What about all of the other life that depends on this volcanic vent?
I sincerely hope this operation, and others like it never come to fruition. Obviously man has learned so little and could care less, for this this planet that sustains us.
She's going to get pissed off one of these days and scratch at us as we have scratched at her.
And that will be the end of humankind.Fortunately, this operation has been put on hold because the economy tanked.... more
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SANTA CRUZ, California — Seafaring microbes and a room full of robots may be the key to the next big pharmaceutical breakthrough.
Two new compounds, one that kills the parasites that cause African sleeping sickness and one that destroys breast cancer cells, have surfaced in an automated lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A direct pipeline from the ocean to chemical-scanning robots makes it possible for researchers to screen thousands of unstudied chemicals each day.
“These marine sediments could contain the next big anti-cancer drug,” said chemist Scott Lokey, who runs the UC Santa Cruz Chemical Screening Center.
The sea is teeming with microbes, fungi and invertebrates, which produce and use chemicals for everything from defense to communication. Natural compounds are a huge source of inspiration for pharmaceuticals, but most marine chemicals remain unexplored.SANTA CRUZ, California — Seafaring microbes and a room full of robots may be the... more
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Initial reports of Medvedev's address to Russia's national security council suggested he was advocating unilateral action to secure Arctic territory at a time when the five polar nations -- including Canada -- are collecting geological data for planned sea floor territorial claims under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Initial reports of Medvedev's address to Russia's national security council... more
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Canada's latest bid to assert sovereignty in the Arctic -- a sea floor mapping mission in the Beaufort Sea -- got under way
Canada's latest bid to assert sovereignty in the Arctic -- a sea floor mapping... more
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