India-Norway Task Force on Blue Economy for Sustainable Development inaugurated

Published: February 19, 2020

The India-Norway Task Force on Blue Economy for Sustainable Development was recently inaugurated by India’s Earth Sciences Minister- Harsh Vardhan and Norway’s Minister for Climate and Environment. The two countries also started a new framework for cooperation in ‘Integrated Ocean Management & Research’. The task force was introduced in January 2019, jointly by the Prime Ministers ..

Topics: Blue economy • Earth Sciences • Ministry of Earth Science • Norway • Ocean • Sustainable Development

Oil-Eating microbes discovered in Mariana Trench

Published: April 19, 2019

UK researchers have discovered a type of bacteria that has the ability to eat compounds that are similar to those found in oil at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. This is the first time that scientists have discovered a concentration of this bacteria in the Mariana Trench. According to the scientists, these microbial deep ..

Topics: Bacteria • Bodies of water • Extreme points of Earth • Extremophile • Landforms • Mariana Trench • Microbiology • Ocean • Oil spill • Philippine Sea • Physical geography • Subduction zones

Underwater Robot gives rare glimpse beneath Antarctic sea ice

Published: December 22, 2016

Remotely Operated Vehicle sent down by scientists of the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) has captured a rare glimpse beneath the Antarctic sea ice through a small hole drilled in the ice. It also recorded the acidity, oxygen, salinity and temperature of the seawater in the area. The footage captured by the robot reveals a productive, ..

Topics: Aquatic ecology • Carbon dioxide • Chemical oceanography • Climate forcing agents • Greenhouse gases • Ocean • Ocean acidification • Oceanography • Physical geography • Physical sciences • Salinity • Sea

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