A black rock that fell over New Jersey in July 2024 reached scientists in unusually clean condition and that speed preserved evidence that often disappears on Earth. Researchers studying the Hillsborough meteorite found signs that salt-rich water once moved through its parent asteroid, along with a diverse set of organic compounds that can illuminate chemistry…
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The stakes of a century-old expedition story have come into focus on the floor of the Labrador Sea. A July 8 announcement from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reports the first close-up images of Quest, the final ship of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton. Cameras on the human-occupied submersible DSV Alvin…
Researchers at the Second Institute of Oceanography report that the season of a marine heatwave can strongly shape the ocean’s productivity response. Their study, published July 9 in Communications Earth & Environment, maps a sharper split across the Southern Hemisphere during austral summer. Warm spells were linked with lower net primary production in low and…
NOAA Ocean Exploration’s July 9 announcement opens a larger window onto life far below the ocean surface. The agency has placed biological occurrence annotations from NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer expeditions into the Ocean Biodiversity Information System, called OBIS and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, or GBIF. The July release brings observations and samples from three…
