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Mowi Chile has launched the country’s first floating solar pen at its Huar Norte salmon farm. The marine energy system combines photovoltaic panels with batteries and power controls. According to project partner AKVA group, renewable energy is expected to supply about 57% of the site’s electricity needs. The installation is designed to reduce the farm’s…
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A 2016 Oceanography study documented sharks and other marine life inside the active crater of the Kavachi submarine volcano in the Solomon Islands. Cameras lowered into the crater during a rare quiet period recorded silky sharks, scalloped hammerheads, bony fish and microbial communities living amid volcanic emissions. The discovery presented researchers with an ecological puzzle.…
A study in Science has put a surprising new contender near the top of the Cretaceous ocean food chain. Researchers studying fossilized jaws from Japan and Canada report that Nanaimoteuthis haggarti, an ancient octopus relative, may have reached about 19 meters in length. The estimate places the animal in the same size range as some…
Researchers at UT Austin have reported fossilized microbial wrinkle structures in 180-million-year-old deep-water rocks from Morocco, pointing to ancient life that may have flourished in darkness. The finding, described in a study in Geology, suggests that some microbial communities left traces in places where scientists have rarely expected them to survive or fossilize. The discovery…
