Massive underwater eruption may preview deep-sea mining destruction
Enlarge / Following the 2022 Hunga volcano eruption, a nearby hydrothermal vent was seen coated with a white mat of bacteria and surrounded by a thick layer of ash. The vent usually supports animal ...
Count salmon. Get paid. Expect grizzlies
Weirs are an essential tool for getting accurate counts of the state’s critical salmon runs. They can also create prime ...
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Humpback whales make custom fishing nets – out of bubbles
To target the tiny prey they depend on, humpbacks have developed a way of trapping them with nets made out of bubbles. A new ...
Truck Driver Survives Plunge Into Freezing Ocean In Alaska
A semi truck driver drove his truck off the side of the Seward Highway and ended up in the freezing waters of the northern ...
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Ohio company's work breaks new ground — and Alaskan ice — with fiber optic device
Between them is a stainless-steel chamber that holds each strand of a fiber optic cable — up to 48 of them, each thinner than ...
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Lawsuit claims fishery managers have failed to adequately protect Alaska’s coral gardens
The underwater image was captured on the Dickins Seamount during a 2004 research cruise in the Gulf of Alaska. A new lawsuit ... acidification caused by the ocean’s absorption of atmospheric ...
Popular Science29d
Humpback whales use bubble-nets as ‘tools’
“It is this behavioral flexibility and ingenuity that I hope will serve these whales well as our oceans continue ... whales in SE Alaska, collecting data on their underwater movements ...
Penn Live28d
Billions of crabs suddenly died in ocean around Alaska. Things may get worse
The plummeting population of snow crabs off of Alaska’s shores shocked fishermen and scientists alike in 2022. Now, scientists believe they have more evidence for a bleak explanation about the ...
CNN17d
How long do we have until sea level rise swallows coastal cities? This fleet of ocean robots will help find out
A team of NASA rocket scientists is developing autonomous underwater robots able to go ... into the icy waters of the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska to gather data at 100 feet deep.
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Humpbacks are among animals who manufacture and wield tools
“We deployed non-invasive suction-cup tags on whales and flew drones over solitary bubble-netting humpback whales in SE Alaska, collecting data on their underwater movements,” shares co-author ...
USA Today23d
'Beloved' father who was clearing storm drains identified as victim of Alaska landslide
An Alaska community is mourning the loss of a father who died in the Sunday landslide that left three others injured and prompted dozens of homes to evacuate. Land detached from a hillside in ...
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Humpbacks are among animals who manufacture and wield tools, researchers say
"We deployed non-invasive suction-cup tags on whales and flew drones over solitary bubble-netting humpback whales in SE Alaska, collecting data on their underwater ... well as our oceans continue ...