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Bright Blue "Lava" Spews From Indonesia’s Kawah Ijen Volcano

IFL Science 22 Mar 2023

Advertisement. Why is the Ijen lava blue? ... Image credit. Mazur Travel / Shutterstock ... There are reports of blue flames appearing during a forest fire at Yellowstone National Park, US, where the sulfur surrounding the hydrothermal vents caught alight ... These flames are also caused by hydrothermal vents and sulfur springs inside the depression.  ... .

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Newly-Discovered Volcanic Plume-Dwelling Bacteria Boost Prospects For Life Within Icy Moons

IFL Science 20 Mar 2023

At tectonic plate boundaries in the deep ocean, hot minerals spew into the water from hydrothermal vents ... Prior to investigations by Dr Massimilano Molari and co-authors, it was only known from low-oxygen environments such as immediately around hydrothermal vents ... Aurora’s hydrothermal vents (red arrow) at Gakkel Ridge (Central Arctic).

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Saturn’s Wet Moon Enceladus May Be Rapidly Flinging Microbes Into Space, Say Scientists

Forbes 19 Mar 2023

Particles containing evidence of like likely released by deep-sea hydrothermal vents is being flung into space through huge cracks in the icy moon's surface. And it's happening fast ... .

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What most Americans fear, 4-H’ers do for fun

The Citizens 19 Mar 2023

Through the Georgia 4-H Project Achievement process young people develop leadership, creativity, public speaking, record keeping, and other skills. On Feb ... Presentation topics ranged from arctic wolves to the history of chocolate to hydrothermal vents ... Newton County was represented by four 4-H’ers who had prepared for months ... Recommended for you. +70 ... .

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A 'fire wolf' fish could expand what we know about one unusual deep-sea ecosystem

Sott 17 Mar 2023

Instead, geochemical activity gives the Scar lukewarm water that enables organisms from both traditionally colder seeps and scalding hot hydrothermal vents to call it home.

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Uncrewed Ocean Mapping Vehicle Closing Gaps in Remote Waters

The Maritime Executive 17 Mar 2023

Alaska’s coastline is approximately one-third of the entire US coastline, far longer than that of any other US state or territory ... To the unknown and back ... Preliminary data revealed unprecedented detail of the Aleutian arc seafloor, including previously unknown structures, some of which indicate potential hydrothermal vents ... ‍ ... ....

photo: USGS / Patrick Kelley, U.S. Coast Guard

File - Blue sky begins to break through the clouds over melting Arctic Ocean ice Sept. 9, 2009.

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High Seas Treaty: What does it mean for business?

GreenBiz 09 Mar 2023

"If you look at habitats like hydrothermal vents, seamounts that are linked with fisheries and mining licenses — they are incredibly biodiverse," he said. "You have organisms that actually photosynthesize from the heat of the hydrothermal vent, that work physiologically on sulphur ...

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The high seas are supposed to belong to everyone: New UN treaty aims to make ...

Phys Dot Org 08 Mar 2023

Yet a big chunk of it has been left largely unmanaged ... A new research frontier ... The extreme conditions for life in the open ocean have nurtured a rich diversity of survival strategies, from the bacteria that thrive in the extremely hot hydrothermal vents of the deep sea to icefish that breed in the intense cold of the Southern Ocean off Antarctica.

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The high seas are supposed to belong to everyone – a new UN treaty aims ...

The Conversation 07 Mar 2023

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Weird creatures living beneath ocean could hold key to finding alien life

Citizen Tribune 06 Mar 2023

It will search for unusual kinds of hydrothermal vents – seabed fissures that emit geothermally heated water – and the strange forms of life they host ... "When people think of hydrothermal vents, they often picture 'black smokers.' ... glimpses of any new creatures found near vents.

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Drugs from the deep: Scientists scour oceans

The Manila Times 04 Mar 2023

"You don't.". With tight budgets and little support from big pharma, scientists often piggyback on other research expeditions ... "The more we look, the more we find," said Jaspars, whose lab specializes in compounds from the world's extreme environments, like underwater hydrothermal vents and polar regions. Natural origins ... New frontiers ... ....

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A case against anthropogenic climate change Part 3

Principia Scientific 04 Mar 2023

1) ... 2) ... Fig ... Fig ... Part 2 of this series demonstrated that changes in GF have resulted in increases of ocean floor heat flux from ~60 mW/m2 (average ocean floor) to ~160 mW/m2, that is increases on the order of 0.1 W/m2, as well as increased submarine volcanics and hydrothermal venting, which locally increase power densities by multiple orders of W/m2.

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There's Evidence of Hydrothermal Vents in The Oceans of Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus

TheNewsHOOK 03 Mar 2023

There's Evidence of Hydrothermal Vents in The Oceans of Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus ....

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Is this the best chance of finding aliens in our solar system? Minerals on the ...

The Daily Mail 03 Mar 2023

Although the satellite's surface is freezing cold, experts know there is a lot of activity going on beneath it, in part because of the discovery of hydrothermal vents in its vast, underground ocean that could provide the heat needed to give life a chance ... via hydrothermal vents.

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Differences remain as talks to protect high seas enter final day

Al Jazeera 03 Mar 2023

Hydrothermal vents – or fissures on the seabed – are rich in minerals necessary for the batteries that are essential in the age of renewable energy, while marine genetic resources are thought to be precious sources of information that could unlock the secrets of life ... North-South ‘equity’ ... .