Researchers have found the highest levels of microplastic ever recorded on the seafloor, with up to 1.9 million pieces in a thin layer covering just one square meter. …read more Source:: Science
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Variations in seafloor create freak ocean waves
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•Researchers have found that abrupt variations in the seafloor can cause dangerous ocean waves known as rogue or freak waves — waves so catastrophic that they were once thought to …read more Source:: Science
New Greenland maps show more glaciers at risk
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•New maps of Greenland’s coastal seafloor and bedrock beneath its massive ice sheet show that two to four times as many coastal glaciers are at risk of accelerated melting as …read more Source:: Science
High tsunami danger in Alaska, perhaps elsewhere
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•Scientists probing under the seafloor off Alaska have mapped a geologic structure that they say signals potential for a major tsunami in an area that normally would be considered benign. …read more Source:: Science