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Powerful societal and intellectual reasons for new strategies to study the ocean basins

The oceans are the planetary flywheel for our global climate and the underlying boundaries of tectonic plates are the loci for the formation and ...

Contributions from the burning of fossil fuels have pushed levels of carbon dioxide—a greenhouse gas—to change more rapidly over ...

Because of its enormous biodiversity, the oceans offer huge potential for the discovery of new drugs. While we have systematically tapped terrest ...

Massive deposits of frozen methane in the form of methane hydrate lie buried within the ocean sediments and may be a future ener ...

Powerful societal and intellectual reasons for new strategies to study the ocean basins ...