Arctic river deltas store 5% of world's frozen carbon
University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute
Published: 8 June 2026
An international team analyzed over 1,600 soil samples from 17 Arctic river deltas, finding they store 57.5 gigatonnes of carbon on just 1% of permafrost surface, and are threatened by multiple climate stressors.
Keywords: Arctic, permafrost, carbon storage, river deltas, climate change, Nature Communications, soil carbon
Newly discovered whale necropolis enhances understanding of deep-sea ecology
Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering
Published: 10 June 2026
Scientists document the world's deepest and largest whale fossil aggregation in the Diamantina Zone, spanning 1,200 km at depths up to 7,001 m. The 5.3-million-year-old site includes 476 fossil cetaceans and five active whale-fall ecosystems.
Keywords: whale falls, deep sea, Diamantina Zone, fossils, cetaceans, paleontology, submersible, Indian Ocean, hadal zone
URI researchers collaborate on effort to map biodiversity on Indonesia's unexplored seamounts
University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography
Published: 28 May 2026
International collaboration using ROVs, submersibles, and environmental DNA sampling generates some of the first systematic biodiversity data from tropical seamount ecosystems in Indonesia, providing baseline data for conservation.
Keywords: seamounts, Indonesia, biodiversity, deep-sea exploration, ROV, eDNA, marine ecology, BRIN
