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Illuminating deep-sea considerations and experimental approaches for mCDR propo...

As society recognizes the urgency of reducing atmospheric CO2 levels, industries and nations are increasingly considering marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) in their climate mitigation portfolios. The deep sea (defined as depths below 200 m) is the storage site for removed carbon for most mCDR technologies [1, 2] because, here, carbon is out of contact with the atmosphere on societally relevant timescales (>1...

Deep-sea ecosystems of the North Atlantic Ocean: discovery, status, function an...

The North Atlantic is an ocean basin with a diversity of deep-sea ecosystems. Here we provide a summary of the topography and oceanography of the North Atlantic including the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea, provide a brief overview of the history of scientific research therein, and review the current status of knowledge of each of 18 pelagic and benthic deep-sea ecosystems, with a particular focus on knowledg...

A global horizon scan of issues impacting marine and coastal biodiversity conse...

The biodiversity of marine and coastal habitats is experiencing unprecedented change. While there are well-known drivers of these changes, such as overexploitation, climate change and pollution, there are also relatively unknown emerging issues that are poorly understood or recognized that have potentially positive or negative impacts on marine and coastal ecosystems. In this inaugural Marine and Coastal Horizo...

Environmental protection requires accurate application of scientific evidence

A decade to study deep-sea life

The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development presents an exceptional opportunity to effect positive change in ocean use. We outline what is required of the deep-sea research community to achieve these ambitious objectives.

A blueprint for an inclusive, global deep-sea ocean decade field program

The ocean plays a crucial role in the functioning of the Earth System and in the provision of vital goods and services. The United Nations (UN) declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The Roadmap for the Ocean Decade aims to achieve six critical societal outcomes (SOs) by 2030, through the pursuit of four objectives (Os). It specifically recognizes the scarcity of biolo...

Deep-sea misconceptions cause underestimation of seabed-mining impacts

Scientific misconceptions are likely leading to miscalculations of the environmental impacts of deep-seabed mining. These result from underestimating mining footprints relative to habitats targeted and poor understanding of the sensitivity, biodiversity, and dynamics of deep-sea ecosystems. Addressing these misconceptions and knowledge gaps is needed for effective management of deep-seabed mining.

Past and future grand challenges in marine ecosystem ecology

Frontiers in Marine Science launched the Marine Ecosystems Ecology (FMARS-MEE) section in 2014, with a paper that identified eight grand challenges for the discipline (Borja, 2014). Since then, this section has published a total of 370 papers, including 336 addressing aspects of those challenges. As editors of the journal, with a wide range of marine ecology expertise, we felt it was timely to evaluate research...