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New Eyes on One of the Planet’s Largest Submarine Landslides

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 22 December 202522 December 2025

Researchers have mapped the ancient Stad Slide off the coast of Norway to better understand what triggered it, and the hunt is on for the tsunami it might have unleashed.

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Submerged Crater near Europe Tied to an Impact

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 20 September 202515 December 2025

New subsurface imaging and rock samples suggest that Silverpit Crater formed from an impact that occurred roughly 45 million years ago.

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WWII Ordnance Is Polluting the Baltic Sea

Javier Barbuzano, Science Writer by Javier Barbuzano 4 April 202515 December 2025

Discarded explosives were dumped into the Baltic and North seas after World War II. Their deadly legacy is still with us.

Colorful multibeam bathymetry shows pits likely created by porpoises on the seafloor. Some pits have merged together to create bigger conjoined pits.
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Mysterious Seafloor Pits May Be Made on Porpoise

by Andrew Chapman 15 February 202415 December 2025

Some shallow seafloor depressions off the coast of Germany that look like those associated with methane might instead be the work of porpoises.

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