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A journey to the bottom of the oceans - all five of them Lucinda Robb, The Washington Post Dec. 18, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail "Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All Five of the World's Oceans" By Josh Young - - - Tired of being stuck at home? Maybe what you need right now is to escape somewhere that the coronavirus, political polarization and devastating natural disasters are nowhere to be found. But where on Earth could you find such a place? Simple: at the bottom of the ocean. Fortunately, Josh Young's "Expedition Deep Ocean: The First Descent to the Bottom of All F...

Turning the tide Named after a zoological noun describing aquatic animals that can swim against a current, Nekton is valiantly trying to turn the tide via scientific exploration and protection of the ocean. You see, the not-for-profit research foundation believes in using data to achieve protected status for at least 30% of the world’s oceans by 2030. Currently, only 8% of the ocean is part of a designated marine protected area (MPA). Of this, only 2.5% of the world’s oceans are in fully or highly protected MPAs. The team of marine experts and scientists collect biological samples from a ...