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80 years later, a World War II ship pollutes the North Sea.
Researchers at Belgium’s Ghent University have discovered several WWI shipwrecks along the North Sea seabed. They found metals and chemicals that have the potential to affect the environment. The team, which will be developing a decision-making tool to asses the potential environmental risk a war-time shipwreck poses, also discovered shipwrecks that were almost fully intact,…
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After 26 years, the mystery of the blip near Titanic was solved.
The ‘North Sea Wrecks’ project aims to investigate wrecks located across the North Sea seabed. Researchers said that the data collected by the project will help policy makers decide the best steps in dealing with the wrecks and protecting its ecosystem. In the Belgian part of the North Sea, located just one of thousands of…