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Luke McMillan

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The Deep Brief #42 | 30 May 2026

Last week, this newsletter covered a study that found the deep basins of the central Arctic Ocean almost empty of fish. Echo sounders returned near-silence. Trawl nets came up with almost nothing. The researchers called it a biological dese...

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Five Months On, Papua New Guinea Still Cannot Say What Is Killing Its Ocean

A government agency’s own preliminary report reveals the investigation into New Ireland’s marine crisis cannot determine the cause.

In early March, I was added to a WhatsApp group of 300 scientists, journalists, and campaigners trying to w...

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The Deep Brief #41 | 23 May 2026

On the journey from Svalbard toward the North Pole, the research vessel Kronprins Haakon carried echo sounders and trawl nets designed to detect and collect fish. The instruments scanned the water column from the surface to 500 metres below...

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The Slow Win

Arsenal won the English Premier League last night, and they weren’t even playing.

They were watching Manchester City draw 1-1 at Bournemouth, and when the whistle went, the title was theirs. Twenty-two years of waiting, confirmed by someon...

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The Deep Brief #40 | 9 May 2026

Somewhere off the Ningaloo coast of Western Australia, in a submarine canyon that drops to more than four and a half kilometres, a giant squid shed a few cells into the surrounding seawater. It may have brushed against a rock, expelled wast...

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