Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Management International) Biogeoscientists show evidence of 90 billion tons of microbial organisms -- expressed in terms of carbon mass -- living in the deep biosphere, in a research article published online by Nature, July 20, 2008.

The rarest marine dolphin in the world down to 111 individuals following decades of entanglement in fishing nets - is to receive protection over more of its range from the New Zealand government ...