
Evrim Yazgin
Australian science journalist at CSIRO Publishing (Cosmos/ConnectSci) with a physics masters from the University of Melbourne.
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Mar 12, 2026
The first Arctic explorers: ancient communities thrived in harsh environments
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Evrim YazginGUEST
The Palinia we're talking about is the North Water Palinia, but the local Inuit word for it is Pikiala Sosuwak.

Evrim YazginGUEST
In the local language, it means the great upwelling in the Kalahlisut language, which is the language that they speak in Greenland.

Evrim YazginGUEST
So when you think about Arctic seas and oceans, these fairly barren, frigid, difficult places to live.
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David BoldemanHOST
so speaking of things moving around moving nutrients from the sea to the land and actually surviving off the sea in that oasis you spoke about how did they manage that and what were they doing what were they taking and what tools do they have to help them with that
Earth's alien ocean
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David BoldemanHOST
Why are we only now able to see them and, and suddenly this level of detail? Uh, what's the story of the technology or how are we able to do this?

Evrim YazginGUEST
Yeah, so I think it is a story of technology and, and actually being able to create machines which can withstand the pressure.

Evrim YazginGUEST
I mean, there have been attempts to send humans into the deep sea, some successful, some not so successful, tragically.

Evrim YazginGUEST
Uh, but with remote, uh, technology which can be piloted remotely, um, or which can be autonomous, you actually have the ability now, just within the last few decades, to see more of the deep ocean than previously was possible.

Evrim YazginGUEST
It's also driven in part by mining and other, uh, kinds of industrial, uh, uh, uh, attempts to see what's going on deep down.

Evrim YazginGUEST
I wrote another article about some research which was done in the Pacific, uh, at about 4,000 meters, uh, related to, to the mining industry and looking at the impact of mining on deep sea ecosystems.

David BoldemanHOST
Does this change how we think about those planets and life that could exist on those, and how difficult is it gonna be for us to ever work out if there is life in these places? Almost impossible, isn't it?