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Evrim Yazgin

Evrim Yazgin

Australian science journalist at CSIRO Publishing (Cosmos/ConnectSci) with a physics masters from the University of Melbourne.

Mar 12, 2026

4:27
how are they changing it?
4:29
So what it's based on is something called Palinia.
4:34
The Palinia we're talking about is the North Water Palinia, but the local Inuit word for it is Pikiala Sosuwak.
4:43
I hope I did that justice.
4:46
In the local language, it means the great upwelling in the Kalahlisut language, which is the language that they speak in Greenland.
4:55
Polyneas are kind of like oases in deserts, only they're in the open ocean.
5:00
So when you think about Arctic seas and oceans, these fairly barren, frigid, difficult places to live.

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10:26
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
6:57
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?
7:04
Yeah, so I think it is a story of technology and, and actually being able to create machines which can withstand the pressure.
7:10
I mean, there have been attempts to send humans into the deep sea, some successful, some not so successful, tragically.
7:18
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.
7:35
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.
7:46
Um, but what we're seeing is that there is this explosion of life down there.
7:52
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.
9:02
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?

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