#ocean trenches

[voltronshorts]

Can I please get hcs for a female reader asking Lance for advice on how to confess her feelings to Allura bc I’m just a useless lesbian in love lmao thanks <33

The slyest, widest grin spreads across Lance’s face as soon as you ask

“Well, well, well. You’ve come to the right place. I happen to be the master of seduction.”

Gives you all his best pick-up lines

A L L

Buckle up and take notes, because man are you in for a RIDE

“Alright. And you gotta show off. Crack out your best moves. Just sweep her off her feet so hard her earrings fly off. Well, not really, but that’s what we’re going for.”

If Allura happens to overhear, she’ll just be a blushing mess

Probably won’t confront you about it and let you come to her with the pick-up lines she knows you’ve practiced over and over

“Hey Princess, King Alfor should have named you Princess All-ayesee because you’re All-ayesee… Quiznak, that was bad, can I start over?”

She giggles

Oh she’s laughing what do I do–

You take her hands gently and spin her around before dipping her. Lance chucks a rose from his hiding spot across the room and into your mouth (he ain’t a sharpshooter for nothing, you know)

You inhale. “Oh, lovely Princess of Altea, will you humour me this one starlit night so that I may gaze into your kaleidoscopic eyes and lose myself in their fathomless ocean trenches, ocean trenches I could only dream of explorin–Lance, this is a whole goddamn soliloquy!”

(Well you really shouldn’t have expected anything other than a soliloquy à la Romeo Montague when asking for dating advice from Lance)

You straighten up and remove the rose from your mouth. “Sorry about that, Princess. I shouldn’t have put you through that. Now I’ve made everything awkward. I’m sorry”

She slides a finger under your chin to guide your gaze to hers. “Well, I thought it was very cute.” She plants a kiss on your cheek

At this point, all you can see and feel and hear is Allura

“And if the offer still stands, I would love to humour you on this one starlit night.”

[rjzimmerman]

'Extraordinary levels' of pollution have contaminated even the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean

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Industrial pollution has reached even the most remote corners of Earth: the deepest part of the sea.

Scientists have discovered “extraordinary levels” of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, in the Mariana and Kermadec trenches, two of the deepest ocean chasms on the planet.

“Trenches have been considered as pristine environments, but also (given their locations and topography) as likely sinks for contaminants that enter the marine environment,” Alan Jamieson, a marine ecologist at Newcastle University in England, wrote this week in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Banned in the 1970s, PCBs were once widely used as dielectric and coolant fluids in transformers, capacitors and other electrical devices. About 1.3 million tons of the chemical was produced, and an estimated 35% of that is now residing in coastal sediments, according to the study.

Known as persistent organic pollutants, these contaminants do not degrade naturally and can stick around in the environment for decades. The chemicals bond with bits of plastic and other kinds of organic debris, and are transported in air, soil and coastal waters. They've even been found in the Arctic, far from industrialized areas.

The study found elevated concentrations of contaminants, including flame retardants, in the upper portions of the trenches, about 4.5 miles deep. But amphipods with the most pollutants came from the Mariana Trench, possibly because the chasm is located closer to industrialized regions and beneath the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Plastic debris and dead animals contaminated with industrial chemicals sink into the ocean, where they’re eaten by the amphipods.

The PCBs and flame retardants found in the trenches can have “devastating effects on the hormonal, immune and reproductive systems,” wrote Katherine Dafforn, an ecotoxicologist at the University of New South Wales, in an article accompanying the study.

[mazingamazingly]

Peru-Chile Trench: The Shocking Abyss Beneath South America

The Peru-Chile Trench stretches approximately 5,900 kilometers along South America's western coast, making it one of Earth's longest oceanic trenches. At its deepest point — the Richard's Deep — the trench plunges to about 8,065 meters below sea level, nearly the height of Mount Everest inverted. Th

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Peru-Chile Trench: The Shocking Abyss Beneath South America

The Peru-Chile Trench stretches approximately 5,900 kilometers along South America's western coast, making it one of Earth's longest oceanic trenches. At its deepest point — the Richard's Deep — the trench plunges to about 8,065 meters below sea level, nearly the height of Mount Everest inverted. Th

Read the full story →

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Peru-Chile Trench: The Shocking Abyss Beneath South America

The Peru-Chile Trench stretches approximately 5,900 kilometers along South America's western coast, making it one of Earth's longest oceanic trenches. At its deepest point — the Richard's Deep — the trench plunges to about 8,065 meters below sea level, nearly the height of Mount Everest inverted. Th

Read the full story →

[mazingamazingly]

Peru-Chile Trench: The Shocking Abyss Beneath South America

The Peru-Chile Trench stretches approximately 5,900 kilometers along South America's western coast, making it one of Earth's longest oceanic trenches. At its deepest point — the Richard's Deep — the trench plunges to about 8,065 meters below sea level, nearly the height of Mount Everest inverted. Th

Read the full story →

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Deep Ocean Trenches Host Radioactive Carbon From Nuclear Bomb Tests - The Daily Catch

Radioactive carbon released into the atmosphere from 20th-century nuclear bomb tests has reached the deepest parts of the ocean, new research finds.