More information: Iason-Zois Gazis et al, Monitoring benthic plumes, sediment redeposition and seafloor imprints caused by ...

Deep-sea operations proposed by a Vancouver-based mining company could cause harm to a wide variety of species in the Pacific ...

Monitoring benthic plumes, sediment redeposition and seafloor imprints caused by deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining. Nature ...

Deep-sea mining in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean could harm ocean life including whales and dolphins, new research shows ...

Monitoring benthic plumes, sediment redeposition and seafloor imprints caused by deep-sea polymetallic nodule mining. Nature Communications , 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56311-0 Cite This ...

The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote ...

The minerals that are being targeted form a critical part of the sea floor, and the sea floor is what life attaches to in the ...

03/05/2025 12:31 Footprints of Deep-Sea Mining: New Study Examines the Spread of Deep-Sea Mining Sediment Plumes Ilka Thomsen Kommunikation und Medien GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel ...

Companies are preparing to move forward with seabed mining, but a method for gathering critical minerals from the seafloor ...

If future deep-sea mining operations release sediment plumes into the water column, as proposed, the debris could interfere with animals’ feeding, disrupt food webs and alter animals’ behaviors.

(THE CONVERSATION) Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure. This is the midwater zone, a hidden ...