Researchers guided these probes to depths ranging from 5,200 to 5,700 meters, where they confirmed the presence of dense rare mineral nodules. These nodules are believed to have formed over ...

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...

Coastal communities in Kerala oppose offshore mining due to environmental concerns, risking traditional livelihoods and ...

Since 2015, the European JPI Oceans project MiningImpact, coordinated by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, has been investigating the potential environmental impacts of deep-sea ...

Independent researchers from the MiningImpact project and the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources ...

The widespread utilization of chest CT scans has increased the importance of the proper evaluation of incidentally found lung nodules. The primary goal in the evaluation of these nodules is to ...

The polymetallic nodules contain valuable minerals such ... of Nature (IUCN), deep-sea mining is the process of retrieving mineral deposits from the deep sea, which is at a depth of 200 metres ...