Grist25m
The deep-sea mining industry got tired of waiting for international approval. Enter Trump.
At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.
Eco-Business14m
Seabed authority raises concern over unilateral actions by mining firm
The International Seabed Authority has raised concerns over The Metals Company’s bid to bypass multilateral oversight by ...
Deep-Sea Mining Threatens Sea Life In A Way No One Is Thinking About
This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that begins 650 feet below the ocean surface and sustains life across our ...
IFLScience on MSN9d
In 1979, A Deep-Sea Mining Experiment Carved Up The Seabed. 44 Years On, We're Finding Out Its Impacts
The world needs more batteries. That’s what we keep hearing in the push for greener energy, and we can’t build enough to meet ...
4,000 Meters Below Sea Level, Scientists Have Found the Spectacular 'Dark Oxygen'
A study analyzing these modules reveals that these rocky lumps are capable of producing “dark oxygen” 4,000 meters below sea ...
New Atlas1d
The deep blue sea might soon become a mining frontier
Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far, both because it's awfully hard, and because governments haven't yet firmed up ...
Deep sea mining impacts visible for 'many decades'
Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...
Houston Chronicle7d
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
As an oceanographer studying zooplankton in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, I am concerned about the impact of deep-sea mining on this ecologically important midwater zone. This ecosystem is home to ...
The world has no rulebook for deep-sea mining. One company is pushing forward anyway
Countries have debated for decades whether to allow mining on the ocean floor, a potential trove of critical minerals. Now, a ...