You know, moving away from fossil fuels means building a lot of new infrastructure, and deep-sea mining could provide some of the materials to do that. But it could also come at a cost to the ...

Their mandate is to determine how — and whether — to allow the nations of the Earth to mine the sea. The cold floor of the deep ocean is a place human beings know very little about.

There's no rulebook for deep-sea mining. Companies want to push forward anyway Daniel Ackerman March 27, 2025 / 6:07 am ...

The mining companies’ justification for deep-sea mining is based on a big lie— that we need deep-ocean minerals for electric car batteries and the transition to green energy. We don’t.

A discussion of deep-sea mining of critical minerals on the ocean floor, the importance of critical minerals for the clean energy transition, the global and national approaches to regulating the ...

In 1979, a deep-sea mining experiment in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) left a lasting mark on the seabed. Decades later, a groundbreaking study published in the journal Nature, co-led by the ...

Deep Sea Mining Isn’t a Viable Climate Solution 6 minute read Activists take part at a "Look Down action" rally to stop deep sea mining outside the European Parliament in Brussels on March 6, 2023.

Protestors call for a moratorium on deep-sea mining on June 7, two days before the start of the United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France. Communications Inc.

Under a treaty governing the deep sea floor, the international agency overseeing these areas could be forced to approve provisional mining there as soon as spring 2023, but several countries and ...

Courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2019 Southeastern U.S. Deep-sea Exploration Gautama Mehta Published Aug 15, 2024 Topic Climate + Oceans ...