A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it ...
Deep-sea mining is threatening vital marine life in the ocean’s “twilight zone,” reveals new research. The findings raise “urgent concerns” about long-lasting effects if large-scale commercial mining ...
Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have ...
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First study of its kind finds deep-sea mining waste threatens life and foodwebs in the ocean's dim 'twilight zone'
A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...
Deep-sea mining targets mineral deposits on the ocean floor, typically at depths of 3,000–6,000 meters. Most attention focuses on polymetallic nodules—potato-sized rocks lying on abyssal plains—and on ...
An ocean-mining company has funded some of the most comprehensive scientific studies of the deep seabed to date, and peer-reviewed results have begun to emerge. A collage of foraminifera, a kind of ...
Georgia de Leeuw received funding from Forskraftstiftelsen Theodor Adelswärds Minne, the Lars Hierta Memorial Foundation, the Royal Swedish Agricultural Academy, and Letterstedtska föreningen for ...
Deep-sea mining is threatening vital marine life in the ocean’s “twilight zone,” reveals new research. The findings raise "urgent concerns" about long-lasting effects if large-scale commercial mining ...
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