Despite opposition investors are still looking at deep-sea mining technology.

Estimates of marine plastic pollution vary widely ... The Indian research team warns that upcoming deep-sea mining projects could add even more plastic to the CIOB. India is among several nations ...

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

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

The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when researchers revisited it in 2023 compared ...

Kiel. 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 ...

The agreement represents a shift in the initiatives at one company in concert with other global brands and nations concerned ...

The resolution said experts had also raised concerns that large-scale mining in deep-sea areas could lead to the destruction of corals, sea urchins and crabs, further threatening marine biodiversity.

How would mining affect deep-sea wildlife? Could mining the ocean actually make climate change worse? At present, there’s no consensus on whether deep-sea mining would be better or worse for the ...

Greenpeace activists protest against Norway's plan to allow deep sea mining as Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre ... habitats of sea species as well as from potential noise and light pollution from the ...