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allatsea.bsky.social
A moratorium⏸️ on #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ would provide the necessary time and space for nations to effectively coordinate, uphold their legal obligations and honour commitments to safeguard the ocean, its biodiversity and its resources for current and future generations.

🦑 www.rsgs.org/blog/deep-se...
Deep-Sea mining and ocean protection
Director of the Seabed Mining Project Julian Jackson looks at growing international efforts to protect the ocean, recent developments at the UN Ocean Conference, and the mounting debate over whether d...
www.rsgs.org
October 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
allatsea.bsky.social
Norway's plan to mine the arctic waters put on ice for at least a year. #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️

(Ban? Deep-Sea Mining #BDSM)

🦑https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/norway-stop-deep-sea-mining-says-party-supporting-minority-government-2024-12-01/
Norway to stop deep-sea mining, says party supporting minority government
The ocean floor has metals in high demand as nations transition from fossil fuels.
www.reuters.com
December 2, 2024 at 9:29 AM
allatsea.bsky.social
Here's a great explanation of what a "Digital Twin" is (and isn't), and importantly the limitations and risks associated with using a digital twin approach to "adaptively manage" #DeepseaMining🪸⛏️

(Adequate biological baseline 🦑 missing)

REPORT: dsm-campaign.org/wp-content/u...
dsm-campaign.org
November 14, 2024 at 9:39 AM
allatsea.bsky.social
Multi-year expedition to get to bottom of #DarkOxygen 🌌mystery!!

Premature to consider #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️, given this & other outstanding Q's we have about this fragile ecosystem.

🦑https://www.newscientist.com/article/2465191-dark-oxygen-new-deep-sea-expedition-to-explore-mysterious-discovery/
Dark oxygen: New deep sea expedition to explore mysterious discovery
The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team behind it is launching a new project to confirm and explain the findings
www.newscientist.com
January 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
allatsea.bsky.social
This piece outlines the environmental risks and deep inequalities that #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ threatens to precipitate.

A great example of how technical doesn't have to be dry from @eshirin.bsky.social -and one of the last pieces from the now-archived Hakai Magazine.

hakaimagazine.com/news/how-exa...
How, Exactly, Could Deep-Sea Mining Benefit All of Humanity? | Hakai Magazine
A tiny working group within the International Seabed Authority is wrestling with a daunting question.
hakaimagazine.com
January 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
bd-stew.bsky.social
Literally nothing is safe from the reach of #trumpageddon 🤯 #deepsea #deepseamining 🪸 ⛏️ ☠️
April 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
allatsea.bsky.social
The challenges of policing #DeepseaMining🪸⛏️ on the #Highseas🌊

link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Navigating Challenges in Inspection, Compliance and Enforcement (‘ICE’) for Deep-Seabed Mining Beyond National Jurisdiction
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) and its member States are required to ensure compliance with the regulations they adopt to govern deep-seabed mineral activities beyond national jurisdiction, ...
link.springer.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
allatsea.bsky.social
Perfect Friday commute viewing🚌:

18min documentary on polymetallic nodules and the risks associated with mining the deep ocean:
#DeepSeaMining 🪸⛏️
#Marinescience 🦑
#scicom 🥼

📺: youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?...
Nodules: Deep-Sea Life Giver or Key to Our Energy Future?
YouTube video by Scientific American
youtu.be
September 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
allatsea.bsky.social
Excellent scrolly resource from @CarbonBrief for anyone interested in #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️

#scicom #defendthedeep🦑

interactive.carbonbrief.org/deep-sea-min...
Q&A: What does deep-sea mining mean for climate change and biodiversity loss?
The deep sea has emerged as a new mining frontier in the global race towards energy security, with countries vying to explore and exploit its reserves of metals, such as nickel, copper, cobalt and man...
interactive.carbonbrief.org
July 31, 2024 at 8:34 PM
allatsea.bsky.social
Two areas being targeted for #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏ in the Pacific Ocean are home to dolphins and threatened whales, a new scientific survey reveals.
🐬🐳🐋

🦑https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/06/25/greenpeace-survey-finds-beautiful-and-vulnerable-whale-species-in-areas-marked-for-deep-se
Threatened whale species found in areas earmarked for deep sea mining
Vulnerable marine life is getting caught in the crosshairs of our electrifying world, the new study suggests.
www.euronews.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:09 PM
allatsea.bsky.social
#DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ discharge can disrupt midwater food webs

NEW PAPER

🦑https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65411-w
Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs - Nature Communications
Deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may release waste into midwaters that support diverse marine life. This study finds such discharges could dilute key food particles and disrupt trophic l...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
allatsea.bsky.social
"Don't believe the shiny hype about batteries in a rock on the seafloor"

Informative #DeepSeaMining 🪸 ⛏️ podcast on Spotify 🎧 !

🦑https://open.spotify.com/episode/1J5uiodW5iorKGjdrPaSEt?si=jgNuxTiCTha4Eio9S_JDFw
The Global Race for Critical Minerals—And the Fight Over the Ocean Floor
Global Insights · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 28, 2024 at 9:27 AM
allatsea.bsky.social
Happy #BiodiversityDay🌱 folks!

Don't forget the #DeepOcean 🐙is the world’s largest and oldest environment that provides critical services that keep the rest of the planet healthy...

…but this ancient biodiversity threatened by #DeepSeaMining 🪸⛏️

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Calls for Moratorium Grow as Deep-Seabed Mining Threat Looms
The deep sea provides a huge reservoir of biodiversity and helps to regulate the earth’s climate in ways scientists are only beginning to understand. Despite researchers’ limited knowledge of the deep...
t.co
May 22, 2024 at 1:20 PM
allatsea.bsky.social
“how bioprospecting – the search and discovery of potential products from animals, plants and microbes – could serve as a less destructive alternative to deep-sea mining”
#DefendTheDeep🐙 #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️
#MarineConservation🐟 #MGR🧬

theconversation.com/the-deep-sea...
The deep sea is a potential gold mine – so long as we don’t mine it
A new database documents 16,000 proteins from deep-sea organisms that could yield new inventions.
theconversation.com
October 7, 2024 at 10:25 AM
allatsea.bsky.social
WEBINAR: Examining possible legal claims from the International Seabed Authority's first #deepseamining🪸⛏️ decision

🗓️Wednesday, 12 March
🕑2pm GMT

REGISTER🦑: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Heading for dispute? Examining possible legal claims from the ISA’s first mining decision. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about jo...
The International Seabed Authority (ISA), the intergovernmental body in charge of governing the management of mineral-related activities in international waters, is at a critical juncture as it may fa...
us02web.zoom.us
March 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
allatsea.bsky.social
Wastewater plumes full of heavy metals are just one of numerous worrying and unknown issues about #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️.

A new study “finds elevated copper levels in a simulated waste plume, which could be toxic to mesopelagic communities🦑.”

🔗:
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
July 8, 2024 at 10:07 PM
andreasbrocza.bsky.social
🐙🐚🪸⛏️ #DeepSeaMining #Tiefseebergbau
christinalu.bsky.social Christina Lu @christinalu.bsky.social · Apr 28
Trump has officially jump-started U.S. efforts to mine the seafloor, pitching the US into the center of a contentious debate that has sparked fears of a race to the bottom in the world's oceans @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/28/t...
Trump’s Risky Push to Mine the Ocean Floor
The U.S. leader could pave the way for a gold rush in international waters.
foreignpolicy.com
April 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
allatsea.bsky.social
"despite two weeks of intensive negotiations, these gaps remain, and it is unrealistic to expect them to be resolved in the near future."

Clear that regulations are not going to address risk of #Deepseamining🪸⛏️, moratorium required.

www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...
Calls for Moratorium Grow as Deep-Seabed Mining Threat Looms
The deep sea provides a huge reservoir of biodiversity and helps to regulate the earth’s climate in ways scientists are only beginning to understand. Despite researchers’ limited knowledge of the deep...
www.pewtrusts.org
May 19, 2024 at 9:05 AM
allatsea.bsky.social
John Oliver addresses the perils of #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️

n.b. NSFW!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW7C...
Deep-Sea Mining: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
November 14, 2024 at 8:00 AM
allatsea.bsky.social
The rush to mine the deep ocean and why we are nowhere near ready:

#DeepseaMining 🪸⛏️ #Oceanpolicy🦑
www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/new...
The World Currently Lacks the Ability to Govern Deep-Sea Mining
Despite continued negotiations in 2024, the regulatory framework meant to govern commercial-scale deep-sea mining is still years from being finalized by members of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the United Nations-affiliated body tasked with governing the mineral resources of the ocean floor in international waters.
www.pewtrusts.org
February 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
allatsea.bsky.social
🚨New study🚨: holistic approach for considering mining and #deepseamining🪸⛏️ impacts on biodiversity🐙.

🔗https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.17334
Comparing environmental impacts of deep‐seabed and land‐based mining: A defensible framework
Global Change Biology is an environmental change journal tackling issues such as sustainability, climate change and environmental protection.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 28, 2024 at 8:07 PM
allatsea.bsky.social
“Disturbances like these have the potential to disrupt ecosystems, extending far beyond the discharge depth.”

Alexus Cazares-Nuesser on the risks of #Deepseamining🪸⛏️ to the water column:

🦑 theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
A planned mining method to gather critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes higher up in the water column where many creatures live.
theconversation.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
allatsea.bsky.social
"Opening the ocean frontier will neither halt nor reduce terrestrial mining for nickel and cobalt. Extraction will continue on land, with associated biodiversity loss"

Important & timely article on #deepseamining 🪸 ⛏️

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#MarineLife 🦑 #CriticalMinerals 🪫
Metal mining on land versus the ocean in the context of the current Biodiversity Crisis - npj Ocean Sustainability
As climate change and biodiversity loss intensify, the deep seabed beckons as a source of metals for batteries. Initiating this new exploitation conflicts with international agreements to decelerate b...
www.nature.com
March 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
allatsea.bsky.social
Excellent scrolly-explainer about the perils and questionable necessity of #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️

h/t @theguardian.com #scicomm 🦑
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As countries scramble for minerals, the seabed beckons. Will mining it be a disaster? – visual explainer
Mining companies are poised to mine the deep sea – but opposition is growing. What is the environmental cost, and are these metals actually needed?
www.theguardian.com
March 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
allatsea.bsky.social
NEW STUDY: Polymetalic nodules -the target of DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️- have been shown to produce oxygen!!!

Just the latest in what we don’t know about the deep ocean!! 🦑

www.newscientist.com/article/2440...
Shock discovery reveals deep sea nodules are a source of oxygen
Sea-floor nodules raise oxygen levels in the deep ocean, suggesting they may have a valuable role in ecosystems and adding to concerns about the impact of deep-sea mining
www.newscientist.com
July 22, 2024 at 6:21 PM