Imagine a place on our planet so vast, so mysterious, that it has no owner. Picture a realm teeming with bizarre life forms, where sunlight never shines and the pressure would crush a submarine like a ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

The International Seabed Authority (ISA) has worked for more than a decade to draw up regulations for a future deep-sea mining industry. Those efforts continued this week as negotiators from ...

Deep Sea Mining Impacts Still Felt Forty Years On ... be allowed to extract metals like copper or cobalt from the ocean floor. As they deliberate over hundreds of proposed amendments to a 256 ...

mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious metals such as nickel and cobalt can be found in potato-size nodules sitting on the ocean floor. Beneath the Pacific ...

Their residence attracts shrimp, fish and many other creatures. These deep-sea oases are just some of many areas of the ocean floor that scientists are only beginning to explore, discovering new ...

An experiment from 1979 to mine the deep sea has provided a rare opportunity to see how ... Even so, there are still two clear lines where the machine cut through the sea floor scooping up the ...

Advertisement Advertisement Deep-sea mining is the process of extracting metals and minerals—including nickel, cobalt, and copper—from the sea floor. The minerals are found in several places ...

The study is entitled, Long-term impact and biological recovery in a deep-sea mining track after 44 years. Mining vehicle tracks from 1979 on the Pacific Ocean floor Heriot-Watt marine biologist ...

mining companies are turning their attention to the deep sea, where precious metals such as nickel and cobalt can be found in potato-size nodules sitting on the ocean floor. Deep-sea mining ...

"This latest evidence makes it even more clear why governments must act now to stop deep sea mining before it ever starts," said Greenpeace campaigner Louise Casson. While few expect a final text ...