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Trying to Grasp the Financial Model

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The Financial Model, the mechanism by which the ideals built into the founding principles of the ISA—that mineral resources in the high seas are...
A snail relocation experiment near Solwara I. Photo courtesy Nautilus Minerals.

Is this the end of Nautilus Minerals?

The view from the Council Chamber. Photo by author.

From the Editor: Notes from the 25th Session.

Delegates gather during an informal meeting. Photo courtesy ISA.

The Five Most Talked about Moments from the ISA Council Meeting

A polymetallic nodule from the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone, purchased from an online dealer. 

Nodules for sale: tracking the origin of polymetallic nodules from the...

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A polymetallic nodule from the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone, purchased from an online dealer. 
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Nodules for sale: tracking the origin of polymetallic nodules from the...

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You can buy a 5-lb bag of polymetallic nodules from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone on Amazon, right now.

Colossal Advancements in Accessible Deep-Ocean Technology

Patania II, courtesy DEME.

Global Sea Mineral Resources unveils the Patania II nodule collector

Policy Spotlight

A polymetallic nodule from the Clarion Clipperton Fracture Zone, purchased from an online dealer. 
Business

Nodules for sale: tracking the origin of polymetallic nodules from the...

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You can buy a 5-lb bag of polymetallic nodules from the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone on Amazon, right now.
Cut rock samples from the Rio Grande Rise show Fe-Mn crusts (black and gray) growing on various types of iron-rich substrate rocks (pale to dark brown). Photo credit: Kira Mizell, USGS.

A lost continent rich in cobalt crusts could create a challenging...

Polymetallic Nodule and Sulphide Mining to Scale

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Regulating deep sea mining

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Secretary-General Micael Lodge for the Economist | 2 April 2019 Deep sea mineral exploration is one of the most...
Future marine sanctuaries? Image: Greenpeace

This is what a planet-wide network of ocean sanctuaries could look like

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Emma Charleton for World Economic Forum | 10 April 2019 What comes to mind when you think of...

Directors exit seabed mining company

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Radio New Zealand | 9 April 2019 Last week, Nautilus Minerals had its common shares delisted from the...
high seas treaty

First ever high-seas conservation treaty would protect life in international waters

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Alex Fox for Science | 3 April 2019 No flag can claim the high seas, but many nations...
Cooks legislation

PNG seabed mining company delisted from stock exchange

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Radio New Zealand | 1 April 2019 The company behind a troubled deep sea mining project in Papua...
Venting fumeroles just from the crown of Godzilla hydrothermal vent. Ocean Networks Canada.

Deep-sea mining: regulating the unknown

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Amber Cobley for The Ecologist | 15 March 2019 If you ask someone to describe the deep sea, the...
A new species of the sea-anemone-like Relicanthus clings to a sponge stalk on the floor of the Pacific Ocean.Credit: D. J. Amon & C. R. Smith

Bus-size robot set to vacuum up valuable metals from the deep sea

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Paul Voosen for Science | 14 March 2019 Sometimes the sailors' myths aren't far off: The deep ocean really...
A polymetallic nodule. (Image: Nautilus Minerals)

Deep seabed mining: key questions

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Jessica Aldred for chinadialogue ocean | 26 February 2019 What is deep sea mining? It’s...
A crustacean looking out from within a deep sea octocoral, 1,150m beneath the Gulf of Mexico. (Image: NOAA)

The future of deep seabed mining

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Jessica Aldred for chinadialogue ocean | 24 February 2019 It’s one of the coldest, darkest places on earth,...

The perils of mining the deep

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Matthew Gianni and Sian Owen for The Economist World Ocean Initiative | 11 February 2019 The deep seabed...
Mushroom soft coral with feeding polyps extended on the Davidson Seamount, at 1,470m below. Some deep sea corals can live for several thousand years, making them the oldest organisms on the planet. (NOAA)

Species threatened by deep-sea mining

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Ned Pennant-Rea for chinadialogue ocean | 28 February 2019 The UN has described the deep sea as “the...
The remotely-operated Hercules searches for deep sea fauna. (Image: NOAA)

We should explore the deep ocean, not mine it

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Diva Amon for chinadialogue ocean | 4 March 2019 Human activity is transforming the planet and the deep...

Environment

Fig 3. Examples of metazoan megafauna photographed at the APEI6 seafloor during AUV survey. Scale bars representing 50 mm. (a) Actiniaria msp-6. (b) Actiniaria msp-13. (c) Bathygorgia cf. profunda. (d) Abyssopathes cf. lyra. (e) Left: Chonelasma sp.; right: Hyalonema sp. (f) Cladorhiza cf. kensmithi. (g) Bathystylodactylus cf. echinus. (h) Nematocarcinus sp. (i) Sabellida msp-1 (polychaete). (j) Left: Freyastera sp.; right: Caulophacus sp. (k) Psychropotes cf. longicauda. (l) Benthodytes cf. typica. (m) Coryphaenoides sp. (n) Typhlonus nasus. o and p: probable new Mastigoteuthis sp. Same specimen photographed with different cameras: (o) vertical view; (p) oblique view (Image taken ∼1″ prior to the vertical shot).
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A year of discovery in the deep sea

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2018 was a banner year for studies highlighting the importance of hydrothermal vents not just to the highly specialized communities that thrive...

Mapping the online conversation around Deep-sea Mining.

Plastic ice bag found by a NOAA expedition to the Marianas in 2016. Image: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research

Microplastics in The Deep Ocean

Science Briefs

Advanced spatial planning models could promise new era of sustainable ocean development
Science Brief

Advanced spatial planning models could promise new era of sustainable ocean...

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FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY | 5 March 2018 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Earth's vast oceans brim with potential for commercial activities ranging from tourism to shipping to...
"I think this is a particularly useful approach when we think of new and emerging uses," Sarah Lester said. "There's a trend toward new ocean industries -- whether it's aquaculture, alternative energy or deep sea mining -- that could make great use of this approach."
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