Johhny Blades for Radio New Zealand Nauru’s government is being urged to halt its reported push to allow deep sea mining in international waters by 2024. Read the full article here: Nauru urged to reverse deep sea mining push
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Todd Woody for Bloomberg Green DeepGreen built a nearly $3 billion valuation on the dream of gently excavating the ocean floor. Now environmentalists want to block its plans to go public. Read the full article here: A Mining Startup’s Rush for Underwater Metals Comes With Deep Risks
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D. Raghunandan for NewsClick Last week, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved a Deep Ocean Mission proposed by the Ministry of Earth Sciences at a cost of Rs 4,077 crore over a period of five years, with funding of Rs 2823.4 crore for the first three years (2021-24). An allocation of Rs.4,000 crore had earlier been […]
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Elham Shabahat for Hakai Magazine The clock is ticking on the International Seabed Authority to finish its new exploitation regulations for deep-sea mining. Read the full article at Hakai Magazine: A Mining Code for the Deep Sea
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Paul Moore for International Mining In an industry first, the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has awarded China Merchants Industry (CMI) Approval in Principle (AIP) for its deep-sea mining system design. Read more: American Bureau of Shipping gives design approval to Chinese deep-sea mining system
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Grace Lima for Papua New Guinea Post-Courier The campaign against deep sea mining in the Bismarck Sea by the Alliance of Solwara Warriors (ASW) still continues. Read more: Campaign Against Deep Sea Mining Continues
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Nerijus Adomaitis for Reuters Norway’s oil and gas reserves have made it one of the world’s wealthiest countries but its dreams for deep-sea discovery now centre on something different. Read more: Norway eyes sea change in deep dive for metals instead of oil
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Pippa Neil for Environment Journal The majority of the revenue extracted from the world’s oceans belongs to just 100 transnational corporations, according to new analysis conducted by researchers at Duke and Stockholm University. Read more: Majority of ocean revenue is dominated by just 100 companies
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Carly Cassella for Science Alert Before we start mining for precious metals in the darkness of the deep sea, we might try switching on the light first and observing our surroundings. In this seemingly isolated abyss, deeper than 3,000 metres (9,800 ft) below sea level, scientists were able to coax a massive swarm of 115 […]
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Richard Fisher for the BBC At the base of the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from land, there are some curious marks on the seafloor that no animal could have made. Some of them look like narrow troughs carved into the pale silt. Others could be claw marks, gouged through the ecosystems of the deep […]
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