Mining Company Seeks Trump Support to Shortcut Access to Seabed Metals
Mining companies and the Trump administration want the metals to boost manufacturing. Environmentalists and some countries ...
The most important part of the ocean you’ve never heard of
The Saya de Malha Bank is one of the world’s largest seagrass fields and the planet’s most important carbon sinks. It faces incalculable risks that threaten the future of humanity.
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Deep-sea mining impacts marine life for decades
Marine ecosystems in the deep ocean show little sign of recovery even decades after experimental mining, according to new ...
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Deep sea mining affects marine biodiversity for decades, warn scientists
Rare-earth elements are crucial for electric batteries and devices, mining of which can lead to destruction of marine biodiversity, the study claims. Proper research has to be conducted into this to ...
Alarming Discovery: Human Trash Found at Deepest Point of the Mediterranean Sea
The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...
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The weirdest ways scientists are mining for critical minerals, from water to weeds
While the ability to pull enough minerals from these sources to power the energy transition is still a long way off, ...
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Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed
“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...
Researchers find active volcanic hotspot in Cook Islands seabed
Researchers have discovered a potentially younger and active volcanic hotspot beneath the Cook Islands' waters, prompting ...
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about: By dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.
Trump wants Greenland. But much of the island is vanishing
The Greenland ice sheet makes up 80 percent of the world’s largest island. And, it’s melting thanks to human-caused climate ...
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Department of Earth Sciences
The Earth Sciences contribute to answers on a wide range of societal and economic questions in areas such as: the natural means of existence (water, raw materials, the energy transition), the ...