deep sea mining

Deep-Sea Mining: How impactful is it to sound in the ocean, really?

Rob Williams, Christine Erbe, Alec Duncan, Kimberly Nielsen, Travis Washburn, Craig Smith. Noise from deep-sea mining may span vast ocean areas. Science,…

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What does the deep sea sound like?

Researchers based out of Japan show that deep-sea habitats sound distinct from both shallow water, coastal habitats, and from one…

Human impacts

The high seas: where fishing meets mining

New research out of the University of Hawaiʻi considers how spatially overlapping anthropogenic impacts in the high seas may have…

Conservation

Protecting the unknown: how scientists are evaluating conservation efforts in undescribed areas of the deep sea

Large areas of the seafloor are designated for deep-sea mining, but much of this seascape has not been sampled or…

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Are we ready to mine the seafloor?

Are we ready to mine the seafloor? Effects evident even after 26 years.

deep sea

Hotspots of geology, biology, and economic interest

There is growing interest to exploit the resources of deep-sea hydrothermal vents to support the demand for electronic manufacturing. We…

deep sea

Into the deep: Deep sea mining is upon us, whether you would risk it or not

While we have a lot to discover about the deep sea, we do know that in the depths of the…

Conservation Ecology Human impacts Volcanoes

Stop: Recovery Time!: Using volcanoes to model recovery of deep-sea communities

Deep sea communities are full of weird and wonderful animals that we don't know much about, and human demand for…