✨The #DeepSea lives in a "delayed Anthropocene".⏳ Less touched, less altered - a rare exception on a changed planet.🌍 But that window is closing. #DeepSeaMining and marine carbon dioxide removal #mCDR could soon rewrite this story. 🛑 🌊 For once, we still have time to choose care over damage.

The #Trump administration is signaling once again that rules, caution and global cooperation don’t matter. Now it's the #DeepSea that is on the line. Time to #KeepItInTheSeabed and #DefendTheDeep!

For the first time ever, we finally have real rules for the ocean’s “Wild West”. It’s legally binding as of last weekend, and the real work is just getting started. Treaty unlocked - now let’s make it count! 💙📜 #HighSeas #BBNJ #BBNJAgreement #OceanTreaty #HighSeasTreaty #BlueLeaders

Time for #Belgium to step up its game in order to become a true #BlueLeader! www.linkedin.com/posts/simon-...

🚫⚓ Guam says no thanks to #DeepSeaMining motherships dropping anchor in their waters and ports! They are right! This island isn’t a playground for seabed extractors 🚢❌. Time to show some love for reefs, fishers and future generations! 🐟 #KeepItInTheSeabed #HowDeepIsYourLove #Moratorium

Norway hits pause ⏸️ on #DeepSeaMining, Greenland considers a ban 🚫🌊 Turns out mining deep ocean isn’t "inevitable" after all. Funny that. The tide is turning 🌍💙 #ProtectTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed #PrecautionaryPrinciple

🌊 #Norway hits pause on #DeepSeaMining till 2029 and gets a UN thumbs-up. 👍 🌍✋ Special rapporteurs write in a statement that this is a win for the ocean, human rights and future generations. 💪🐙 Thanks to @astridpuentes.bsky.social et al. #KeepItInTheSeabed #DefendTheDeep #Moratorium

The #DeepSeaMining company #TMC is trying to get both #ISA and US approval for activities in international waters. It's like trying to play football with two referees at once ⚽🌊 Spoiler: the rules won’t bend in your favor. 🌊 Because sorry, the #Seabed isn’t a loophole playground.

📢 New release: A Vision for fair, low-impact fisheries in Europe🌊shaped by fishers, scientists & civil society. We urge Commissioner Costas Kadis to take inspiration & bold action to drive a just transition for #OurOcean💙 #RethinkFisheries #PressRelease #Agrifish Read more: tinyurl.com/3sw67mbb

One third of animals are gone after a #DeepSeaMining test. 🐙 I'm commenting the new findings to Swedish newspaper @dagensnyheter.bsky.social today. The results show just how fragile #DeepSea ecosystems are. This is not an acceptable impact, it’s a clear warning sign. #DefendTheDeep

🌊 Big win for the ocean! #Norway hits pause on #DeepSeaMining giving the #DeepSea a much-needed breather. This shows the tide is turning. Let’s make this pause permanent and protect one of Earth’s last wild frontiers. 💙🛑 #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed

Honoured to be cited by Greenlandic media on #DeepSeaMining 🌊 For places like #Greenland that respect international law, this debate isn’t abstract - it’s about protecting our ocean, biodiversity, and the rules that safeguard global trust. #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed

🌊🪸 Just when they thought the #DeepSea was a barren "desert": scientists find a brand new species clinging to metal #nodules that mining companies want to scoop up 💔🧪🌑 #DefendTheDeep #StopDeepSeaMining 🐚💙

#DeepSeaMining in Norway just got wild 🚀 A top company threatens to leave if it doesn’t get permission. Let’s call it what it is: #BlackmailPolitics 💬 Yet Europe says no 🌍 #CircularEconomy #BatteryTech #DemandReduction www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

So… the new report on #DeepSeaMining outside American #Samoa basically says the quiet part out loud: the tech doesn’t work, the economics don’t work, and the strategy is 🤷. Turns out the real abyss isn’t the ocean floor, it’s the business model. Time to #KeepItInTheSeabed and #DefendTheDeep.

A Cambridge piece calls out the #ISA: the #DeepSea watchdog acts more like a deep-sea yes-man. Weak accountability, murky decisions and a habit of overlooking its own environmental duties… not ideal for managing humanity’s #CommonHeritage. 🌊👀 Maybe before mining the seabed, let's find a backbone.

🌊 Big wave alert! The @europarl.europa.eu just adopted its stance on the European #BBNJ Directive, turning global ocean promises into concrete action. 📢 Momentum for the ocean is here, Let's ride it, not wreck it. #OceanProtection #HighSeas #DefendTheDeep

Turns out the mid‑ocean’s buffet is at risk 🍽️. New research shows the #DeepSeaMining plume dilutes the nutritional base of the food web. Bigger particles that feed zooplankton & micronekton get replaced by waste. Harsh consequences for the creatures riding the ocean column. Time to #DefendTheDeep. 🐬

The U.S. and China are racing to the bottom - literally. 🌊 #CookIslands caught in the middle, with #DeepSeaMining impacts risking marine ecosystems. This a test of whether we’ve learned anything from history. @theguardian.com covers this well today. Let's #DefendTheDeep.

The #ArcticCircleAssembly Ocean plenary sent a clear message on #DeepSeaMining 🌊: We know too little about the #DeepSea and once the damage is done, it may be irreversible. ❌ Let’s choose wisdom over haste and apply a #moratorium. 💙🪸 That is the only way to #DefendTheDeep.

The #Arctic is warming fast and so is the geopolitics. 🧊⚠️ As nations eye new shipping routes and #DeepSea resources, fragile marine ecosystems risk becoming collateral damage. Happy to be in #Reykjavik with colleagues to raise awareness of ocean action at the #ArcticCircleAssembly.

An unproven industry is eyeing the Arctic: #DeepSeaMining. 🌊⚒️ Fortunately, global momentum for a halt is growing. 🪸 As the Arctic Circle Assembly begins, see this new policy brief which explains why Arctic states should #DefendTheDeep. @seasatrisk.bsky.social 💡

Out today: 🧐 Only 20% of Norwegians want #DeepSeaMining. Quite a few more want to "fjord-get it"! Time for the upcoming government to stop digging where there’s no public support - and let the #DeepSea rest. 🌊 #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed 🐬

#TheMetalsCompany is a textbook case of speculative overreach: a penny stock that has inflated on political noise, risky legal bets and illusions. Ready my analysis on the #DeepSeaMining company here.

We’ve mapped the surface of the moon better than the #DeepSea - yet some still want to mine it before meeting the neighbors (sharks, rays, ghost sharks!). Maybe curiosity, not greed, should guide our next dive. 🌊✨ #ProtectTheDeep #NoDeepSeaMining #Moratorium #KeepItInTheSeabed

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🪸🐙 The #DeepSea just dropped a new album: 40+ new species in the Mar del Plata Canyon! Featuring #BarbieCrabs, #SeaPigs and other ocean oddities. Proof the ocean is still the weirdest, coolest place on Earth 🌊✨ #KeepItInTheSeabed #DefendTheDeep

🌍 Europe’s new #Environment2025 report is out. The verdict? Our material binge is wrecking the planet and our competitiveness. Each of us uses 14 tonnes of stuff & dumps 5 tonnes of waste every year. 🚮 The fix? #CircularEconomy + #DemandReduction Time to #ReduceReuseRegenerate.

🌊 The #BBNJ Treaty hits 60+ ratifications & will enter into force next year. This is great proof that multilateralism can work! 🎉 Now, if the world can unite to protect the #HighSeas, it can also unite to stop #DeepSeaMining. More work ahead! #BBNJ #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed

🧭 Let’s be real: #DeepSeaMining won’t magically unchain us from China’s grip. Without processing capacity, we’re just shipping rocks while Beijing keeps the refinery keys. 🔑🌊 #KeepItInTheSeabed #StopDeepSeaMining #DefendTheDeep #Moratorium

Just dropped: ABC News' "Race to the Bottom" - a #DeepDive into #DeepSeaMining that’s anything but soothing. The new pirates are going for the #DeepSea.🌊🤿 #DeepSeaMining #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed

#DeepSeaMining without Free Prior and Informed Consent, an internationally recognised principle? That’s not “innovation” that’s #Colonisation 2.0. #AmericanSamoa has already said NO. Respect it. 🌊✊ #FPIC #IndigenousRights #KeepItInTheSeabed #DefendTheDeep #Moratorium

4 ships. 10.5M tons of nodules a year. #DeepSeaCritters? Probably not invited. #TMC seabed armada is coming, permits pending, chaos guaranteed. Will countries call the #DeepSeaMining bluff or just watch? 🌊⚒️ Let's #DefendTheDeep and #KeepItInTheSeabed.

#DeepSeaMining: because who doesn’t want to ruin the ocean floor for some shiny rocks? 🌊💀 Luckily, expert Pradeep Singh explains why it’s a terrible idea in this fresh piece by @mongabay.com. Thanks for debunking the myths! Let's #DefendTheDeep and #KeepItInTheSeabed!

Mining the #DeepSea isn’t just a tech gamble, it’s a cultural wound. #CookIslands debate shows why the Pacific needs a #Moratorium on #DeepSeaMining: protect identity, sovereignty and the ocean that sustains us. This in a fresh piece by @rnzrss.bsky.social today. #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed

🚨 New article out in #Nature: The #InternationalSeabedAuthority is nowhere ready to monitor #DeepSeaMining. 🌊⚒️ The #ISA regulations are not even in beta testing mode. Meanwhile, industry is already at the starting line. 🕳️⚡ Yet, history tells us: Lets not make this up as we go. 📜🔍 #DefendTheDeep

The #Trump push to fast-track #DeepSeaMining feels like skipping the ‘read the instructions’ phase… right before we break the planet’s last intact ecosystems. 🌍🔨Read the new piece by @fieseler.bsky.social here on the need to safeguard the #CommonHeritageofHumankind. #Moratorium #DefendTheDeep

Happy to feature in Finnish public news house Yle @yle.naamio.social picking up on the outcomes of the July meetings of the #InternationalSeabedAuthority and the need for a #Moratorium on #DeepSeaMining.

One week in Kingston. Governments at the #ISA Assembly failed to move forward much need reform yet again. The #DeepSea and the Ocean needs resolute ambition. I wrote about it here for @seasatrisk.bsky.social #KeepItInTheSeabed #DefendTheDeep #DeepSeaMining

We are delighted to welcome Croatia as the 38th country supporting a moratorium or precautionary pause on deep-sea mining! The wave continues to grow, with more countries saying no to #DeepSeaMining #StopTheMachines

Glad to see #Croatia joining the growing group of countries calling for a #PrecationaryPause on #DeepSeaMining here at the #InternationalSeabedAuthority. With 38 countries now supporting this position, the momentum is building to protect the planet’s least understood and most fragile ecosystem.

One year after the discovery of #DarkOxygen, @sciam.bsky.social explores what happened thereafter. Still mind-blowing. Still a reason to pause #DeepSeaMining. We should know more before we destroy what we don’t understand. #KeepItInTheSeabed #ISA #StopDeepSeaMining

Panama’s Juan Carlos Monge 🔥 at the #ISA Assembly on #TheMetalsCompany and their plans for #DeepSeaMining: “This immoral feeding frenzy of modern-day commercial pirates… is a recipe for disaster.” The #DeepSea isn’t a prize for the richest or the fastest. It’s the #CommonHeritageOfHumankind.

#Palau President Whipps just shredded #TheMetalsCompany at the #ISA Assembly: 🚫 Called out false promises ⚖️ Rejected their legal spin 🌊 Drew a line in the seabed “We banned nukes. We saved the ozone. Now let’s add the deep sea to our honor roll.” #DeepSeaMining #Moratorium #KeepItInTheSeabed

🌊 The #DeepSea is safe, for now. No mining code adopted. But the threat from The Metals Company is real. Now also under #ISA investigation. ⚠️ I’m in Kingston for the #ISAAssembly. Governments must step up and protect the ocean before it’s too late. #StopDeepSeaMining #ISA2025 #DefendTheDeep

#DeepSeaMining companies: “The ocean will recover!” 🌊✨ Science: “Cool, we checked but the #DeepSeabed would not like it.” 🫠 Massive species decline, barely any recovery. #StopDeepSeaMining #PrecautionaryPause #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed

The #ocean is still mostly unexplored, and yet it sustains life, feeds millions, and holds answers to our future. 🌊 Interesting piece by @wendyschmidt.bsky.social and @donabertarelli.bsky.social in @time.com about why we need to protect it. Now’s the time to invest in discovery, not destruction.

It is remarkable that the west is committing to spending 5% of GDP on defence, and almost no one has made the case that the most pressing threat to our security this century is climate change and we should be spending more on tackling that.

🌊 Big news from #Vigo: #OSPAR Ministers agreed they will apply the #PrecautionaryPrinciple on #DeepSeaMining. Norway tried to block it but had to give in. This could seriously complicate their #Arctic mining plans. 👏 A positive step in the right direction. seas-at-risk.org/general-news...

🥳 #OSPAR ministers have agreed to ban harmful exhaust gas cleaning systems (aka #Scrubbers) discharges in North-East Atlantic waters 🌊 💪 Now it is time to push forward with a full ban on scrubber discharges in territorial waters Read on to find out more: seas-at-risk.org/press-releas...