Bipartisan Concern Expressed Over Deep Sea Mining at Congressional Hearing – Southern Fried Science

Slick. A masterclass.

Excellent explainer on the entry into force of the BBNJ -or Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement, a new UN Treaty to protect #marinelife🐋 in the #highseas🌊 and #deepseabed🪸 🦑 www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0bK...

🇧🇪 Belgium wants to host the #BBNJ, while supporting deep-sea mining🤯 What a contradiction. 44 NGOs to Belgium: back a precautionary pause. After all, deep-sea mining is the BBNJ treaty's first test 17 EU states have already acted. Belgium, it's your turn seas-at-risk.org/publications...

"environmental harm doesn’t decide whether we mine the deep sea, profit will" That’s a sobering reflection of our current system: where corporations chase gains while fragile ecosystems pay the price www.science.org/content/arti... #DeepSeaMining #Environment #environmentalhealth

We’re thrilled to share that Japan🇯🇵 has ratified (acceded) the #HighSeasTreaty. Every new ratification brings us closer to truly universal participation in this landmark Agreement. Let’s keep the momentum going! 🌎 #60ToGlobal https://highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratification/

"While most sea slugs use a raspy tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, the mystery mollusc uses a cavernous hood to trap crustaceans like a Venus fly trap plant." (from last year, but still v cool) 🦑 www.mbari.org/news/mbari-r...

Impacts of an industrial deep-sea mining trial on macrofaunal biodiversity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Seismic, groundbreaking, but not earth-shattering!

Newly elected Norwegian government ruled out deep sea mining licenses in Arctic waters until at least the end of 2029 #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ 🦑 www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

🎧 LISTEN: podcast highlighting #DeepSeaMining risks of plumes ⚠️ & noise 🔊 on migratory species such as whales 🐳 , dolphins 🐬 , skates & turtles 🐢, migratory seabirds 🪽 & eels 🐍 -& the marine life they depend on. 🦑 www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKV...

I was today year's old when I found out about @projectceti.bsky.social -an #AI initiative to decode sperm whale language!! 🐋 🦑https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-23733-1

#NEAFC missed an opportunity to protect deep-sea ecosystems at its annual meeting last week. With #COP30 underway and the 2026 UN bottom fisheries review approaching, NEAFC must align with global biodiversity & climate goals. deep-sea-conservation.org/neafc-reject...

🚨NEW STUDY 🚨 Linkages between megafauna and ferromanganese crusts outlined in SoCal seamounts. Implications for #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ 🦑https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064525001092?via%3Dihub

#DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ discharge can disrupt midwater food webs NEW PAPER 🦑https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65411-w

#DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ discharge can disrupt midwater food webs NEW PAPER 🦑https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65411-w

This December, world leaders will gather in Nairobi for #UNEA7, the world’s highest decision-making forum on the environment. From climate and biodiversity to pollution and emerging issues such as AI and sustainable resource use, this Q&A unpacks what’s at stake: https://bit.ly/47ugJ6e

Love these demonstrations of how terrestrial🌳 and marine realms🦑 are interconnected. (And we he role of freshwater in making the links! 🏞)

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🚨Highlight from #UNGA: Antigua & Barbuda are the 39th nation to call for a moratorium on #DeepSeaMining. Prime Minister Browne: "No one should mortgage the ocean floor to pay short-term bills." Who will be the 40th to join this global movement and stand up for the ocean? #DefendTheDeep

A moratorium⏸️ on #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ would provide the necessary time and space for nations to effectively coordinate, uphold their legal obligations and honour commitments to safeguard the ocean, its biodiversity and its resources for current and future generations. 🦑 www.rsgs.org/blog/deep-se...

H.E. President Boakai of Liberia, on ocean protection at #UNGA: "Deep-sea mining threatens the ocean floor before we even understand what lives there" 🦑https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/africa-is-leading-way-protecting-ocean-now-world-must-follow--ecmii-2025-09-30/

Listen up its @profcallum.bsky.social on the soon-to-enter-into-force BBNJ (or High Seas)Treaty 🦑 PODCAST: www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/int...

Perfect Friday commute viewing🚌: 18min documentary on polymetallic nodules and the risks associated with mining the deep ocean: #DeepSeaMining 🪸⛏️ #Marinescience 🦑 #scicom 🥼 📺: youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?...

Can you help me get to 10,000 views on our @sciam.bsky.social short film about the clash of scientists and corporations in the deep sea? 🪸 This would make our funder @pulitzercenter.org very happy. ☺️ It’s free to watch now on YouTube. We are half way to our goal! 📈 youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?...

More than 3 million people tuned into @schmidtocean.bsky.social’s expedition livestream off the coast of Argentina, sparking a dialogue about the value of scientific exploration. Watch the footage here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTLt...

Perfect Friday commute viewing🚌: 18min documentary on polymetallic nodules and the risks associated with mining the deep ocean: #DeepSeaMining 🪸⛏️ #Marinescience 🦑 #scicom 🥼 📺: youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?...

The challenges of policing #DeepseaMining🪸⛏️ on the #Highseas🌊 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Two areas being targeted for #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏ in the Pacific Ocean are home to dolphins and threatened whales, a new scientific survey reveals. 🐬🐳🐋 🦑https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/06/25/greenpeace-survey-finds-beautiful-and-vulnerable-whale-species-in-areas-marked-for-deep-se

This is a bit of an older story, but since today is the international fight IUU fishing day (though that should be every day) this seemed appropriate to share. Some of these guys haven’t seen land in 10 years!! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/w...

BREAKING 📢 The Government's own MPs and many others across parties call for a BAN on destructive bottom-trawl fishing in offshore marine protected areas🪸 This intervention from the Environmental Audit Committee shows that pressure is building 💥💥💥 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, the percentage of species fished beyond the sustainable limit stands at nearly 40 per cent and continues to grow. 🦑 observer.co.uk/news/oceans/...

New Caledonia Approves 50-Year Moratorium on Deep-Seabed Mining 🦑 www.pew-bertarelli-ocean-legacy.org/en/home/rese...

“Deep sea mining and threats to ocean health and fisheries” 🪸⛏.…🐟 🦑 v4.infofish.org/index.php/ar...

#HighSeasTreaty News: Costa Rica 🇨🇷 is the latest country to officially ratify the #BBNJ Treaty at the United Nations taking us closer to the goal of 60 ratifications by #UNOC3 🌊 Follow progress & urge more nations to join the #RaceForRatification 👇 highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratif...

Well-researched and accessible explainer about the politics of #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ -and why this is an unnecessary threat to marine life🦑 🙏 take the time (1hr) to watch it all and SHARE widely youtu.be/TacQgNeoPMM?...

Well-researched and accessible explainer about the politics of #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ -and why this is an unnecessary threat to marine life🦑 🙏 take the time (1hr) to watch it all and SHARE widely youtu.be/TacQgNeoPMM?...

Yellowfin tuna (fifth most fished species globally) gets half its food from the mesopelagic/twilight zone (200-1000m depth), with some getting up to 94%. With calls to start fishing in these zones, this study notes the major effect this could have on tuna & their diets. news.mit.edu/2025/deep-di...

Trump library?

Important paper outlining role of the biological carbon pump, #BCP linking protection of #MarineLife🦑 with the #ClimateAction (This is what really worries me) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"While most sea slugs use a raspy tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, the mystery mollusc uses a cavernous hood to trap crustaceans like a Venus fly trap plant." (from last year, but still v cool) 🦑 www.mbari.org/news/mbari-r...

This #StarterPack is for world leaders heading to NY for the first #BBNJPrepCom. Suit? ✅ Pen? ✅ Octavia? ✅ Now bring the political will to ratify the #HighSeasTreaty before #UNOC3 Time to take the #BBNJ Treaty out of the box. #RaceForRatification @highseasalliance.bsky.social lnkd.in/eFaQQz4i

🌊 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! 🎧 'Negotiating the Ocean' – Ep. 3 🎙 Mini-Series on Stakeholders in BBNJ: PART 1 – Small Island States 💡 In this episode we speak with lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States about the challenges Small Island States face in shaping the treaty

love this slogan "Lammy don't Dally" ratify the High Seas/BBNJ Treaty!! 🦑

Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed more than four decades ago, but warned that full recovery may be "impossible". #Deepseamining 🪸 ⛏️ 🦑 www.barrons.com/news/deep-se...

“Disturbances like these have the potential to disrupt ecosystems, extending far beyond the discharge depth.” Alexus Cazares-Nuesser on the risks of #Deepseamining🪸⛏️ to the water column: 🦑 theconversation.com/deep-sea-min...

Excellent scrolly-explainer about the perils and questionable necessity of #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ h/t @theguardian.com #scicomm 🦑 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"The argument that #DeepSeaMining 🪸 ⛏️ could be a partial solution to the climate crisis is weakening...." Thorough overview from aptly-titled @prospectmagazine.co.uk 🦑https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/environment-news/69282/deep-sea-mining-critical-minerals

"Opening the ocean frontier will neither halt nor reduce terrestrial mining for nickel and cobalt. Extraction will continue on land, with associated biodiversity loss" Important & timely article on #deepseamining 🪸 ⛏️ www.nature.com/articles/s44... #MarineLife 🦑 #CriticalMinerals 🪫

WEBINAR: Examining possible legal claims from the International Seabed Authority's first #deepseamining🪸⛏️ decision 🗓️Wednesday, 12 March 🕑2pm GMT REGISTER🦑: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...