Julian Jackson
@allatsea.bsky.social
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Ocean governance, biodiversity, climate, multilateralism. Work Pew Trusts, all posts my own etc.
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
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Predicting mesoscale movement of sperm whale units in the Caribbean based on social dynamics - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Predicting mesoscale movement of sperm whale units in the Caribbean based on social dynamics
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-23733-1
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Deep Sea Conservation Coalition
7 days ago
#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...
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🚨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
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Megafaunal community structure on ferromanganese and phosphorite hardgrounds in the Southern California Borderland
The Southern California Borderland (SCB) is a topographically complex region on the active continental margin that hosts varied hardground habitats, i…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967064525001092?via%3Dihub
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#DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️
discharge can disrupt midwater food webs NEW PAPER 🦑https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65411-w
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Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs - Nature Communications
Deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may release waste into midwaters that support diverse marine life. This study finds such discharges could dilute key food particles and disrupt trophic l...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65411-w
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#DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️
discharge can disrupt midwater food webs NEW PAPER 🦑https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65411-w
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Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs - Nature Communications
Deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may release waste into midwaters that support diverse marine life. This study finds such discharges could dilute key food particles and disrupt trophic l...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65411-w
18 days ago
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UN Environment Programme
25 days ago
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
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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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about 1 month ago
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Deep Sea Conservation Coalition
about 1 month ago
🚨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
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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...
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Deep-Sea mining and ocean protection
Director of the Seabed Mining Project Julian Jackson looks at growing international efforts to protect the ocean, recent developments at the UN Ocean Conference, and the mounting debate over whether d...
https://www.rsgs.org/blog/deep-sea-mining-and-ocean-protection
about 2 months ago
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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/
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Africa is leading the way on protecting the ocean. Now the world must follow
The high sea waters off West Africa may seem remote to people reading this in London or New York. But these waters can impact the very weather patterns that determine whether crops grow in British fields or storms crash into the eastern seaboard of the U.S. They provide oxygen for every breath we take.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/africa-is-leading-way-protecting-ocean-now-world-must-follow--ecmii-2025-09-30/
about 2 months ago
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Listen up its
@profcallum.bsky.social
on the soon-to-enter-into-force BBNJ (or High Seas)Treaty 🦑 PODCAST:
www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/int...
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High Seas Treaty to become international law
We'll sea if any more countries ratify...
https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/high-seas-treaty-become-international-law
about 2 months ago
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Perfect Friday commute viewing🚌: 18min documentary on polymetallic nodules and the risks associated with mining the deep ocean:
#DeepSeaMining
🪸⛏️
#Marinescience
🦑
#scicom
🥼 📺:
youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?...
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Nodules: Deep-Sea Life Giver or Key to Our Energy Future?
YouTube video by Scientific American
https://youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?si=URfrEc1WPM616Tcq
3 months ago
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Clare Fieseler, PhD
2 months ago
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?...
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Nodules: Deep-Sea Life Giver or Key to Our Energy Future?
YouTube video by Scientific American
https://youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?feature=shared
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Wendy Schmidt
3 months ago
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...
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Celebrating the Deep | Underwater Oases of the Mar Del Plata Canyon
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTLt6m2f3rk
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Perfect Friday commute viewing🚌: 18min documentary on polymetallic nodules and the risks associated with mining the deep ocean:
#DeepSeaMining
🪸⛏️
#Marinescience
🦑
#scicom
🥼 📺:
youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?...
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Nodules: Deep-Sea Life Giver or Key to Our Energy Future?
YouTube video by Scientific American
https://youtu.be/1jcmfjDtS1Q?si=URfrEc1WPM616Tcq
3 months ago
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The challenges of policing
#DeepseaMining🪸⛏️
on the
#Highseas🌊
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Navigating Challenges in Inspection, Compliance and Enforcement (‘ICE’) for Deep-Seabed Mining Beyond National Jurisdiction
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) and its member States are required to ensure compliance with the regulations they adopt to govern deep-seabed mineral activities beyond national jurisdiction, ...
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-92737-9_15
4 months ago
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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
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Threatened whale species found in areas earmarked for deep sea mining
Vulnerable marine life is getting caught in the crosshairs of our electrifying world, the new study suggests.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/06/25/greenpeace-survey-finds-beautiful-and-vulnerable-whale-species-in-areas-marked-for-deep-se
4 months ago
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Gina Fiore
6 months ago
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...
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On Chinese Tuna Boats, North Koreans Trawl for Cash for Kim Jong-un
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/world/asia/north-korea-china-fishing-boats.html
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Oceana UK
6 months ago
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/...
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UK MPs call for ban on bottom trawling in protected marine areas
Environment committee also wants to outlaw dredging and mining due to destructive effects on seabed and marine life
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/05/uk-mps-call-for-ban-on-bottom-trawling-in-protected-marine-areas
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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/...
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It’s not too late to save our blue planet | The Observer
At the UN Ocean Conference, governments should honour their conservation commitments
https://observer.co.uk/news/oceans/article/its-not-too-late-to-save-our-blue-planet
6 months ago
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New Caledonia Approves 50-Year Moratorium on Deep-Seabed Mining 🦑
www.pew-bertarelli-ocean-legacy.org/en/home/rese...
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New Caledonia Approves 50-Year Moratorium on Deep-Seabed Mining
In the ocean depths off the South Pacific archipelago of New Caledonia, a vast array of marine species thrive in ecosystems found nowhere else. Deep-sea areas—200 meters (656 feet) or more below the o...
https://www.pew-bertarelli-ocean-legacy.org/en/home/research-and-analysis/articles/2025/04/30/new-caledonia-approves-30-year-moratorium-on-deep-seabed-mining
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“Deep sea mining and threats to ocean health and fisheries” 🪸⛏.…🐟 🦑
v4.infofish.org/index.php/ar...
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Article II 3/2025 - DEEP SEA MINING THREATENS OCEAN HEALTH AND FISHERIES
https://v4.infofish.org/index.php/article-ii-3-2025-deep-sea-mining-threatens-ocean-health-and-fisheries
6 months ago
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High Seas Alliance
6 months ago
#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...
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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?...
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The $16 TRILLION Race to Mine the Ocean
YouTube video by Johnny Harris
https://youtu.be/TacQgNeoPMM?si=b2QXv9bx2FTBPXE1
6 months ago
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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?...
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The $16 TRILLION Race to Mine the Ocean
YouTube video by Johnny Harris
https://youtu.be/TacQgNeoPMM?si=b2QXv9bx2FTBPXE1
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Dan Steadman
7 months ago
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...
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Deep-dive dinners are the norm for tuna and swordfish, MIT oceanographers find
MIT oceanographers discovered big fish like tuna and swordfish get a large fraction of their food from the ocean’s twilight zone — a cold, dark layer about half a mile below the surface.
https://news.mit.edu/2025/deep-dive-dinners-are-norm-for-tuna-swordfish-0401
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Trump library?
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7 months ago
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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...
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Global distribution, quantification and valuation of the biological carbon pump - Nature Climate Change
This study quantifies and values the carbon stored in the ocean due to biological processes. With uptake in the order of 2.8 Gt per year, valued at around US$1 trillion annually (at a carbon price of ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02295-0#Sec9
7 months ago
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"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...
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MBARI researchers discover remarkable new species of swimming sea slug • MBARI
A new nudibranch species is the first known to inhabit the ocean’s midnight zone and has unique adaptations for life in this environment.
https://www.mbari.org/news/mbari-researchers-discover-remarkable-new-swimming-sea-slug-in-the-deep-sea/
7 months ago
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Domino Albert 🌊
8 months ago
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
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Ocean Equity Research
8 months ago
🌊 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
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Episode 3 - Small Island States
Negotiating the Ocean · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7c4x3kuuJjDBLhRnI1IMAT?si=7578f0935f974d7c
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love this slogan "Lammy don't Dally" ratify the High Seas/BBNJ Treaty!! 🦑
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8 months ago
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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...
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Deep Sea Mining Impacts Visible For 'Many Decades'
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 on Wednesday that full recovery may be ...
https://www.barrons.com/news/deep-sea-mining-impacts-visible-for-many-decades-a3a7a578
8 months ago
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“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...
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Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
A planned mining method to gather critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes higher up in the water column where many creatures live.
https://theconversation.com/deep-sea-mining-threatens-sea-life-in-a-way-no-one-is-thinking-about-by-dumping-debris-into-the-thriving-midwater-zone-247690
8 months ago
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Excellent scrolly-explainer about the perils and questionable necessity of
#DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️
h/t
@theguardian.com
#scicomm
🦑
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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As countries scramble for minerals, the seabed beckons. Will mining it be a disaster? – visual explainer
Mining companies are poised to mine the deep sea – but opposition is growing. What is the environmental cost, and are these metals actually needed?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/mar/12/as-countries-scramble-for-minerals-the-seabed-beckons-will-mining-it-be-a-disaster-visual-explainer
9 months ago
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"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
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Miners are desperate to excavate the pristine deep ocean. Could Trump help them?
Critical minerals, useful in the green transition, are scattered across the seabed—but environmental concerns and uncertain demand have so far protect...
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/environment-news/69282/deep-sea-mining-critical-minerals
9 months ago
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"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
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Metal mining on land versus the ocean in the context of the current Biodiversity Crisis - npj Ocean Sustainability
As climate change and biodiversity loss intensify, the deep seabed beckons as a source of metals for batteries. Initiating this new exploitation conflicts with international agreements to decelerate b...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44183-025-00110-z
9 months ago
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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...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Heading for dispute? Examining possible legal claims from the ISA’s first mining decision. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about jo...
The International Seabed Authority (ISA), the intergovernmental body in charge of governing the management of mineral-related activities in international waters, is at a critical juncture as it may fa...
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DETIkxPaT82IN23hBWTxNA#/registration
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"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
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Miners are desperate to excavate the pristine deep ocean. Could Trump help them?
Critical minerals, useful in the green transition, are scattered across the seabed—but environmental concerns and uncertain demand have so far protect...
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/environment-news/69282/deep-sea-mining-critical-minerals
9 months ago
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IPSO - International Programme on the State of the Ocean
10 months ago
A study conducted in the
#SouthernOcean
reveals how
#DeepSea
biodiversity expanded after warming events, nutrient influxes, and greater connectivity. Human-driven disruptions to ocean circulation risk collapsing this biodiversity hotspot.
#ProtectAntarctica
https://buff.ly/3ErioPq
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Mike Galsworthy
10 months ago
🔥 Well... this is now over 88,000 signatures! Just one final push to get it over that magic 100,000 and get a parliamentary debate? Why not! Link -->
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Damian Carrington
10 months ago
There isn’t enough ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel to make a dent in our emissions – and there won’t be for years, says
@benpurvis42.bsky.social
#climatecrisis
theconversation.com/there-isnt-e...
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There isn’t enough ‘sustainable’ aviation fuel to make a dent in our emissions – and there won’t be for years
It’s better than regular jet fuel, but beware the hype.
https://theconversation.com/there-isnt-enough-sustainable-aviation-fuel-to-make-a-dent-in-our-emissions-and-there-wont-be-for-years-249270?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-02-11&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+11+02+2025
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10 months ago
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Dr Rachel Hale Marine Biologist
10 months ago
Did you know that the collective noun for starfish is a galaxy? The stars above us are reflected on the seafloor far below. 🌏🌊🦑
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Alt National Park Service
10 months ago
Okay, pardon us, but F this. America, you’ve got to stand up.
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The rush to mine the deep ocean and why we are nowhere near ready:
#DeepseaMining
🪸⛏️
#Oceanpolicy🦑
www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/new...
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The World Currently Lacks the Ability to Govern Deep-Sea Mining
Despite continued negotiations in 2024, the regulatory framework meant to govern commercial-scale deep-sea mining is still years from being finalized by members of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the United Nations-affiliated body tasked with governing the mineral resources of the ocean floor in international waters.
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/news-room/opinion/2025/01/15/the-world-currently-lacks-the-ability-to-govern-deep-sea-mining
10 months ago
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Multi-year expedition to get to bottom of
#DarkOxygen
🌌mystery!! Premature to consider
#DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️
, given this & other outstanding Q's we have about this fragile ecosystem. 🦑https://www.newscientist.com/article/2465191-dark-oxygen-new-deep-sea-expedition-to-explore-mysterious-discovery/
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Dark oxygen: New deep sea expedition to explore mysterious discovery
The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team behind it is launching a new project to confirm and explain the findings
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2465191-dark-oxygen-new-deep-sea-expedition-to-explore-mysterious-discovery/
10 months ago
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This piece outlines the environmental risks and deep inequalities that
#DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️
threatens to precipitate. A great example of how technical doesn't have to be dry from
@eshirin.bsky.social
-and one of the last pieces from the now-archived Hakai Magazine.
hakaimagazine.com/news/how-exa...
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How, Exactly, Could Deep-Sea Mining Benefit All of Humanity? | Hakai Magazine
A tiny working group within the International Seabed Authority is wrestling with a daunting question.
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/how-exactly-could-deep-sea-mining-benefit-all-of-humanity/
10 months ago
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A tiny working group within the International Seabed Authority is wrestling with a daunting question.
hakaimagazine.com/news/how-exa...
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How, Exactly, Could Deep-Sea Mining Benefit All of Humanity? | Hakai Magazine
A tiny working group within the International Seabed Authority is wrestling with a daunting question.
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/how-exactly-could-deep-sea-mining-benefit-all-of-humanity/
10 months ago
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