The U.S. executive order on #DeepSeaMining aims to fast-track the destructive industry, sidestepping global safeguards and threatening ocean health and multilateral cooperation. A global moratorium is more urgent than ever! Our reaction 🔗 deep-sea-conservation.org/deep-sea-con... #DefendTheDeep

The Metals Company's proposal to start seabed mining in the Pacific Ocean by 2027 has faced opposition from countries that are rarely aligned on these issues, such as China, Russia, India, the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Indonesia, France, Argentina, Uganda, Mauritius, and Fiji.

A tale of how a mining company wants to rush along mining the deep because of <check notes> money.

"A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea creatures." Good use of the word riotous. #deepsea #marinelife www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

🌳➡️🌊 Deep-sea wood falls aren’t just debris—they’re entire ecosystems! Endemic species, weird food webs, and nutrient cycling all depend on them. But natural observations are rare. What’s hiding in the abyss? Our new paper dives in. #DeepSea #MarineBiology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Do abyssal species that grow on polymetallic nodules have more restricted dispersal than fauna not depending on this resource? Contrasting distance-decay patterns in community similarity across the NE Pacific basin suggest they do! See our new study doi.org/10.1111/geb.... on time for #17DSBS!

Scientists recorded a mysterious sound in the Mariana Trench 10 years ago, a low grunt followed by a squeaky echo, and called it the "biotwang." Now they've figured out which whale makes the sound, which you can hear here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/myst... 🧪

ICYMI Apple has joined businesses calling for a moratorium on #deepseamining 🎉🥳🍾 www.stopdeepseabedmining.org/endorsers/

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I'm going to wax idealistic for a moment here. These negotiations are not just about the deep sea. These negotiations are wrestling with, for the first time, how humans will commercialize and exploit mineral resources that lie beyond national border. Today it's the deep sea...

Exciting news: The International Seabed Authority has elected a new Secretary-General. Congratulations dear Leticia Carvalho, congratulations 🇧🇷 #ISA29 #oceanoptimism

Carvalho, currently an official at the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, becomes the first woman and the first scientist to lead the ISA. She won in a landslide, taking 70% of the vote.

Breaking: Brazilian oceanographer Leticia Carvalho has been elected the next secretary-general of the International Seabed Authority, a leadership change that could slow the rush to strip-mine the deep sea for EV battery metals. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This has the potential to be a SEISMIC shift at the International Seabed Authority. A win for science, the environment, women, and Latin America. A day to celebrate and remember! #deepseamining

Austria just became the 32nd member state of the 170-member International Seabed Authority to call for a precautionary pause or moratorium on deep sea mining until its environmental impacts on biodiverse ocean ecosystems can be better understood. #ISA29

Updating the Venn Diagram.

And we are now at 32 States calling for a pause, moratorium or ban on deep-sea mining at the International Seabed Authority. Well done Austria! We do not know enough about the deep ocean to ensure the effective protection of the marine environment!

ICYMI: yesterday at the International Seabed Authority, four more countries called for a pause or moratorium on deep-sea mining - Guatemala, Tuvalu, Honduras and Malta. That brings the total now to 31! #deepseamining #ocean #conservation @deepseaconserve.bsky.social

Another reason to not mine the seabed: Oxygen discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean t.co/DgptLhxRDJ 🧪🦑

New research challenges a long-held assumption about oxygen in the deep sea, with scientists finding oxygen produced without photosynthesis in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.

This is my shocked face www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/u...

Cool new BBC interactive piece on why the High Seas need to be protected. Lots of #deepsea content in there! www.bbc.com/storyworks/s...

Footage of @divaamon.bsky.social in this clip from the @lastweektonight1.bsky.social episode about #Deepseamining www.instagram.com/reel/C8fFY7I...

Thoughtful interview with @ayanaeliza.bsky.social in today's Times regarding climate action. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/18/m...

"Talks for a plastic pollution treaty are stalling. Could the U.S. be doing more?" Infuriating! Come on USA! We bear a lot of the blame! www.npr.org/2024/04/23/1... 🦑🧪

Happy #OceanExplorationDay! So happy there is a growing community of explorers here on bluesky 😊@deepseadawn.bsky.social @divaamon.bsky.social @ericjmartin.bsky.social @drandrewthaler.bsky.social @annamet.bsky.social @dsbsoc.bsky.social @drcraigmc.bsky.social

huge props to @divaamon.bsky.social for this piece YES YES YES Norway = ocean hypocrites www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I will defend to the end our claim to the title of Best Opening Paragraph in Ocean Science for me and @divaamon.bsky.social's vent biogeography paper: peerj.com/articles/7397/ No challengers will be accepted, @whysharksmatter.bsky.social 🧪

A healthy ocean is a just ocean! Happy to share this article just published today in Nature npj Ocean Sustainability. 🌊🫱🏼‍🫲🏾 https://t.co/096wbTVTYT

ROV SuBastian is on the seafloor doing some transects. OctoOdyssey La Pulperia (too) | SOI Divestream 620 www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHM3...

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Within the next half hour, we will be on the seafloor exploring a #deepsea octopus nursery in Costa Rica with Schmidt Ocean Institute. Follow along LIVE! #octoodyssey @sergiocambro.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

Job alert! Fauna & Flora is seeking an experienced marine conservationist to lead Eurasia's marine team. Deadline December 11, 2023 www.fauna-flora.org/about/career... 🦑🌍

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⚡️Policy Brief⚡️ Incorporating #DeepSea #Biodiversity into #ClimateChange Policy. @DeepStewardship 👉 www.dosi-project.org/wp-content/u...

Hot on the heels of the UK, Mexico takes us to 24 countries calling for a precautionary pause, moratorium, or ban on #deepseamining! Summed up in this beautiful tile by @deepseaconserve.bsky.social

Published today in Nat Comm: Experimental mining plumes and ocean warming trigger stress in a deep pelagic jellyfish. With Vanessa Stenvers, who also put together below video (and is not yet here) and a great team 🧪🦑🌎 rdcu.be/drFvO

200+ health journals have urged the WHO to declare the climate & nature crisis as a global #health emergency. The authors based their call in part on the @ipbes.bsky.social & IPCC Co-sponsored Workshop on #Biodiversity & #ClimateChange (2021). The Lancet: thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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A first experimental look at the impacts of #deepsea mining plumes on midwater animals such as jellyfish. Spoiler: it’s not good! Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News piece: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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It’s soooooo great to see the science community reassembling here on Bluesky :)

To engage in #deepsea mining or not to engage: what do full net cost analyses tell us? New paper from @ubcoceans.bsky.social Rashid Sumaila and others www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Happy Halloween!! And thanks to NOAA for the awesome anglerfish template: www.noaa.gov/education/ne...

A quarter of the countries who sponsor deep-sea mining contractors (meaning they are actively pursuing development of the industry) have come out in favor of slowing things down while we sort out the environmental impacts.

With the addition of the UK, we are now at 23 countries calling for a precautionary pause, moratorium, or ban on #deepseamining! Summed up in this beautiful tile by @deepseaconserve.bsky.social

In true UN fashion, the ISA is having a very serious negotiation on whether they should continue the deliberations in a building which has not been assessed for safety following an earthquake while sitting in said building.

USGS says a 5.4 earthquake struck Hope Bay, Jamaica at 10:57 am local time. ISA building in Kingston evacuated but no reports of injuries. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

The UK delegate to the ISA reads a statement from Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the country's call for a moratorium on deep sea minng: "We will not sponsor or support the issuing of any licenses until there is sufficient evidence of potential impacts on deep sea ecosystems."