Hydrothermal vents, one of the most mind-blowing phenomena. Undersea volcanoes, spewing heavy metals and gases, creating a unique ecosystem whose food chain relies entirely on bacteria producing primary energy from hydrogen sulfide. #hydrothermalvents #seabedmining #deepsea
WE ARE ASKING TO #InternationalCommunity to stop #Ecocide committed by Mining Corp.
#OceanDefenders #Anonymous
Global action to ensure the protection, conservation and restoration of our oceans for future generations #deepseamining #SeabedMining #activism #CorporateGreed
A Pacific Talanoa: deep sea mining is no answer to the climate crisis. Date & TimeNov 10, 2021 06:00 AM Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney. Refer PIANGO Pacific 2030 #seabedmining #pacificcrisis
More than 7 years ago I travelled with ABC News Stateline/730NT to Groote Eylandt to talk to traditional owners about their fears over seabed mining. Today, after a long moratorium on the mining nears its due by date, the NT Government has decided to declare a ban. #seabedmining
New study by University of Hawaii at Manoa, MBARI & National Oceanography Centre shows how fish and scavenger communities vary across the #ccz (an area targeted for #seabedmining ) and are different than those in other abyssal Pacific areas doi.org/10.3389/fmars.… ISBA-HQ w Astrid Leitner Daniel Jones
Today concluded the 28th session of the International Seabed Authority. This year was a big year at the ISA with the end of the two year rule.
The authority has continued to develop regulations for #seabedmining in the face of growing resistance from member states.
What’s next?
An anti-mining group in Papua New Guinea is calling on its government to explore opportunities in precious metals recycling instead of courting armageddon by allowing seabed mining to happen.
#seabedmining
Read more: pasifika.news/2023/05/recycl…
Reading The Listener’s puff piece on #seabedmining , anyone would think our High Court, Court of Appeal & Supreme Court hadn’t quashed the company’s consent to trash the South Taranaki Bight. But TTR’s Eggars is determined to push on. Why? John Key’s govt encouraged him to. 🤷🏻♀️😳
Norway, again. The nation always ready...to plunder the ocean. 'As if the ocean environment needs us to plunder it' is the impression left from yesterdays infamous press conference on opening for #seabedmining in Norway & Arctic. Egon Holstad comments
Worth taking a look and sign this moratorium to #DefendTheDeep from deep-seabed mining created by the Sustainable Ocean Alliance. #DeepSea #seabedmining
There are some areas of the seafloor that need to be left alone if #seabedmining is allowed to spread. Scripps' Lisa Ann Levin among authors of a new recommendation for protecting sensitive ocean regions from mining:
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#CSW66 NGO Webinar: 'Women contesting 'equality' & 'empowerment' in #SeabedMining & #OceanGovernance '. Challenging #PinkWashing , #GreenWashing , & #DevelopWashing of DSM by contesting their instrumentalization of gender equality.
#Seabedmining ? SEAS Aistė presented 3 riddles during #SDGBergen :
1. Who needs #deepseamining ? What are the alternatives for #minerals , tech, consumption?
2. Problem shifting – what seems like a solution today, might become a problem tomorrow.
3. What are science-based decisions?
Right now at #OceanBaseCamp ! An incredible panel talking about how #SeabedMining is totally unfair to future generations!
Sylvia A. Earle Dr Diva Amon Daniel Cáceres Bartra Kaja Lønne Fjærtoft
Maria Ermida
Mission Blue Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA)
#KeepItInTheSeabed
#UNOC2022
#MeetYourHeroes
#seabedmining in the #Pacific faces unprecedented environmental and social challenges, writes Department of Pacific Affairs (DPA)’s Denghua Zhang eastasiaforum.org/2018/06/30/chi…
Time moves slowly in the deep ocean...
the Greenland Shark can live for 400 years, but takes 150 years to reach sexual maturity🦈
So recovery rates are slooooooooow!
#SeaBedMining
Our #MINDeSEA website has new contents! Open Access to research results and maps. Take a look around the site now at: geoeramindesea.wixsite.com/mindesea #seabedmapping #criticalrawmaterials #minerals #seabedmining #GeoERA #EnergyTransition #cobalt
NEW CASE STUDY: In 2018, Japan continued to prospect for polymetallic nodules in #mining claims in the Clarion Clipperton Zone. This particular claim is believed to have a high abundance of nodules. #deepseamining #seabedmining
deepseaminingwatch.msi.ucsb.edu/#!/casestudy/4…
