Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...
Using seismic stations usually used for monitoring earthquakes, an international team of geoscientists tracked Earth’s ...
On the abyssal plains, at depths between 3,000 and 6,000 meters, polymetallic nodules are scattered across millions of square ...
The worldwide network of telecommunications cables lying on the bottom of the world's oceans offers unique potential for ...
Independent researchers from the MiningImpact project and the German Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources ...
Turbidity currents are an important natural process that often goes unnoticed: these powerful currents beneath the ocean surface carve deep submarine canyons, create huge sediment deposits and can ...
According to Henk-Jan Hoving, a deep-sea biologist from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research in Germany, the mothers often die after their eggs are hatched due to the laborious process ...
There's one. And another. This robot was hunting for rocks. A three-pronged claw descended from above and plucked a stone off ...
Since 2015, the European JPI Oceans project MiningImpact, coordinated by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, has been investigating the potential environmental impacts of deep-sea ...
coordinated by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, has been investigating the potential environmental impacts of deep-sea mining. Previous analyses of decade-old disturbance ...
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