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MediaFaro AnalysisMussel power: how an offshore shellfish farm is boosting marine life.Mussel farming provides a sustainable alternative protein source for human diets, because mussels filter feed on plankton and do not have to be fed wild-caught fish.Researchers have found that one offshore mussel farm is boosting marine biodiversity and regenerating the seabed.<a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250606-mussel-power-how-an-offshore-shellfish-farm-is-boosting-marine-life?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mediafaro.org/article/20250606-mussel-power-how-an-offshore-shellfish-farm-is-boosting-marine-life?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward</a><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Mussels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mussels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Shellfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shellfish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/MarineLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MarineLife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Protein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Protein</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Seabed</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/LymeBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LymeBay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UK</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SodiumBatteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SodiumBatteries</a> offer an alternative to tricky <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lithium</a>Lithium is relatively scarce and mostly refined in China. Sodium is neitherOct 26th 2023Excerpt: "Fortunately, lithium is not the only game in town. As we report this week, a clutch of firms are making batteries based on sodium, lithium’s elemental cousin. Since sodium’s chemical properties are very similar to those of lithium, it too makes for good batteries. And sodium, which is found in the salt in seawater, is thousands of times more abundant on Earth than lithium and cheaper to get at. Most of the companies using sodium to make batteries today are also Chinese. But pursuing the technology in the West might be a surer route to energy security than relying heavily on lithium. "Besides its abundance, sodium has other advantages. The best lithium batteries use <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cobalt</a> and 3nickel in their electrodes. Nickel, like lithium, is in short supply. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mining</a> it on land is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmentally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environmentally</a> destructive. Proposals to grab it from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a> instead have caused rows. A good deal of the world’s cobalt, meanwhile, is extracted from small mines in the Democratic Republic of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Congo</a>, where child labour is common and working conditions are dire. Sodium batteries, by contrast, can use electrodes built from iron and manganese, which are plentiful and uncontroversial. Since the chemical components are cheap, a scaled-up industry should be able to produce batteries that cost less than their lithium counterparts. "Sodium is not a perfect replacement for lithium. It is heavier, meaning sodium batteries will weigh more than lithium ones of an equivalent capacity. That is likely to rule them out in some cases where lightness is paramount. But for other applications, such as grid storage or home batteries, weight is irrelevant. Several Chinese carmakers are even beginning to put sodium batteries in electric vehicles."Perhaps the biggest disadvantage of sodium batteries is their late start. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumIon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LithiumIon</a> batteries were first commercialised in the 1990s and have benefited from decades of investment. But the rest of the world is behind China on both fronts anyway. America and the European Union have announced enormous programmes of green industrial subsidies. If they are determined to bankroll batteries, some of the pot should go to sodium."Read more: <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/10/26/sodium-batteries-offer-an-alternative-to-tricky-lithium" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/10/26/sodium-batteries-offer-an-alternative-to-tricky-lithium</a>Archived version: <a href="https://archive.ph/7x6JX#" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/7x6JX#</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SolarPunkSunday</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeepSeaMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoLithiumMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeaveItInTheOcean</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeaveItInTheOcean</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LithiumAlternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LithiumAlternatives</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SodiumBatteries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SodiumBatteries</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RenewablesNow</a>

DoomsdaysCWAs <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Norway</a> Considers <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeepSeaMining</a>, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country ActsIn the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful waysby Christian Elliott, April 21, 2025"At the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Arctic</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MidOceanRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MidOceanRidge</a> off the Norwegian coast, molten rock rises from deep within the Earth between spreading tectonic plates. Black smoker vents sustain unique ecosystems in the dark. Endemic species of long, segmented bristle worms and tiny crustaceans graze on bacteria mats and flit among fields of chemosynthetic tube worms, growing thick as grass. Dense banks of sponges cling to the summits and slopes of underwater mountains. And among all this life, minerals build up slowly over millennia in the form of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sulfide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sulfide</a> deposits and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/manganese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#manganese</a> crusts."Those minerals are the kind needed to fuel the global green energy transition—<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#copper</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/zinc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#zinc</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cobalt</a>. In January 2024, Norway surprised the world with the announcement it planned to open its waters for exploratory deep-sea mining, the first nation to do so. If all went to plan, companies would be issued licenses to begin identifying mineral deposits as soon as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Spring2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Spring2025</a>. To some scientists who’d spent decades mapping and studying the geology and ecology of the Norwegian seabed and Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge, the decision seemed premature—they still lacked critical data on the area targeted for mining. The government’s own Institute of Marine Research (IMR) accused it of extrapolating from a small area where data has already been collected to the much larger zone now targeted“ 'Our advice has been we don’t have enough knowledge,' says Rebecca Ross, an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecologist</a> at IMR who works on Norway’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mareano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mareano</a> deep-sea mapping initiative. She says the decision was based solely on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geology</a> of the area. Taking high-resolution scans of the seabed and sampling its geology is the first step when research ships enter a new area, but critical biological and ecological research is more difficult and tends to come later—which is the case on the ridge area targeted for mining. Ross says it’s certain that area contains vulnerable marine ecosystems that would be affected by the light and noise pollution and sediment plumes generated by mining. The IMR estimates closing the knowledge gap on the target area could take ten years."The same conflict, with a partial scientific understanding misinterpreted and used to justify resource extraction, is playing out in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pacific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pacific</a>, where mining pilot projects are already underway in international waters. Years before, scientists funded by industry scouted the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a> there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life."Read more: <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/as-norway-considers-deep-sea-mining-a-rich-history-of-ocean-conservation-decisions-may-inform-how-the-country-acts-180986412/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/as-norway-considers-deep-sea-mining-a-rich-history-of-ocean-conservation-decisions-may-inform-how-the-country-acts-180986412/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LeaveItInTheOcean</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeepSeaMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NoDeepSeaMining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RecycleCopper</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LifeOnEarth</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ecocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlanetDestroyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlanetDestroyers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HumanGreed</a>

anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖The <a href="https://mas.to/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a> disturbance from <a href="https://mas.to/tags/trenching" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#trenching</a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/turbine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#turbine</a> foundations could destroy essential <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SpawningGrounds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpawningGrounds</a> for <a href="https://mas.to/tags/herring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#herring</a> and <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SandEels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SandEels</a>, further destabilising the fragile marine <a href="https://mas.to/tags/FoodWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FoodWeb</a>. 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

MediaFaro News DigestBottom trawling in European waters costs society up to €11bn a year, new study finds.A first-of-its-kind study released today found that this cost is largely due to carbon dioxide emissions from disturbed sediments on the seafloor.The study is the first to measure the full economic cost of bottom trawling in European waters - including the EU, UK, Norway and Iceland.<a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250325-bottom-trawling-in-european-waters-costs-society-up-to-11bn-a-year-new-study-finds?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mediafaro.org/article/20250325-bottom-trawling-in-european-waters-costs-society-up-to-11bn-a-year-new-study-finds?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward</a><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Seabed</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/CarbonEmissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CarbonEmissions</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Carbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Carbon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Trawling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trawling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Sea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sea</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ocean</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Fishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fishing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UK</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Norway</a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Iceland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Iceland</a>

Glyn MoodyAs countries scramble for minerals, the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a> beckons. Will mining it be a disaster? – visual explainer - <a href="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" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">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</a> well obvs...

acemaxx<a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/o%EF%AC%80shore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oﬀshore</a> <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#oil</a> is back. At what cost? Years after one of the worst <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/spills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spills</a> in history, companies in search of new discoveries are <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/drilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#drilling</a> even deeper into the <a href="https://econtwitter.net/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a> - chart @FT <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/5c49e3f6-474d-4fae-bcf4-7562e127e911" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/5c49e3f6-474d-4fae-bcf4-7562e127e911</a>

Chuck DarwinA UN body that regulates deep international waters is preparing to elect its next leader, a crucial position as it faces pressure to either ban, approve or place a moratorium on <a href="https://c.im/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mining</a>.The upcoming election comes as the Jamaica-based 🔸International Seabed Authority 🔸ended a two-week session on Friday without reaching a consensus on a regulatory framework for deep-sea mining.The drawn-out debate raises concerns that the authority could receive an application later this year seeking the first deep sea mining exploitation license without having rules or regulations in place.The Metals Company, a Canadian-based mining company, is largely expected to be the first to apply for such a license.Mining exploration has been ongoing in the 🔹Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, 🔹 which covers 1.7 million square miles (4.5 million square kilometers) between Hawaii and Mexico. It is occurring at depths ranging from 13,000 to 19,000 feet (4,000 to 6,000 meters).However, no exploitation licenses have been issued. That could soon change given that some companies and countries are eager to mine the seabed and meet a surging demand for <a href="https://c.im/tags/precious" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#precious</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/metals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#metals</a> including cobalt, nickel and copper that are used in green technology.♦️More than two dozen countries have called for a ban, pause or moratorium on deep-sea mining. ♦️Companies including BMW and Samsung SDI also have pledged not to use raw materials from deep-sea mining.However, proponents of deep-sea mining say it is cheaper and has less of an impact than land mining.Olav Myklebust, the authority's council president, told reporters Friday that there are still outstanding issues regarding a proposed regulatory framework, including inspection, compliance and enforcement and how best to determine payments related to exploitation.He and secretary general Michael Lodge, who is seeking a third term, did not say if exploitation should start despite the absence of rules and regulations.<a href="https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/international-seabed-authority-to-conduct-polls-amid-deep-sea-mining-debate-124072700323_1.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/international-seabed-authority-to-conduct-polls-amid-deep-sea-mining-debate-124072700323_1.html</a>

PhoenixSerenity<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Environmental</a> campaigners have filed a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/lawsuit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lawsuit</a> at an <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Oslo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oslo</a> court challenging <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Norway</a>'s plan for <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a> mineral exploration, citing insufficient impact assessment of the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mining</a>, the World Wide Fund for <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/WWF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WWF</a> and its lawyer said on Friday.Norway's parliament in January approved a proposal to open a vast ocean area larger than Britain for seabed mineral exploration after a government-commissioned study concluded that its impact would be minimal.<a href="https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/environmental-activists-sue-norway-over-seabed-mineral-plan-2024-05-24/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/environmental-activists-sue-norway-over-seabed-mineral-plan-2024-05-24/</a>

CharrveinDon’t miss the big fish! Operational accounting of two major drivers of marine biodiversity loss in LCA of seafood productsTalk by Gregoire Gaillet from Sayari<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/impact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#impact</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-cleaner-production" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-cleaner-production</a>

anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖These powerful <a href="https://mas.to/tags/airguns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#airguns</a> fire loud blasts of compressed air every 10 to 15 seconds, 24 hours a day. The sound waves produced penetrate deep into the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a> and bounce back to the audio receivers. From the sound patterns detected, <a href="https://mas.to/tags/companies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#companies</a> can work out the most likely place to find oil and gas reserves under the ocean floor. The next step is exploratory <a href="https://mas.to/tags/drilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#drilling</a>.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/SaveOurSeas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SaveOurSeas</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SoSSaturdays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoSSaturdays</a> 🌊2/5

PeterD 🇩🇪 🇨🇦First approval for controversial <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a> mining worries scientists.<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00088-7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00088-7</a> "The controversial practice of mining the seabed for valuable minerals has taken a step forward after Norway became the first country to allow such exploration — disappointing scientists and environmental organizations who say that the method will irreversibly damage biodiversity and ecosystems."<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Norway</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mining</a> Seabed <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Damage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Damage</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ecosystems</a>

Matt WillemsenFirst-Ever: 3.5 Million-Year-Old Megalodon Tooth Found Undisturbed on Deep-Sea Floor <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/first-ever-3-5-million-year-old-megalodon-tooth-found-undisturbed-on-deep-sea-floor" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sciencealert.com/first-ever-3-5-million-year-old-megalodon-tooth-found-undisturbed-on-deep-sea-floor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/megalodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#megalodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tooth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tooth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/insitu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#insitu</a>

Scientific FrontlineThere is abundant research on live-in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/symbionts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#symbionts</a>, which share the burrows of other <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/organisms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#organisms</a> in sand and mud on the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a>. However, studies on burrow niches in rigid substrates, such as rocks on the seabed, have been scarce. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MarineBiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MarineBiology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sflorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sflorg</a> <a href="https://www.sflorg.com/2023/10/mb10192302.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sflorg.com/2023/10/mb10192302.html</a>

Emeritus Prof Christopher MayAbsent an agreement on the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a> being the common heritage of humankind, the UN mandated International Seabed Authority (ISA) has been licensing <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/deepseamining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deepseamining</a> projects in international waters; <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#China</a> has the most successful applications Guy Standing (FT) thinks 'there is a distinct risk that we could see what would amount to the biggest resource grab in history'!Some have argued for a moratorium on <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ecological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecological</a> grounds, but the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mining</a> lobby citing the <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/GreenTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreenTransition</a> is gaining ground!

Degrowth or ExtinctionApplications to <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/mine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mine</a> the <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a> in our ocean commons can be made from 9 July, allowing a few corporations to profit from ecological disasterwatch the full version <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_w1Mj0Hsr4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_w1Mj0Hsr4</a><a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/climateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climateAction</a> <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/climateChaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climateChaos</a> <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#extinction</a>

Helen CzerskiThis is a horrendous situation to be in. The deep sea is a huge & biodiverse wilderness. These nodules can take two MILLION years to form. We absolutely do not need minerals from the seabed - battery designers are designing them out - and it will be almost impossible to monitor the significant damage that mining would cause. We must say no. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/08/future-of-deep-sea-mining-hangs-in-balance-as-opposition-grows?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/08/future-of-deep-sea-mining-hangs-in-balance-as-opposition-grows?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ocean</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Seabed</a>

Norobiik @Norobiik@noc.social" It estimates there is vast mineral wealth embedded in around 7bn tonnes of <a href="https://noc.social/tags/PolymetallicNodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PolymetallicNodules</a> sitting on the <a href="https://noc.social/tags/seabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#seabed</a> within in its territorial waters. Forming over millions of years, the typically black, round potato-sized nodules are rich in <a href="https://noc.social/tags/cobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cobalt</a>, <a href="https://noc.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#copper</a>, <a href="https://noc.social/tags/nickel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nickel</a>, and <a href="https://noc.social/tags/manganese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#manganese</a>. "<a href="https://noc.social/tags/CookIslands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CookIslands</a> PM ‘proceeds with caution’ on deep-sea mining as critics warn over risks | <a href="https://noc.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeepSeaMining</a> | The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/07/cook-islands-deep-sea-mining" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/07/cook-islands-deep-sea-mining</a>

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