Perhaps it is easier to think deep-sea mining is something that will happen in the future. Surely the cost and logistics of mining the ocean…
View More Deep-Sea Mining: This Shit Just Got RealTag: mining
Mining The Deep: All About $ For the Government
The PNG Mine Watch blog posts some unfortunate news today about mining the hydrothermal vents of the PNG coast at the Solwara 1 site. Papua…
View More Mining The Deep: All About $ For the GovernmentDoes Weeping Help? Recent Conservation News
Recently, news streams, scientific journals, and the web are exploding with conservation news. Below is few highlights from the past few weeks. I’ll take my…
View More Does Weeping Help? Recent Conservation NewsDeep-Sea Mining is Coming
In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Van Dover compared the deep sea to America’s Wild West and cautioned that wildlife losses could be similar…
View More Deep-Sea Mining is ComingFirst ever underwater lease granted to Nautilus
Well this can’t be good The government of Papua New Guinea has granted the world’s first deep sea mining lease to Nautilus Minerals of Toronto…
View More First ever underwater lease granted to NautilusChina and the deep sea
On the one hand, you have China’s brand-spanking new Jialong submersible capable of reaching 7000 meters depth, 500 meters deeper than its nearest competitor, representing…
View More China and the deep seaVillagers give notice on deep sea mining
[PNG] landowners will ask the [courts] to stop any deep-sea mining in the area until the current mining laws governing sacred fishing grounds are properly…
View More Villagers give notice on deep sea miningTapping the Oceans Mineral Wealth With Deep Sea Mining
Nautilus Mining is the virus that will not go away. You have to admire their persistence if it did not come with destruction of deep-sea ecosystems. Nautilus…
View More Tapping the Oceans Mineral Wealth With Deep Sea MiningOur Impacts on the Deep
I could write about a detailed account of a new study in PLoS One. I could discuss how the researchers imported information on the spatial…
View More Our Impacts on the DeepIs Deep-Sea Mining Bad?
Newsweek broaches this subject discussing the move by China to being exploring the mining of massive sulfide deposits, i.e. hydrothermal vents. Samantha Smith from Nautilus,…
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