Deep sea miners want to explore faster than science can show how devastating mining for minerals on our last frontier can be. So science is working to pick up the pace so deep sea mining will not happen without a major shift in policy and research. The latest research to come out is that deep sea mining can harm jellyfish.
Sand is the most important building resource and it is being mined illegally at sea.
Strange creatures live in the deep seas. Mining will destroy ecosystems.
The dangers of deep-sea mining and why it is important for a moratorium.
Greenpeace is calling leaked undercover footage of wastewater pouring into the Pacific ocean during deep sea mining tests “damning”. The undercover footage shown above of the latest deep sea mining tests in the Pacific Ocean shows wastewater being dumped by Canadian miner The Metals Company at the ocean surface, with unknown toxicity and ecological impacts.
Peak sand and an end to construction as we know it
Deep sea mining for minerals is the next frontier for the extractive industry, and the Red Sea risks becoming a victim Sudan and Saudi Arabia are targeting to start deep-water mining of a Red Sea basin, rich in zinc, copper, silver and gold, by 2014. This decision revives from a mutual agreement signed in 1974 […]
Recycling glass is good for the sea and the eye. Avoid the evil eye too when you buy recycled glass.