Tag: Deep Sea Mining

BMW partners with mineral miner SK tes to recycle electric batteries

BMW launched a pan-European partnership with SK tes, a company that can mine valuable minerals such as cobalt, nickel and lithium from used batteries before returning them to the value chain to make new batteries.

How To Become A Maritime Lawyer & What Do They Do?

Want to work for an oil company or a shipping company? Try a career in maritime law.

What is dark oxygen?

Something dark and metallic-like is pumping out large amounts of oxygen from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, at depths where a lack of sunlight makes photosynthesis impossible, scientists have noticed. 

Norways pushes ahead with deep sea mining licenses

Norway decides to start offering deep sea mining licenses for the for the "green transition"

Norway getting sued by Swiss-NGO for deep sea mining

Norway is getting sued by a Swiss based group for deep sea mining.

Deep sea mining hurts jellyish

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. 

Deep sea mining for concrete

Sand is the most important building resource and it is being mined illegally at sea.

Deep sea mining and killing the seas so you can drive an electric car

Strange creatures live in the deep seas. Mining will destroy ecosystems.

Marine ecosystems in danger: what is deep sea mining?

The dangers of deep-sea mining and why it is important for a moratorium.

Deep sea mining and what’s at risk

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.

Can you believe earth is running out of sand?

Peak sand and an end to construction as we know it

Deep Sea Mining the Next Frontier for Sudan and Saudi Arabia?

Deep sea mining for minerals is the next frontier for the extractive industry, and the Red Sea risks becoming...