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DoomsdaysCW<p>“Thousands of Giant Eggs Found”: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnderwaterVolcano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnderwaterVolcano</span></a> Unleashes Terrifying Discovery That Has Marine Scientists in Total Shock</p><p>An unprecedented discovery off the coast of Vancouver Island has unveiled thousands of giant eggs nestled within an active underwater volcano, offering new insights into the mysterious life cycles of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaCreatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaCreatures</span></a> and the critical role volcanic habitats play in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarineBiodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarineBiodiversity</span></a>.</p><p>Gabriel Cruz June 29, 2025 </p><p>Excerpt: "The active underwater volcano near Vancouver Island serves as a natural laboratory for studying the complexities of marine ecosystems. The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/geothermal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>geothermal</span></a> warmth supports a unique# biodiversity, offering scientists a rare opportunity to explore how these environments affect marine life development. The discovery of giant eggs in this volcanic setting suggests that underwater volcanic activity may have a more significant impact on marine life cycles than previously thought.</p><p>"A follow-up expedition in 2023 witnessed a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificWhiteSkate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PacificWhiteSkate</span></a> laying an egg at the site, providing valuable insights into the reproductive behaviors of this mysterious species. The presence of multiple species utilizing the volcano as a nursery underscores the broader ecological significance of these habitats. This finding emphasizes the need for ongoing research to better understand the intricate dynamics of ocean ecosystems and their inhabitants." </p><p><a href="https://www.sustainability-times.com/research/thousands-of-giant-eggs-found-underwater-volcano-unleashes-terrifying-discovery-that-has-marine-scientists-in-total-shock/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sustainability-times.com/resea</span><span class="invisible">rch/thousands-of-giant-eggs-found-underwater-volcano-unleashes-terrifying-discovery-that-has-marine-scientists-in-total-shock/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeaveItInTheOcean</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LifeOnEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceansAreLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlanetDestroyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetDestroyers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanGreed</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Jellyfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jellyfish</span></a> Keep Attacking <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a></p><p>By Gabriel Geiger<br>November 2, 2021</p><p>"Jellyfish are continuing to clog the cooling intake pipes of a nuclear power plant in Scotland, which has previously prompted a temporary shutdowns of the plant.</p><p>"The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TornessNuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TornessNuclearPowerPlant</span></a> has reported concerns regarding jellyfish as far back as 2011, when it was forced to shut down for nearly a week—at an estimated cost of $1.5 million a day—because of the free-swimming marine animals.</p><p>"In a short comment to Motherboard, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EDFEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EDFEnergy</span></a>, which runs the Torness plant, said that 'jellyfish blooms are an occasional issue for our power stations,' but also said that media reports claiming the plant had recently been taken offline because of jellyfish are 'inaccurate.' '[There were] no emergency procedures this or last week related to jellyfish or otherwise,' a spokesperson said. [Um, did they previously work for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TEPCOLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEPCOLies</span></a>?]</p><p>" 'Like many other seaside power plants, the Torness plant uses seawater to prevent overheating. While there are measures in place to prevent aquatic life from entering the intake pipes, according to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BulletinOfTheAtomicScientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BulletinOfTheAtomicScientists</span></a>, they are no match for the sheer number of jellyfish that come during so-called 'jellyfish blooms.'</p><p>" 'Usually, screens prevent aquatic life and similar debris from being drawn into the power plants’ cooling system,' the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists wrote in a 2015 blog post. 'But when sufficiently large volumes of jellyfish or other aquatic life are pulled in, they block the screens, reducing the volume of water coming in and forcing the reactor to shut down.' </p><p>"While the case in Scotland has once again spotlighted concerns regarding the jellyfish and potential power plant shutdowns, these concerns are far from new. In 2008, a swarm of jellyfish shut down a nuclear power plant [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DiabloCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DiabloCanyon</span></a> -- which had another incident in 2024] in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a>, and three years later the same occurred at a plant in Japan [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Shimane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Shimane</span></a>]. In 2017, jellyfish clogged a power plant in Israel [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hadera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hadera</span></a>]."</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/jellyfish-keep-attacking-nuclear-power-plants/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vice.com/en/article/jellyfish-</span><span class="invisible">keep-attacking-nuclear-power-plants/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarmingOceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarmingOceans</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChangingOceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChangingOceans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceansAreLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceanTemperatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceanTemperatures</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Overfishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Overfishing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNewNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oskarshamn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oskarshamn</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Torness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Torness</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Jellyfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jellyfish</span></a> are taking over the world – and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> could be to blame</p><p>Jan 8, 2019<br>by Sean Fleming<br>Senior Writer, Forum Stories</p><p>"For 500 million years, jellyfish have been part of the maritime <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystem</span></a>, but now they’re poised to take over the earth.</p><p>"They have no brain, no eyes, no spine, not even blood, but they have a remarkable capacity to reproduce and can pack an impressive sting, both literally and figuratively.</p><p>"Most recently, vast numbers of bluebottle jellyfish were pushed ashore by unusually strong winds and spells of hot weather in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/QueenslandAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QueenslandAustralia</span></a>, stinging thousands of people and forcing the closure of popular swimming spots. About 13,000 stings were recorded in the past week.</p><p>"In June last year, over the course of just one week, over 1,000 people were stung in Volusia County, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a>, following a period of exceptionally prolific jellyfish blooms. The explosion in their numbers has been attributed to warming seas and even increased pollution; unlike many other marine creatures, jellyfish can cope with reduced oxygen levels.</p><p>Small but deadly – at least some of the time</p><p>"Typically, jellyfish range in size from 1cm to 40cm. But they can be significantly larger – the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LionsManeJellyfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LionsManeJellyfish</span></a>, for example, can reach 1.8 metres wide, with tentacles over 15 metres long.</p><p>"For the most part, the sting of a jellyfish is more unpleasant than it is harmful. The pain comes from venom delivered via millions of microscopic barbs in the creatures’ tentacles. Most jellyfish stings will only have a localized effect on the victim – redness, swelling, and discomfort where the barbs make contact with the skin.</p><p>"Some, however, will prompt a systemic, whole body, reaction. These may take several hours to emerge and can include symptoms such as headaches, nausea and drowsiness.</p><p>"In rare cases, the sting can be fatal. This is true of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BoxJellyfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoxJellyfish</span></a>, which is spreading into waters that had previously been too cool to support it; its venom causes a severe reaction that can cause death within minutes.</p><p>A force of destruction</p><p>"But these booming jellyfish populations are doing far more harm than ruining people’s trips to the beach. In fact, the scope of their disruption has extended far beyond the water’s edge.</p><p>"In 2011, both reactors at the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TornessNuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TornessNuclearPowerPlant</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> were shut down after an invasion of jellyfish started blocking the cooling filters. Two years later, the jellyfish struck again – this time in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sweden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sweden</span></a>. They forced the closure of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OskarshamnNuclearPowerPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OskarshamnNuclearPowerPlant</span></a>, which contains the world’s largest boiling-water reactor.</p><p>"The island of Luzon, home of the Phillippines’ capital Manilla, suffered a blackout in 1999 due to jellyfish, and in 2006 the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USSRonaldReagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USSRonaldReagan</span></a>, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was brought to a standstill by thousands of the little creatures. And while these events may stand out as exceptions, they are increasing in both scale and frequency. </p><p>"From sea-bed diamond mining in Namibia to salmon farming in Ireland, even jeopardising the sustainability of beluga caviar farming in the Caspian Sea, jellyfish are as destructive as they are abundant. And that abundance is being caused by a variety of factors, many of which are related to human activity.</p><p>Some like it hot</p><p>"Over the last hundred or so years, the average surface temperature of the world’s seas has risen by about 0.9°C. As the oceans get warmer, marine animals are able to spread into areas that had historically been too cold. Oxygen levels in the sea have fallen by around 2% over the last 50 years, due to rising temperatures and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> [including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearOceanDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearOceanDumping</span></a>, which reduces oxygen levels]</p><p>"Jellyfish can thrive in areas with lower oxygen levels, where other animals suffer. But there are other factors at work, too. Fishing has depleted the global stocks of some of the jellyfish’s natural predators – such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tuna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tuna</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/swordfish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>swordfish</span></a> – and some they compete with for food – such as anchovies. With more food and fewer predators, some jellyfish populations can grow unchecked.</p><p>"In the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackSea</span></a>, unchecked population growth is precisely what’s happened. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnchovyFishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnchovyFishing</span></a> in the region had caused harm to the Black Sea’s ecosystem by the time stowaway jellyfish made the journey there from the eastern seaboard of the USA. Most likely transported in the ballast water of ships that made the crossing, 1982 saw the arrival of the warty comb jelly. By 1990, there were 900 million tons of them in the Black Sea.</p><p>"There are believed to be around 200 different species of jellyfish, not all of which can sting, and some are considered edible. This could offer one potential, and creative, approach toward dealing with an over-abundance of jellyfish – co-opting them onto our dinner plates." [That's one way to deal with invasive species -- eat them into extinction!]</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.weforum.org/stories/2019/01/how-an-explosion-of-jellyfish-is-wreaking-havoc/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">weforum.org/stories/2019/01/ho</span><span class="invisible">w-an-explosion-of-jellyfish-is-wreaking-havoc/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WarmingOceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WarmingOceans</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChangingOceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChangingOceans</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceansAreLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceanTemperatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceanTemperatures</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Overfishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Overfishing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNewNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNewNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oskarshamn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oskarshamn</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Torness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Torness</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kerala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kerala</span></a> fishermen up in arms against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> proposal off <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kollam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kollam</span></a> coast</p><p>March 22, 2025</p><p>"The fishermen in Kerala have already launched several protests against the proposed plan to open up the sea to private mining companies as part of the Union Government’s ‘Blue Economy’ initiative.</p><p>"All the fishermen’s associations stand united in their protests against this proposal, alleging that it would bring an end to the fisheries sector in the country, not only in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArabianSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArabianSea</span></a> but also in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BayOfBengal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BayOfBengal</span></a>.</p><p>“ 'The mining, according to the scientific report we have, can disturb the seabed and completely destroy fish spawning habitats. It can also release poisonous gases trapped on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaFloor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaFloor</span></a>, causing severe <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> issues,' Kerala Minister for Fisheries, Saji Cherian, told PTI.</p><p>"He said that deep-sea mining requires huge investments and heavy machinery, meaning only <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/multinational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multinational</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a> will be involved, making these areas completely inaccessible to poor fishermen.</p><p>"The Kerala government, which is strongly opposing this project, passed a resolution in the Assembly urging the Centre to withdraw it.</p><p>"The Minister said the proposed site, off the Kollam shore in Kerala in the Arabian Sea, is very rich in marine resources and serves as a lifeline for fishermen from Kerala and other states.</p><p>“ 'We have a highly diverse and extensive fish population in this area. The mining will completely wipe out this habitat, severely affecting the livelihood of fishermen in our region,' Saji Cherian said."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/economy/kerala-fishermen-up-in-arms-against-deep-sea-mining-proposal-off-kollam-coast/ar-AA1Brtp9" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">msn.com/en-in/money/economy/ke</span><span class="invisible">rala-fishermen-up-in-arms-against-deep-sea-mining-proposal-off-kollam-coast/ar-AA1Brtp9</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoJobsOnADeadPlanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoJobsOnADeadPlanet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceansAreLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarineLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarineLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkOxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkOxygen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LifeOnEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nodules</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporatePolluters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporatePolluters</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BatteryAlternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BatteryAlternatives</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoCobaltMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoCobaltMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCobalt</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleZinc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleZinc</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Recycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Recycle</span></a>! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlanetDestroyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetDestroyers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanGreed</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NPR</span></a>: The U.S. takes a step toward allowing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> on the ocean floor, a fragile <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystem</span></a></p><p>by Julia Simon, April 25, 2025</p><p>"President <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> signed an executive order Thursday aimed at making it easier for companies to mine the deep seafloor, saying it would create 'a robust domestic supply for critical minerals.'</p><p>"There is currently no commercial-scale deep-sea mining anywhere in the world. But companies have long eyed the ocean floor as a potential source of metals like nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper, which are used in batteries for electric vehicles and other technologies.</p><p>"The world has no rulebook for deep-sea mining. One company is pushing forward anyway</p><p>"These metals can be found in potato-sized nodules lying on the ocean floor. Many of the nodules are in the middle of the Pacific ocean, beyond the legal territory of individual countries.</p><p>"Thursday's order might circumvent ongoing international negotiations to regulate deep-sea mining.</p><p>"Those regions have traditionally been overseen by an international organization, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InternationalSeabedAuthority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalSeabedAuthority</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ISA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ISA</span></a>). The ISA has hosted talks for years to try to hammer out a rulebook to govern a potential seabed mining industry. The U.S. did not ratify the treaty that governs the seabed, and is not a voting member of the ISA, though in the past under previous administrations it has respected the ISA process.</p><p>"In his executive order, Trump instructed federal agencies to expedite the process for reviewing and issuing permits for mining on the seafloor in both U.S. and international territory. It will use a U.S. law from 1980, the "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeabed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeabed</span></a> Hard Mineral Resources Act."</p><p>"Scientists and environmental groups condemned the order, arguing that opening the deep seabed for mining could disrupt important marine ecosystems, and damage the fishing industry.</p><p>" 'This is being planned on some of the least resilient <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystems</span></a> on the planet,' says Douglas McCauley, professor of ocean science at the University of California Santa Barbara. 'It would have <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/catastrophic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>catastrophic</span></a> biological consequences.'</p><p>"Underwater mining can create plumes of sediment that could suffocate marine life, and degrade the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodWebs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoodWebs</span></a> that fish depend on, McCauley says.</p><p>"There are also important questions about whether we actually need to be mining the seabed to get enough of these minerals for technologies like batteries, says Micah Ziegler, assistant professor of energy and chemical systems at Georgia Institute of Technology.</p><p>"While a couple of years ago researchers were concerned about the limitations of land-based mining for metals like cobalt and nickel, a variety of alternative <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/battery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>battery</span></a> chemistries have been developed that might reduce the need for those elements, Ziegler says."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/04/25/nx-s1-5376482/trump-seabed-mining-executive-order" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">npr.org/2025/04/25/nx-s1-53764</span><span class="invisible">82/trump-seabed-mining-executive-order</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceansAreLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarineLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarineLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkOxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkOxygen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LifeOnEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nodules</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporatePolluters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporatePolluters</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpSucks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Idiocracy</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BatteryAlternatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BatteryAlternatives</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoCobaltMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoCobaltMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCobalt</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleZinc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleZinc</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Recycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Recycle</span></a>! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlanetDestroyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetDestroyers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanGreed</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoJobsOnADeadPlanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoJobsOnADeadPlanet</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>As <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Norway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Norway</span></a> Considers <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a>, a Rich History of Ocean Conservation Decisions May Inform How the Country Acts</p><p>In the past, scientists, industry and government have worked together in surprising, tense and fruitful ways</p><p>by Christian Elliott, April 21, 2025</p><p>"At the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arctic</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MidOceanRidge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MidOceanRidge</span></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">#<span>sulfide</span></a> deposits and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/manganese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manganese</span></a> crusts.</p><p>"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">#<span>copper</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/zinc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zinc</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cobalt</span></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">#<span>Spring2025</span></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</p><p>“ '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">#<span>ecologist</span></a> at IMR who works on Norway’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mareano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mareano</span></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">#<span>geology</span></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.</p><p>"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">#<span>Pacific</span></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">#<span>seabed</span></a> there, discovering both valuable minerals and new forms of life."</p><p>Read more:<br><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"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">smithsonianmag.com/science-nat</span><span class="invisible">ure/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</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeaveItInTheOcean</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LifeOnEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlanetDestroyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetDestroyers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanGreed</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxygen</span></a> produced in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSea</span></a> raises questions about extraterrestrial life</p><p>"Over 12,000 feet below the surface of the sea, in a region of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CCZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CCZ</span></a>), million-year-old rocks cover the seafloor. These rocks may seem lifeless, but nestled between the nooks and crannies on their surfaces, tiny sea creatures and microbes make their home, many uniquely adapted to life in the dark.</p><p>"These deep-sea rocks, called polymetallic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodules</span></a>, don't only host a surprising number of sea critters. A team of scientists that includes Boston University experts has discovered they also produce oxygen on the seafloor.</p><p>"The discovery is a surprise considering oxygen is typically created by plants and organisms with help from the sun -- not by rocks on the ocean floor. About half of all the oxygen we breathe is made near the surface of the ocean by phytoplankton that photosynthesize just like land-dwelling plants. Since the sun is needed to carry out photosynthesis, finding oxygen production at the bottom of the sea, where there is no light, flips conventional wisdom on its head. It was so unexpected that scientists involved in the study first thought it was a mistake.</p><p>"This was really weird, because no one had ever seen it before," says Jeffrey Marlow, a BU College of Arts &amp; Sciences assistant professor of biology and coauthor on the study, which was published in Nature Geoscience.</p><p>As an expert in microbes that live in the most extreme habitats on Earth -- like hardened lava and deep-sea hydrothermal vents -- Marlow initially suspected that microbial activity could be responsible for making oxygen. The research team used deep-sea chambers that land on the seafloor and enclose the seawater, sediment, polymetallic nodules, and living organisms. They then measured how oxygen levels changed in the chambers over 48 hours. If there are plentiful organisms breathing oxygen, then the levels would normally decline, depending on how much animal activity is present in the chamber. But in this case, oxygen was increasing.</p><p>" 'We did a lot of troubleshooting and found that the oxygen levels increased many more times following that initial measurement,' Marlow says. 'So we're now convinced it's a real signal.'</p><p>"He and his colleagues were aboard a research vessel tasked with learning more about the ecology of the CCZ, which spans 1.7 million square miles between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hawaii</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a>, for an environmental survey sponsored by The Metals Company, a deep-sea mining firm interested in extracting the rocks en masse for metals. After running experiments on board the vessel, Marlow and the team, led by Andrew Sweetman at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, concluded the phenomenon isn't primarily caused by microbial activity, despite the abundance of many different types of microbes both on and inside the rocks.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PolymetallicNodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PolymetallicNodules</span></a> are made of rare metals, including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copper</span></a>, nickel, cobalt, iron, and manganese, which is why companies are interested in mining them. It turns out, according to the study, that those densely packed metals are likely triggering "seawater electrolysis." This means that metal ions in the rock layers are distributed unevenly, creating a separation of electrical charges -- just like what happens inside of a battery. This phenomenon creates enough energy to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen. They named this "dark oxygen," since it's oxygen made with no sunlight. What remains unclear is the exact mechanism of how this happens, if oxygen levels vary across the CCZ, and if the oxygen plays a significant role in sustaining the local ecosystem."</p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240826182909.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedaily.com/releases/2024</span><span class="invisible">/08/240826182909.htm</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeaveItInTheOcean</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LifeOnEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlanetDestroyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetDestroyers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanGreed</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>If Earth loses its sources of oxygen, that won't be a very green transition. smh</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> opponents suffer major setback</p><p>by Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS <br>August 3, 2024 </p><p>"Opponents of deep sea mining suffered a serious setback Friday when they failed to take a first step toward an international moratorium on the controversial practice.</p><p>"Until now, those in favor of such mining—which would deliver minerals key to the green transition but with a potentially high environmental cost—have managed to prevent the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InternationalSeabedAuthority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalSeabedAuthority</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ISA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ISA</span></a>) from even taking up any debate on the subject.</p><p>"This time, the debate took place, but a draft calling for a 'dialogue' toward 'the development of a general policy... for the protection and preservation of the marine environment' did not advance after a week of talks in Kingston, Jamaica.</p><p>"Numerous delegations, from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaudiArabia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaudiArabia</span></a> to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> group of member states, said the draft lacked clarity and that the ISA's full assembly of 168 members was not the forum to make any decision on the protection of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marine</span></a> habitats.</p><p>"Instead, those countries said the Council, made up of 36 states, should decide.</p><p>"Faced with consistent opposition, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chile</span></a> withdrew the draft measure as the assembly's annual session—which makes decisions by consensus—drew to a close.</p><p>"'We are somewhat disappointed,' said Chilean representative Salvador Vega Telias. Though he believed he had support from a majority of states, he opted to shelve the discussions until July 2025—a proposal that was not approved either.</p><p>"Deep sea mining in international waters involves scraping the ocean floor for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/minerals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>minerals</span></a> like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nickel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nickel</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cobalt</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copper</span></a>, crucial for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a> energy technology.</p><p>"Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UNCLOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNCLOS</span></a>), the ISA is responsible for both protecting the seabed in areas beyond national jurisdictions and for overseeing any exploration or exploitation of resources in those zones.</p><p>"Deep sea mining has not yet taken place beyond the experimental and exploratory stage.</p><p>"The ISA's Council, which for now only grants exploration contracts, has been drawing up commercial exploitation rules for more than a decade. They are aiming to adopt a mining code in 2025.</p><p>"Non-governmental organizations and scientists warn that deep sea mining could damage <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/habitats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>habitats</span></a> and harm species that are little understood, but are potentially important to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodChain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoodChain</span></a>.</p><p>"In addition, they point to the risk of disrupting the ocean's capacity to absorb carbon emitted by human activities, and the noise that could disturb species such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/whales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whales</span></a>."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-08-deep-sea-opponents-major-setback.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-08-deep-sea</span><span class="invisible">-opponents-major-setback.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceansAreLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarineLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarineLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkOxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkOxygen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LifeOnEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nodules</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporatePolluters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporatePolluters</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>So, the discovery of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkOxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkOxygen</span></a> deep under the ocean reminds me of how <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericans</span></a> and other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousPeoples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousPeoples</span></a> have warned us that messing with certain places could affect life on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MotherEarth</span></a> -- that some of them keep harmful forces (radiation) in check, or are essential in the creation of oxygen. Life on Earth exists only because certain elements have come together in a certain way. Why mess with what works?!!!<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheSacred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheSacred</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendMotherEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendMotherEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheGround" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeaveItInTheGround</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeaveItInTheOcean</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoUraniumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoUraniumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoLithiumMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoLithiumMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Recycle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Recycle</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElectronicsRecycling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectronicsRecycling</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxygen</span></a> discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean</p><p>Victoria Gill, Science correspondent, BBC<br>July 22, 2024</p><p>"Scientists have discovered '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkOxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkOxygen</span></a>' being produced in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepOcean</span></a>, apparently by lumps of metal on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/seafloor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seafloor</span></a>.</p><p>"About half the oxygen we breathe comes from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a>. But, before this discovery, it was understood that it was made by marine plants photosynthesising - something that requires sunlight.</p><p>"Here, at depths of 5km, where no sunlight can penetrate, the oxygen appears to be produced by naturally occurring metallic '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodules</span></a>' which split seawater - H2O - into hydrogen and oxygen.</p><p>"Several <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> companies have plans to collect these nodules, which marine scientists fear could disrupt the newly discovered process - and damage any marine life that depends on the oxygen they make.</p><p>"'I first saw this in 2013 - an enormous amount of oxygen being produced at the seafloor in complete darkness,' explains lead researcher Prof Andrew Sweetman from the Scottish Association for Marine Science. 'I just ignored it, because I’d been taught - you only get oxygen through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/photosynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photosynthesis</span></a>.</p><p>"'Eventually, I realised that for years I’d been ignoring this potentially huge discovery,' he told BBC News.</p><p>"He and his colleagues carried out their research in an area of the deep sea between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hawaii</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a> - part of a vast swathe of seafloor that is covered with these metal nodules. The nodules form when dissolved metals in seawater collect on fragments of shell - or other debris. It's a process that takes millions of years.</p><p>"And because these nodules contain metals like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lithium</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cobalt</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copper</span></a> - all of which are needed to make batteries - many mining companies are developing technology to collect them and bring them to the surface.</p><p>"But Prof Sweetman says the dark oxygen they make could also support life on the seafloor [and life on Earth!]. And his discovery, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, raises new concerns about the risks of proposed deep-sea mining ventures.</p><p>"The scientists worked out that the metal nodules are able to make oxygen precisely because they act like batteries."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2</span><span class="invisible">v9eo</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMiningMoratorium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMiningMoratorium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepGreen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxygen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GerardBarron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GerardBarron</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaLife</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeadPlanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeadPlanet</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>OMG! That's the same stuff some countries want to start mining! TY, <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gratefuldread.masto.host/@verdantsquare" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>verdantsquare</span></a></span> !</p><p>"Several mining companies have plans to collect these nodules, which marine scientists fear could disrupt the newly discovered process - and damage any <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarineLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarineLife</span></a> that depends on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oxygen</span></a> they make." </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2</span><span class="invisible">v9eo</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkOxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkOxygen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LifeOnEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nodules</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenpeace</span></a> could be thrown out of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UN</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> body</p><p>"Twenty-four countries, including the UK, have said they support a moratorium on deep-sea mining. They say licensing must wait until sufficient scientific evidence is available to assess the impact and to draw up regulations that protect the deep oceans."</p><p>18 March 2024<br>By Justin Rowlatt, Climate editor, BBC News</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Miners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Miners</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmentalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmentalists</span></a> are locked in a battle over a multi-billion dollar treasure trove of metals at the bottom of our deepest oceans.</p><p>"Now drama on the high seas miles above is heating up the fight.</p><p>"One mining company claims Greenpeace activists disrupted a research expedition when they boarded its vessel in the remote Pacific.</p><p>"As a result the campaign group could be thrown out of the UN body overseeing controversial plans to begin deep-sea mining.</p><p>"Member states of the UN's International Seabed Authority could choose in coming days to strip Greenpeace of its observer status within the group."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68576735" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/science-environme</span><span class="invisible">nt-68576735</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepGreen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GerardBarron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GerardBarron</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Mysterious Unknown <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaCreatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaCreatures</span></a> Discovered on Abyssal Expedition</p><p>By University of Gothenburg June 9, 2024</p><p>"Transparent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SeaCucumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeaCucumbers</span></a>, pink sea pigs, and bowl-shaped sponges are some of the fascinating animals discovered during a deep-sea expedition to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbyssalPlains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbyssalPlains</span></a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PacificOcean</span></a>.</p><p>"A 45-day research expedition to the Clarion Clipperton Zone between Mexico and Hawaii in the eastern Pacific Ocean ended in March. One of the scientists on board the British research vessel James Cook was Thomas Dahlgren, a marine ecologist from the University of Gothenburg and the NORCE research institute.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"Threatened by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mining</span></a></p><p>"The aim of the expedition was to map the biodiversity of the area, where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> of rare metals used in solar panels, electric car batteries, and other green technologies is planned. Several countries and companies are waiting for authorization to extract these metals bound to mineral <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodules</span></a> lying on the ocean floor. The scientists want to find out more about how mining could affect the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystem</span></a>, register existing species, and find out how the ecosystem is organized.</p><p>“We need to know more about this environment to be able to protect the species living here. Today, 30% of these marine areas in consideration are protected, and we need to know whether this is enough to ensure that these species aren’t at risk of extinction,” says Dahlgren."</p><p><a href="https://scitechdaily.com/mysterious-unknown-deep-sea-creatures-discovered-on-abyssal-expedition/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scitechdaily.com/mysterious-un</span><span class="invisible">known-deep-sea-creatures-discovered-on-abyssal-expedition/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepGreen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GerardBarron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GerardBarron</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LawOfTheSeaConvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawOfTheSeaConvention</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LawOfTheSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawOfTheSea</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>It boggles the mind that <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nauru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nauru</span></a> isn't learning from past mistakes. Also, 10,000 people, who will barely profit from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a>, are buying the hype while <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepGreen</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GerardBarron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GerardBarron</span></a> disrupts <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaLife</span></a>, possibly permanently! Not good...</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> had nearly exhausted the viable deposits of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/phosphate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phosphate</span></a> by 1968 when Australia granted Nauru sovereignty, leaving behind one of the world’s worst <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/disasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disasters</span></a>."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a>, incompetence and a musical: Nauru’s cursed history</p><p>The once-wealthy island now barely survives on income from Australia’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/detention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>detention</span></a> regime and is pinning its economic hopes on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnderseaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnderseaMining</span></a></p><p>Anne Davies and Ben Doherty<br>Mon 3 Sep 2018</p><p>"During the 1990s it transformed into a money-laundering haven selling banking licences and passports, including diplomatic passports, which confer immunity. Customers included the Russian mafia and al-Qaida."<br><a href="https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/04/corruption-incompetence-and-a-musical-naurus-riches-to-rags-tale" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">amp.theguardian.com/world/2018</span><span class="invisible">/sep/04/corruption-incompetence-and-a-musical-naurus-riches-to-rags-tale</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UNConventionLawOfTheSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNConventionLawOfTheSea</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LawOfTheSeaConvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawOfTheSeaConvention</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UNCLOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNCLOS</span></a></p>
Twra Sun<p>📉: Mit 79 zu 20 hat das norwegische Parlament heute für den Raubbau am Meeresboden der <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arktis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arktis</span></a> in der Größe von Großbritannien gestimmt. Die <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tiefsee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tiefsee</span></a> ist der größte Kohlenstoffspeicher der Erde und beherbergt Lebensräume, die es sonst nirgendwo gibt.<br>➡️ <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/norway-parliament-votes-favour-seabed-mining-expected-2024-01-09/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">reuters.com/business/environme</span><span class="invisible">nt/norway-parliament-votes-favour-seabed-mining-expected-2024-01-09/</span></a><br>➡️ <a href="https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2024-01/norwegen-parlament-tiefseebau" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">zeit.de/politik/ausland/2024-0</span><span class="invisible">1/norwegen-parlament-tiefseebau</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DontLookUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DontLookUp</span></a> 🙈</p>
anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Scientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scientists</span></a> believe that as many as 10 million <a href="https://mas.to/tags/species" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>species</span></a> may inhabit the deep sea, the majority of which are yet to be discovered. The high <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arctic</span></a> is an environment of international significance, and is home to important marine species.</p><p>- Greenpeace New Zealand </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/SaveOurSeas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOurSeas</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/StopDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Greenpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenpeace</span></a></p><p>3/3</p><p><a href="https://petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz/oceans-stop-deep-sea-mining?source=actioncallout" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">petition.act.greenpeace.org.nz</span><span class="invisible">/oceans-stop-deep-sea-mining?source=actioncallout</span></a></p>
SHIFTPHONES<p>Im Zusammenhang mit steigenden Nachfragen zu Rohstoffen und Edelmetallen, insbesondere für IT-Technologien, wird der Tiefseebergbau als eine Abbau-Möglichkeit gehandelt. <br>Gemeinsam mit anderen Unternehmen haben wir ein Moratorium zum Thema "Deep Seabed Mining" unterzeichnet.🐋 🌊 <br>Mehr Infos dazu findet ihr in unserem Blog.🙂 </p><p><a href="https://www.shiftphones.com/tiefseebergbau/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">shiftphones.com/tiefseebergbau</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p><p>© IN TOO DEEP / WWF</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deepsea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deepsea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nodeepseamining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodeepseamining</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stopdeepseamining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stopdeepseamining</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wwf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wwf</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a></p>
anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://climatejustice.social/@nodeepseamining" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nodeepseamining</span></a></span> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/deepseamining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deepseamining</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/nodeepseamining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodeepseamining</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SaveOurSeas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveOurSeas</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/SoSSaturdays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoSSaturdays</span></a> 🌊</p>
No Deep Sea Mining<p>Did you know? The Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean is set to become the biggest mining operation in history with potentially irreversible damage to marine life and coastal communities<br>.<br>Most of the species found around nodules in Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific are found nowhere else on earth<br>.<br>Deep sea mining may lead to the extinction of these diverse marine lives<br>.<br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BluePeril" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BluePeril</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a><br>.<br>www.blueperil.org</p>
No Deep Sea Mining<p>Jonathan Mesulam from the Alliance of Solwara Warriors in Papua New Guinea has been campaigning against <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> for over a decade and continues to call on the Marape Government to cancel all licences and to <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BanDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BanDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a></p>