Amongst these amazing lifeforms that we know so little about, sits the latest target for corporate exploitation: polymetallic ...

It brings up questions about the potential of this oxygen to support deep-sea organisms. Environmental concerns: Why mining could be catastrophic for marine life The polymetallic nodules are gaining .

Nature scientists reveal that there is a new form of oxygen that is found at the surface of the ocean. As we know it, the ...

Torn between the defenders of the world's seabeds and industrialists eager to exploit the vast, untapped resources of the ...

"We are seeing surging momentum for a moratorium (on deep-sea mining ... that oxygen was being released on the ocean floor not just by living organisms, but by polymetallic nodules -- a finding ...

Deep-sea mining can also introduce harmful sediment ... But this study shows that rich-nodules on the seafloor may have provided an additional source of oxygen to the biosphere - the zone of life on ...

the depth where the oxygen saturation is the lowest, to avoid impacting many mammals and benthic ecosystems,” Sharma says. Nodules being picked up by deep-sea mining machine Varaha-3. Image courtesy ...

Our sources ... of nodules as a source of U.S. critical materials to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Through our contribution to the congressional knowledge based on deep sea ...