The world’s oceans could face severe and irreversible harm unless tighter environmental safeguards are put in place to protect them from the risks of deep-sea mining, warns a new report titled...

Fugro has commenced its first project supporting deep sea polymetallic nodule mining under a contract awarded by seafloor mineral exploration company Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. (NORI), a subsidiary of DeepGreen...

OceanAlpha’s autonomous bathymetric survey boat, the ME40 for hydrographic survey, has been applied in the mining industry for tailing dam surveys, in addition to its common application in lakes, rivers,...

Biodiversity losses from deep-sea mining are unavoidable and possibly irrevocable, an international team of 15 marine scientists and legal scholars argue in a letter published in the journal 'Nature Geoscience'....

A new international study has demonstrated that deep-sea nodule mining will cause long-lasting damage to deep-sea life. This study, led by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC), was the...

On 1 February 2016 a European consortium launched a new Horizon 2020 project: Blue Nodules. This project addresses the challenge of creating a viable and sustainable value chain to retrieve...

‘Deep-Sea Mining: An Emerging Marine Industry – Challenges and Responses’ was the topic of the recent 3rd FIGS Events Lecture. Delivered to an invited audience from different fields of engineering,...

In 2014, a public consultation on mining metals from the ocean floor was launched and a study was undertaken by the European Commission. Whereas the study was limited to mining...

The U.N. International Seabed Authority (ISA) recently issued a ‘Report on the draft framework for the regulation of deep seabed exploitation activities’. The ISA report on the draft regulation of...

As part of the Horizon 2020 programme, a new 42-month research & development project has been launched to provide an opportunity to tap into the wealth of unexploited European mineral...