Never-before-seen chain of volcanoes discovered hiding on the Pacific seafloor
After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...
My team discovered ‘dark oxygen’ on the seafloor – now we’re trying to understand how it was made
The discovery of dark oxygen clearly has potential implications for the deep-sea mining industry. Deep-sea mining would ...
What a new study found about the long-term impact of deep sea mining
The findings have come at a time when there has been a growing demand for establishing a moratorium on all deep sea mining ...
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Digging For Minerals In The Pacific’s Graveyard: The $20 Trillion Fight Over Who Controls The Seabed
Meanwhile, the vacuum of knowledge about the seafloor has prompted hundreds of scientists and ... vessel recently returned ...
Explorer Seeks Trump’s Nod to Mine Metals on Pacific Seabed
A seabed mining company has asked the Trump administration for approval to harvest the ocean floor for critical metals in ...
First earthquakes detected in Pacific Ocean using ultra-stable optical interferometry on undersea cables
NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection technique. The team are performing ultra-sensitive optical measurements, ...
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Nodules on the Pacific Ocean floor (IMAGE)
Nodules on the Pacific Ocean floor. Photo by the National Oceanography Centre. No restrictions. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...
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Seafloor cables detect Pacific Ocean earthquakes
Earthquakes have been detected in the Pacific Ocean using cable-based ocean monitoring techniques employed by scientists from the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and New Zealand’s Measurement ...
Deep sea mining impacts still felt forty years on, study shows
A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...
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First earthquakes detected in Pacific Ocean using ultra-stable optical interferometry on undersea cables
NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection technique. The team are performing ultra-sensitive optical ...