"A 2022 global assessment of nickel mines by Mudd and Simon Jowitt, director of the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, estimates that land-based reserves and resources can meet demand for over 100 years." 🦑
-So we don't need #DeepSeaMining 🪸⛏️
READ: knowablemagazine.org/content/arti...
Happy Taxonomist Appreciation Day 🧬
It's a big day...Today we’re celebrating the scientists who make sense of life on Earth by discovering, naming, and classifying species.
Shout out to all the taxonomists in the Ocean Census Science Network. We're so proud to work alongside you.
"A moratorium would give the ISA time to collect sufficient scientific and baseline data to better inform the development of regulations and prevent irrevocable damage."
#DeepSeaMining 🦑
Indigenous rights, the environment, and international law: What’s at stake at this week’s seabed mining talks #Climate
If I was @zackpolanski.bsky.social, I would be pointing out to the BBC that whatever model they use to justify giving Farage & his boot-lickers season tickets for every BBC show under the sun must surely now treat Green Party politicians in exactly the same way. Might even be one for the lawyers...
Chronic ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life, study finds.
Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade, northern hemisphere research shows
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Video from Papahānaumokuākea ROV and Mapping expedition; a solitary hydroid (poss Branchiocerianthus?) +1m diameter, 1,773m beneath surface on unnamed seamount. Hydroid providing habitat for scale worms.
Hydroids are cnidarians, related to corals and jellyfish.
Credit @noaa.gov Caitlin Bailey
Screen grab of UN Human Tights Office of the High Commissioner website, with press release stating “Ocean governance must be grounded in international law: UN experts”
👆words of UN Human Rights experts, full opinion is here:
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
“Courts have concluded that the #PrecautionaryPrinciple must be respected when there is scientific uncertainty about how to effectively prevent significant or irreversible harm to the environment and to human health of present and future generations, as in the case of #DeepSeabedMining"
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In a few hours in Gorton and Denton - you have the opportunity to transform our politics.
A vote for Hannah Spencer & the Green Party will entirely change our national conversation.
And Hannah will be brilliant for Manchester.
Check her out 👇🏼
youtu.be/uCy0VdHTVvs?...
Anyone else spot a #UFO over South London 15 mins ago? Looked like a string of fairy lights flying Eastwards
❓ What do #drones, #DeepSeaMining, #mounjaro and mirror proteins all have in common?
🅰️: They have all been identified as 15 emerging issues of concern for global biodiversity conservation.
All 1️⃣5️⃣ threats: 🔗 hwww.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016...
Slick. A masterclass.
Excellent explainer on the entry into force of the BBNJ -or Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement, a new UN Treaty to protect #marinelife🐋 in the #highseas🌊 and #deepseabed🪸
🦑 www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0bK...
🇧🇪 Belgium wants to host the #BBNJ, while supporting deep-sea mining🤯 What a contradiction.
44 NGOs to Belgium: back a precautionary pause. After all, deep-sea mining is the BBNJ treaty's first test
17 EU states have already acted. Belgium, it's your turn
seas-at-risk.org/publications...
"environmental harm doesn’t decide whether we mine the deep sea, profit will" That’s a sobering reflection of our current system: where corporations chase gains while fragile ecosystems pay the price
www.science.org/content/arti... #DeepSeaMining #Environment
#environmentalhealth
Graphic titled 'High Seas Treaty Ratification Tracker' showing Japan has joined with a total of 77 ratifications and 145 signatures including theirs. The image features the Japanese flag on a map, and logos of High Seas Alliance, surrounded by oceanic and navigational motifs.
We’re thrilled to share that Japan🇯🇵 has ratified (acceded) the #HighSeasTreaty.
Every new ratification brings us closer to truly universal participation in this landmark Agreement.
Let’s keep the momentum going! 🌎 #60ToGlobal
https://highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratification/
I’d forgotten about it, so thought worth a re share. It is a v cool critter.
"While most sea slugs use a raspy tongue to feed on prey attached to the seafloor, the mystery mollusc uses a cavernous hood to trap crustaceans like a Venus fly trap plant."
(from last year, but still v cool)
🦑 www.mbari.org/news/mbari-r...
Impacts of an industrial deep-sea mining trial on macrofaunal biodiversity www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Seismic, groundbreaking, but not earth-shattering!
Newly elected Norwegian government ruled out deep sea mining licenses in Arctic waters until at least the end of 2029
#DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️
🦑 www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
🎧 LISTEN: podcast highlighting #DeepSeaMining risks of plumes ⚠️ & noise 🔊 on migratory species such as whales 🐳 , dolphins 🐬 , skates & turtles 🐢, migratory seabirds 🪽 & eels 🐍 -& the marine life they depend on.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKV...
I was today year's old when I found out about @projectceti.bsky.social -an #AI initiative to decode sperm whale language!! 🐋
🦑https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-23733-1
A detailed view of a large sea fan coral, showing intricate branching patterns, under ocean water.
#NEAFC missed an opportunity to protect deep-sea ecosystems at its annual meeting last week.
With #COP30 underway and the 2026 UN bottom fisheries review approaching, NEAFC must align with global biodiversity & climate goals. deep-sea-conservation.org/neafc-reject...
🚨NEW STUDY 🚨
Linkages between megafauna and ferromanganese crusts outlined in SoCal seamounts.
Implications for #DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️
🦑www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096...
#DeepSeaMining🪸⛏️ discharge can disrupt midwater food webs
NEW PAPER
🦑https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65411-w
