In its hunt for critical minerals, the US is misconstruing what is and is not America’s There’s a growing interest in mining the ocean seabed for minerals essential to technology. But whose minerals are they? A Law of the Sea scholar explains.

A message to President Trump: #NoDeepSeaMining

We cannot trash the last relatively untouched ecosystems on this fragile planet.

And yes, there is the #RuleofLaw.
#PlanetaryBoundaries
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Deep-sea mining Deep-sea mining is the process of retrieving mineral deposits from the deep seabed – the ocean below 200m. Depleting terrestrial deposits and rising demand for metals mean deep-sea mining may begin so...

#NoDeepSeaMining

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There's so much that we do not know. We need to have a deep sea exploration just like deep space. #NoDeepSeaMining #cdnpoli

Marine biologists discover 28 new deep sea species—and an old VHS tape The level of ocean biodiversity near Argentina staggered researchers.

Let's not trash the deep sea before we've done more than glimpse its wonders. (Even though we're already polluting it.)

#NoDeepSeaMining

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Deep-sea mining isn’t just extraction—it’s permanent change.
Habitat destruction, biodiversity loss, and toxic sediment plumes put the deep ocean at risk. Learn more here! www.nature.com/articles/s44...
#DeepSea #OceanHealth #Biodiversity #ProtectTheDeep #NoDeepSeaMining

Mining in the Mariana Trench?
Not without community voice.
Not without science.
Not without care. 🌊

Sign the petition to protect the deep sea → bit.ly/4iKfW6x
Deadline: Dec 11 • 5pm EST

#NoDeepSeaMining #MarianaTrench

Greenpeace Aotearoa - Greenpeace Aotearoa Greenpeace Aotearoa is an independent environmental organisation. Since 1971, we've been campaigning for a green and peaceful future. Join us today.

Strengthen the Norway and the Cook Islands delay of #DeepSeaMining by adding your name to this petition saying NO to deep sea mining in international waters. Add your name at greenpeace.nz/y5a18p #NOdeepSeaMining

Sharks, rays, chimaeras further threatened by deep-sea mining | University of Hawaiʻi System News The habitat of 30 species of sharks, rays, and chimaeras, also called ghost sharks, overlap with areas where proposed deep-sea mining may occur.

We’ve mapped the surface of the moon better than the #DeepSea - yet some still want to mine it before meeting the neighbors (sharks, rays, ghost sharks!). Maybe curiosity, not greed, should guide our next dive. 🌊✨ #ProtectTheDeep #NoDeepSeaMining #Moratorium #KeepItInTheSeabed

Deep sea mining will cause great damage to the ocean and the environment.
#oceanstewardsneeded #oceanconservation #oceanstewardship #nodeepseamining

Microbes form living electrical networks to filter methane from ocean floor, scientists discover Methane—a potent greenhouse gas—constantly seeps from the ocean floor and can rise into the atmosphere. Now, an international team led by scientists with the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and ...

"Microbes ... work together in sophisticated ways that influence processes on a planetary scale".

How little we understand of the #Biodiversity we are fast trashing. Good time to say #NoDeepSeaMining
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Amazing. Thanks for sharing.
#NoDeepSeaMining

Headless chicken monster: The deep sea cucumber with tubular feet for gobbling sediment This swimming sea cucumber looks like a chicken carcass, eats poop floating in the water and uses defecation as a means of propulsion.

No, we shouldn't trash the #biodiversity of which we have so little understanding.

#NoDeepSeaMining

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First-of-its-kind footage captures bizarre sea creatures flourishing in extreme depths of the ocean Scientists have filmed odd communities of life flourishing deeper in the ocean than ever before. The chemosynthesis-based life-forms get their energy from chemical reactions, powered by gases seeping ...

Don't mess with #Biodiversity we don't understand: #NoDeepSeaMining

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Scientists Found a Mysterious Barrier in The Ocean That Jellyfish Won't Cross In the cold darkness deep beneath the waves of the Arctic Ocean, a hidden barrier appears to separate the haves from the have-nots.

#Biodiversity - how little we understand about the world we are fast-trashing.

And much more than genotype determines phenotype

#NoDeepSeaMining
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New deep sea mining rules lack consensus despite US pressure After two weeks of negotiations, the International Seabed Authority (ISA) is still far from finalizing rules for extracting coveted metals on the high seas despite heightened pressure triggered by US ...

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"Mining could not begin until experts could pinpoint "all the scientific knowledge that we need to have to identify the potential impacts and effects on the marine environment."

Which is very far from where we are
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Ekō:"..a massive global emergency with consequences we can't even imagine" #island in the #mining zone calls it"playing gods with the cradle of life": #PumpkinPalatine wants to defy consensus and open the Pacific Ocean to #DeepSeaMining Say #NoDeepSeaMining environmental-action.org/take-action/...

Supergiant crustaceans could live across half the deep-sea floor The enigmatic crustacean Alicella gigantea is the world’s largest amphipod, but like all deep-sea creatures it hasn’t proved easy to find

We know so little of this last relatively undisturbed habitat. We cannot afford, and must not, trash it.

#NoDeepSeaMining

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Because our planet is blue - Oceancare Sign the OceanCare petition 'Because our planet is blue' now to urge governments worldwide at the UN Ocean Conference 2025 to take action.

OceanCare’s campaign #BecauseOurPlanetIsBlue likewise calls for a global moratorium on deep-sea mining. This fragile ecosystem must not become the next victim of industrial exploitation.

🔗 Learn more: ourplanetisblue.org

#NoDeepSeaMining #ProtectTheOcean

Here’s the truth: We don’t need deep-sea mining.
🖊️ Almost 350,000 people have signed our petition. And this June, we’ll be delivering it directly to world leaders at the UN Ocean Conference.

Add your voice today:
🔗 change.org/nodeepseamining 
#NoDeepSeaMining

Yes. It will.
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#DefendTheDeep #NoDeepSeaMining

Sign the Petition Tell the U​.​S. to sign the UN's Sea Treaty — Protect our oceans, not exploit them

The U.S. MUST JOIN the U.N. in protecting the oceans, NOT exploiting them!!! PLEASE Sign & Share EVERYWHERE!!!

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#protecttheoceansdontdrillthem
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Trump expected to sign deep-sea mining executive order on Thursday - sources U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Thursday to boost the deep-sea mining industry, the latest attempt to tap international deposits of nickel, copper and other critical minerals used widely across the economy.

Trump’s executive order to fast-track deep-sea mining defies global law and dodges oversight. It threatens ancient ecosystems, stirs toxic plumes, and may worsen climate change. With global opposition growing, this reckless move puts profit over planet. #ProtectOurOceans #NoDeepSeaMining

4,000 Meters Below Sea Level, Scientists Have Found the Spectacular 'Dark Oxygen' What if it could solve all of our energy problems?

A study analyzing potato-sized polymetallic modules prize for mining companies in search of materials needed for e-cars reveals that these rocky lumps are capable of producing DARK OXYGEN 4,000 meters below sea level where light cannot reach #NoDeepSeaMining www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...

Deep sea's 'Dark Oxygen' is "most profound discovery of our time" - Oceanographic Scientists and leaders from IOC UNESCO have hailed the launch of new and extended research into Dark Oxygen as "most important of our time".

‘Dark Oxygen’ was made in a region of the deep-sea known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone where mining companies, already have plans to start harvesting the same nodules discovered to be producing this ‘Dark Oxygen’ for their rare metals. #NoDeepSeaMining

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#NoDeepSeaMining 🦑

SAVE OUR SEAS🐬🦀🐟🐋🦀🦞🪼🦐🐠🐡🐳🐬

#NoDeepSeaMining 🦑

Deep-sea organisms shape ocean floor at 7.5 km depth Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores fro...

How little we understand about the #biodiversity of the deep oceans. Which we cannot afford to trash, as we have trashed the rest of the planet: #NoDeepSeaMining

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Thinking of that beautiful #anglerfish so lost at the surface. Some force driving her to move up even though it will mean her end. If I may be sentimental, this could be a symbol to pay attention to the proposed destruction of the deep sea by mining corps. #nodeepseamining