Monday, 15 September, 2025

Deep Sea Mining

The Push for a Deep-Sea Mining Moratorium in 2025: Environmental Impacts and International Support

Deep-sea mining targets polymetallic nodules and other resources on the ocean floor, essential for batteries and renewables, but at a potential cost to biodiversity. As of mid-2025, the ISA...

Deep-Sea Mining: Green Energy Savior or Irreversible Assault on Marine Biodiversity?

  Deep-sea mining targets polymetallic nodules on the ocean floor, rich in metals essential for electric vehicles and solar panels. Amid escalating demand, proponents hail it as a solution to mineral shortages, while critics decry potential irreversible harm to marine life. A 2025 Frontiers in Marine Science study estimates a...

Glencore’s Deep-Sea Mining Push: Environmental Perils and Regulatory Gaps

Deep-sea mining has emerged as a flashpoint in global environmental discourse, driven by the demand for metals like nickel, cobalt, and manganese crucial for batteries and renewable technologies. Glencore, a mining giant, has invested early in TMC, securing rights to half of the metals from a Pacific seabed spanning...

Deep-Sea Mining Regulations: A Facade for Exploitation or Genuine Shield for Biodiversity

The deep sea, covering over half the world's ocean floor, holds immense ecological value as a carbon sink and biodiversity hotspot, yet it faces unprecedented threats from mining for polymetallic nodules, sulfides, and crusts. Governed by the ISA under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, regulations...

Deep-Sea Mining: Green Energy Savior or Irreversible Assault on Marine Biodiversity?

  Deep-sea mining targets polymetallic nodules on the ocean floor, rich in metals essential for electric vehicles and solar panels. Amid escalating demand, proponents hail...

Glencore’s Deep-Sea Mining Push: Environmental Perils and Regulatory Gaps

Deep-sea mining has emerged as a flashpoint in global environmental discourse, driven by the demand for metals like nickel, cobalt, and manganese crucial for...

Deep-Sea Mining Regulations: A Facade for Exploitation or Genuine Shield for Biodiversity

The deep sea, covering over half the world's ocean floor, holds immense ecological value as a carbon sink and biodiversity hotspot, yet it faces...

Is Norway’s Deep-Sea Mining Push for Critical Metals a Climate Solution or an Irreversible Ocean Catastrophe?

Introduction Norway, long hailed as a leader in ocean conservation, made headlines in January 2024 when its parliament approved exploratory deep-sea mining with an 80-20...

Greenpeace’s Opposition and Environmental Impacts in 2025

Introduction Deep-sea mining involves extracting polymetallic nodules from ocean floors deeper than 4,000 meters, targeting metals like cobalt and nickel essential for batteries and tech....

Environmental Impacts and the Green Transition Debate in 2025

Deep-sea mining involves extracting polymetallic nodules, sulfides, and crusts from ocean floors deeper than 200 meters, targeting metals essential for batteries and clean tech....

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