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'Sound Science' Must Guide Deep-sea Mining: Top Official

Deep-Sea mining involves extracting minerals like nickel, cobalt, and copper from the ocean floor, which are vital for renewable energy technology, but environmentalists warn it could harm habitats and oceanic processes that influence climate change.
The International Seabed Authority aims to adopt a mining code this year to regulate seabed resource extraction, while some member states are pushing for a ban or moratorium instead of exploitation.
Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. Plans to begin mining in 2026, highlighting the need for rules governing the practice due to unresolved environmental and profit-sharing issues.
ISA Secretary-General Leticia Carvalho emphasized that the mining code must be based on sound science, transparency, and environmental responsibility.

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Tioga Publishing

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Take 'precautionary approach' on deep-sea mining: top official tells AFP

Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head of the body drafting regulations for the practice told AFP Friday.

15 hours ago·Pennsylvania, United States

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Nature

Measurement and modelling of deep sea sediment plumes and implications for deep sea mining

Deep sea mining concerns the extraction of poly-metallic nodules, cobalt-rich crusts and sulphide deposits from the ocean floor. The exploitation of these resources will result in adverse ecological effects arising from the direct removal of the substrate and, potentially, from the formation of sediment plumes that could result in deposition of fine sediment on sensitive species or entrainment of sediment, chemicals and nutrients into over-lying…

21 hours ago·United Kingdom

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France24

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'Sound science' must guide deep-sea mining: top official

Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by "sound science" and built on consensus, the head of the body charged with regulating the divisive practice said Thursday.

2 days ago·France

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'Sound Science' Must Guide Deep-sea Mining: Top Official

Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by "sound science" and built on consensus, the head of the body charged with regulating the divisive practice said Thursday.

2 days ago·New York, United States

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Republic of Mining

‘Sound science’ must guide deep-sea mining: top official (France 24 – March 13, 2025)

https://www.france24.com/en/ Tokyo (AFP) – Rules on deep-sea mining in international waters must be driven by “sound science” and built on consensus, the head of the body charged with regulating the divisive practice said Thursday. Deep-sea mining in international waters involves taking minerals like nickel, cobalt and copper — crucial for renewable energy technology — from ...

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