Deep-Sea Mining: Processes and Impacts [PDF]
, 2020 Mining the extensive accumulations of minerals on the seafloor of the deep ocean can provide important resources but also has the potential to lead to widespread environmental impacts.
Jones, Daniel +2 more
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Visual information processing for deep-sea visual monitoring system
Cognitive Robotics, 2021 Due to the rising demand for minerals and metals, various deep-sea mining systems have been developed for the detection of mines and mine-like objects on the seabed.
Chunyan Ma +6 more
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First documented record of a living solemyid bivalve in a pockmark of the Nile Deep-sea Fan (eastern Mediterranean Sea) [PDF]
, 2011 A living specimen of a solemyid bivalve was collected at bathyal depths near a pockmark in the Nile Deep-sea Fan (eastern Mediterranean) and is here presented.
Gaudron, Sylvie M. +5 more
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Exploration of New Operational Models and Technologies for the Synergistic Development of Deep-Sea Mining and Carbon Sequestration [PDF]
中国工程科学The ocean harbors abundant solid minerals and is the world’s largest carbon sink with vast carbon sequestration potentials. Exploring the synergistic development of deep-sea mining and carbon sequestration is of significant importance for supporting ...
Xuguang Chen +6 more
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Navigating the Path to Legal Enhancements in China’s Deep-Sea Mining Environmental Governance [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesAs deep seabed mining technology matures and global demand for key minerals grows, new requirements are being posed to environmental governance systems.
Huang Yuting +3 more
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Cosmopolitanism and Biogeography of the Genus Manganonema (Nematoda: Monhysterida) in the Deep Sea [PDF]
, 2011 Spatial patterns of species diversity provide information about the mechanisms that regulate biodiversity and are important for setting conservation priorities. Present knowledge of the biogeography of meiofauna in the deep sea is scarce.
Daniela Zeppilli +5 more
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Dispersion of Benthic Plumes in Deep-Sea Mining: What Lessons Can Be Learned From Dredging?
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 Over the past decade, deep-sea mining (DSM) has received renewed interest due to scarcity of raw materials. Deep-sea mining has been spurred by the need for critical resources to support growing populations, urbanization, high-tech applications and the ...
Rudy Helmons +4 more
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, 2019 This brief is based on a literature review conducted by Axel Hallgren at Linköping University that maps ongoing deep sea mining (DSM) research, scientific debates and controversies and synthesizes major narratives in the field. The brief will first contextualize DSM, pinpoint a few significant challenges, and continue with a short description of the ...
Hallgren, Axel, Hansson, Anders
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Geographies of deep sea mining: A critical review [PDF]
The Extractive Industries and Society, 2022 Commercial deep sea mining (DSM) stands at a threshold as both national and global legal regimes seek to move beyond exploration of the seabed towards its exploitation. As an emerging political issue that takes place in complex geographies that are not always accounted for by science, deep-sea mining demands critical attention.
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Deep-Sea Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable [PDF]
, 2010 Deep-sea ecosystems represent the largest biome of the global biosphere, but knowledge of their biodiversity is still scant. The Mediterranean basin has been proposed as a hot spot of terrestrial and coastal marine biodiversity but has been supposed to ...
Sardà Francesc +80 more
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