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earthling<p>Trump has signed an executive order to open both US and international waters to deep-sea mining, ignoring a global treaty that controls the high seas.</p><p>"If you take out the nodules, the ecosystem is gone … the whole living community is gone."</p><p>Dr Patricia Esquete </p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-02/deep-sea-mining-us-executive-order-sparks-condemnation/105224062" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-05-02/dee</span><span class="invisible">p-sea-mining-us-executive-order-sparks-condemnation/105224062</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oceans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oceans</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodules</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxygen</span></a> produced in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSea</span></a> raises questions about extraterrestrial life</p><p>"Over 12,000 feet below the surface of the sea, in a region of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CCZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CCZ</span></a>), million-year-old rocks cover the seafloor. These rocks may seem lifeless, but nestled between the nooks and crannies on their surfaces, tiny sea creatures and microbes make their home, many uniquely adapted to life in the dark.</p><p>"These deep-sea rocks, called polymetallic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodules</span></a>, don't only host a surprising number of sea critters. A team of scientists that includes Boston University experts has discovered they also produce oxygen on the seafloor.</p><p>"The discovery is a surprise considering oxygen is typically created by plants and organisms with help from the sun -- not by rocks on the ocean floor. About half of all the oxygen we breathe is made near the surface of the ocean by phytoplankton that photosynthesize just like land-dwelling plants. Since the sun is needed to carry out photosynthesis, finding oxygen production at the bottom of the sea, where there is no light, flips conventional wisdom on its head. It was so unexpected that scientists involved in the study first thought it was a mistake.</p><p>"This was really weird, because no one had ever seen it before," says Jeffrey Marlow, a BU College of Arts &amp; Sciences assistant professor of biology and coauthor on the study, which was published in Nature Geoscience.</p><p>As an expert in microbes that live in the most extreme habitats on Earth -- like hardened lava and deep-sea hydrothermal vents -- Marlow initially suspected that microbial activity could be responsible for making oxygen. The research team used deep-sea chambers that land on the seafloor and enclose the seawater, sediment, polymetallic nodules, and living organisms. They then measured how oxygen levels changed in the chambers over 48 hours. If there are plentiful organisms breathing oxygen, then the levels would normally decline, depending on how much animal activity is present in the chamber. But in this case, oxygen was increasing.</p><p>" 'We did a lot of troubleshooting and found that the oxygen levels increased many more times following that initial measurement,' Marlow says. 'So we're now convinced it's a real signal.'</p><p>"He and his colleagues were aboard a research vessel tasked with learning more about the ecology of the CCZ, which spans 1.7 million square miles between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hawaii</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a>, for an environmental survey sponsored by The Metals Company, a deep-sea mining firm interested in extracting the rocks en masse for metals. After running experiments on board the vessel, Marlow and the team, led by Andrew Sweetman at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, concluded the phenomenon isn't primarily caused by microbial activity, despite the abundance of many different types of microbes both on and inside the rocks.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PolymetallicNodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PolymetallicNodules</span></a> are made of rare metals, including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copper</span></a>, nickel, cobalt, iron, and manganese, which is why companies are interested in mining them. It turns out, according to the study, that those densely packed metals are likely triggering "seawater electrolysis." This means that metal ions in the rock layers are distributed unevenly, creating a separation of electrical charges -- just like what happens inside of a battery. This phenomenon creates enough energy to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen. They named this "dark oxygen," since it's oxygen made with no sunlight. What remains unclear is the exact mechanism of how this happens, if oxygen levels vary across the CCZ, and if the oxygen plays a significant role in sustaining the local ecosystem."</p><p><a href="https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/08/240826182909.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedaily.com/releases/2024</span><span class="invisible">/08/240826182909.htm</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeaveItInTheOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeaveItInTheOcean</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RecycleCopper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RecycleCopper</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LifeOnEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlanetDestroyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetDestroyers</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanGreed</span></a></p>
eris<p>heavy metal</p><p><a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Metal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Metal</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Geometric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geometric</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Solids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solids</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nodules</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Polished" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Polished</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Industrial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Industrial</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/3D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>3D</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Metallic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Metallic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Iridescent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iridescent</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Futuristic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Futuristic</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Silver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Silver</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Dark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dark</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/Img2Img" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Img2Img</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AIArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIArt</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AIArtists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIArtists</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/AIArtCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIArtCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/StableDiffusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StableDiffusion</span></a></p><p>in real life: <a href="https://aieris.art/featured/heavy-metal-eris-and-ai.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aieris.art/featured/heavy-meta</span><span class="invisible">l-eris-and-ai.html</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>If Earth loses its sources of oxygen, that won't be a very green transition. smh</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> opponents suffer major setback</p><p>by Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS <br>August 3, 2024 </p><p>"Opponents of deep sea mining suffered a serious setback Friday when they failed to take a first step toward an international moratorium on the controversial practice.</p><p>"Until now, those in favor of such mining—which would deliver minerals key to the green transition but with a potentially high environmental cost—have managed to prevent the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InternationalSeabedAuthority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InternationalSeabedAuthority</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ISA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ISA</span></a>) from even taking up any debate on the subject.</p><p>"This time, the debate took place, but a draft calling for a 'dialogue' toward 'the development of a general policy... for the protection and preservation of the marine environment' did not advance after a week of talks in Kingston, Jamaica.</p><p>"Numerous delegations, from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaudiArabia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaudiArabia</span></a> to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Africa</span></a> group of member states, said the draft lacked clarity and that the ISA's full assembly of 168 members was not the forum to make any decision on the protection of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>marine</span></a> habitats.</p><p>"Instead, those countries said the Council, made up of 36 states, should decide.</p><p>"Faced with consistent opposition, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chile</span></a> withdrew the draft measure as the assembly's annual session—which makes decisions by consensus—drew to a close.</p><p>"'We are somewhat disappointed,' said Chilean representative Salvador Vega Telias. Though he believed he had support from a majority of states, he opted to shelve the discussions until July 2025—a proposal that was not approved either.</p><p>"Deep sea mining in international waters involves scraping the ocean floor for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/minerals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>minerals</span></a> like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nickel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nickel</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cobalt</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copper</span></a>, crucial for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a> energy technology.</p><p>"Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UNCLOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UNCLOS</span></a>), the ISA is responsible for both protecting the seabed in areas beyond national jurisdictions and for overseeing any exploration or exploitation of resources in those zones.</p><p>"Deep sea mining has not yet taken place beyond the experimental and exploratory stage.</p><p>"The ISA's Council, which for now only grants exploration contracts, has been drawing up commercial exploitation rules for more than a decade. They are aiming to adopt a mining code in 2025.</p><p>"Non-governmental organizations and scientists warn that deep sea mining could damage <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/habitats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>habitats</span></a> and harm species that are little understood, but are potentially important to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodChain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoodChain</span></a>.</p><p>"In addition, they point to the risk of disrupting the ocean's capacity to absorb carbon emitted by human activities, and the noise that could disturb species such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/whales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whales</span></a>."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-08-deep-sea-opponents-major-setback.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-08-deep-sea</span><span class="invisible">-opponents-major-setback.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceansAreLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OceansAreLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarineLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarineLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkOxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkOxygen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LifeOnEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nodules</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporatePolluters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporatePolluters</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxygen</span></a> discovery defies knowledge of the deep ocean</p><p>Victoria Gill, Science correspondent, BBC<br>July 22, 2024</p><p>"Scientists have discovered '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkOxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkOxygen</span></a>' being produced in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepOcean</span></a>, apparently by lumps of metal on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/seafloor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>seafloor</span></a>.</p><p>"About half the oxygen we breathe comes from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ocean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ocean</span></a>. But, before this discovery, it was understood that it was made by marine plants photosynthesising - something that requires sunlight.</p><p>"Here, at depths of 5km, where no sunlight can penetrate, the oxygen appears to be produced by naturally occurring metallic '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodules</span></a>' which split seawater - H2O - into hydrogen and oxygen.</p><p>"Several <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> companies have plans to collect these nodules, which marine scientists fear could disrupt the newly discovered process - and damage any marine life that depends on the oxygen they make.</p><p>"'I first saw this in 2013 - an enormous amount of oxygen being produced at the seafloor in complete darkness,' explains lead researcher Prof Andrew Sweetman from the Scottish Association for Marine Science. 'I just ignored it, because I’d been taught - you only get oxygen through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/photosynthesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photosynthesis</span></a>.</p><p>"'Eventually, I realised that for years I’d been ignoring this potentially huge discovery,' he told BBC News.</p><p>"He and his colleagues carried out their research in an area of the deep sea between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hawaii</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a> - part of a vast swathe of seafloor that is covered with these metal nodules. The nodules form when dissolved metals in seawater collect on fragments of shell - or other debris. It's a process that takes millions of years.</p><p>"And because these nodules contain metals like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lithium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lithium</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cobalt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cobalt</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copper</span></a> - all of which are needed to make batteries - many mining companies are developing technology to collect them and bring them to the surface.</p><p>"But Prof Sweetman says the dark oxygen they make could also support life on the seafloor [and life on Earth!]. And his discovery, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, raises new concerns about the risks of proposed deep-sea mining ventures.</p><p>"The scientists worked out that the metal nodules are able to make oxygen precisely because they act like batteries."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2</span><span class="invisible">v9eo</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMiningMoratorium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMiningMoratorium</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepGreen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxygen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GerardBarron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GerardBarron</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaLife</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeadPlanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeadPlanet</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>OMG! That's the same stuff some countries want to start mining! TY, <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gratefuldread.masto.host/@verdantsquare" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>verdantsquare</span></a></span> !</p><p>"Several mining companies have plans to collect these nodules, which marine scientists fear could disrupt the newly discovered process - and damage any <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MarineLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MarineLife</span></a> that depends on the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oxygen</span></a> they make." </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/c728ven2</span><span class="invisible">v9eo</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkOxygen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkOxygen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LifeOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LifeOnEarth</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nodules</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Fascinating, gives hope for Life elsewhere in the Universe.....but also, leave those nodules where they are. </p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c728ven2v9eo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c728ve</span><span class="invisible">n2v9eo</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeepOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepOcean</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nodules</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Earth</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Mysterious Unknown <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaCreatures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaCreatures</span></a> Discovered on Abyssal Expedition</p><p>By University of Gothenburg June 9, 2024</p><p>"Transparent <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SeaCucumbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeaCucumbers</span></a>, pink sea pigs, and bowl-shaped sponges are some of the fascinating animals discovered during a deep-sea expedition to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbyssalPlains" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbyssalPlains</span></a> in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PacificOcean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PacificOcean</span></a>.</p><p>"A 45-day research expedition to the Clarion Clipperton Zone between Mexico and Hawaii in the eastern Pacific Ocean ended in March. One of the scientists on board the British research vessel James Cook was Thomas Dahlgren, a marine ecologist from the University of Gothenburg and the NORCE research institute.</p><p>[...]</p><p>"Threatened by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mining</span></a></p><p>"The aim of the expedition was to map the biodiversity of the area, where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaMining</span></a> of rare metals used in solar panels, electric car batteries, and other green technologies is planned. Several countries and companies are waiting for authorization to extract these metals bound to mineral <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodules</span></a> lying on the ocean floor. The scientists want to find out more about how mining could affect the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystem</span></a>, register existing species, and find out how the ecosystem is organized.</p><p>“We need to know more about this environment to be able to protect the species living here. Today, 30% of these marine areas in consideration are protected, and we need to know whether this is enough to ensure that these species aren’t at risk of extinction,” says Dahlgren."</p><p><a href="https://scitechdaily.com/mysterious-unknown-deep-sea-creatures-discovered-on-abyssal-expedition/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scitechdaily.com/mysterious-un</span><span class="invisible">known-deep-sea-creatures-discovered-on-abyssal-expedition/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepGreen</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoDeepSeaMining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoDeepSeaMining</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GerardBarron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GerardBarron</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DeepSeaLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeaLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LawOfTheSeaConvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawOfTheSeaConvention</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LawOfTheSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawOfTheSea</span></a></p>
CellBioNews<p>Researchers uncover a key link in <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/legume" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legume</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/plant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plant</span></a> -<a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/symbiosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>symbiosis</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/SYMRK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SYMRK</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/rhizobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rhizobia</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/roots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>roots</span></a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/nodules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nodules</span></a></p><p><a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-02-uncover-key-link-legume-bacteria.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2024-02-uncover-</span><span class="invisible">key-link-legume-bacteria.html</span></a></p>