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Company says process is less damaging than land-based mining

Despite the increase of global regulation on plastic pollution, new research details how the risks associated with the plastic value chain are being overlooked.

Housekeeping  A reader mentioned (thank you!) that last weeks edition included at least one paper flagged as open access that actually wasnt. It seems to be the case that Nature Publishing is passing some duff data into the publication metadata food chain, with the result that Unpaywall (we employ the Unpaywall API to identify open access) is repeating this erroneous input to us. This weeks edition finds direct links to open access articles from Nature journals still not working, but PDF li...

Environmentalists say deep-sea mining could cause major damage to ecosystems that scientists know little about, yet mining companies argue that it is better for the environment than land-based extraction as part of the world's shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy. More than a dozen nations have sponsored small-scale exploration projects, but commercial mining of international waters is not permitted - something which will be debated at a key U.N. meeting on the issue in Jamaica, begi...

In the depths of the Pacific Ocean between Mexico and Hawaii, trillions of potato-shaped rocks are scattered across the seabed…

Environmentalists warn deep-sea mining could cause major damage to ecosystems that scientists know little about.

An AI language model has analyzed the commitments and marketing of FTSE100's climate claims, revealing that less than 20% are on track to become net-zero businesses, raising concerns about greenwashing.

Extracting minerals from the ocean floor could negatively impact biodiversity on a scale of up to 25 times greater than land-based mining, and fixing the damage would cost twice as much as extraction, a new report said last Thursday.

Findings come from cost-benefit analysis of banning destructive industrial fishing practices in marine protected areas carried out by the Marine Conservation Society

Extracting mineral deposits from the ocean floor with deep-sea mining could destroy habitats and decimate species.