Latest round of UN negotiations on marine biodiversity treaty to wrap up Friday By Jaela Bernstien, CBC News As two weeks of negotiations at United Nations headquarters in New York City wrap up Friday, many hope the culmination will be a legally binding...
A new species from a new order of Cnidaria lives on sponge stalks attached to nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean.Photographer: Craig Smith and Diva Amon, ABYSSLINE Project via NOAA A UN-affiliated organization meets this week to negotiate...
Steps need to be taken to ensure that deep seabed mining does not put at risk species that are not found anywhere else in the world. Written by Susanna D. Fuller, Catherine Coumans, Nicole Zanesco. Originally published on Policy OptionsApril 13, 2022 From the...
ALEXANDRE SHIELDS, LE DEVOIR Malgré les craintes formulées par de nombreux scientifiques et les appels au moratoire, le gouvernement Trudeau ne s’oppose pas à l’exploration et à l’exploitation minières dans les océans. Il plaide toutefois pour l’imposition de...
by Elizabeth Claire Alberts for Mongabay on 17 December 2021 Delegates of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the multilateral body in charge of deep-sea mining in international waters, met recently in Kingston, Jamaica, and discussed whether to adopt...
This article was published in ARENA MAGAZINE as part of issue NO. 162 BY CATHERINE COUMANS OCT 2019 When I mention that the global mining industry is eyeing the deep seabed as the next frontier in mining I am commonly met with gasps of disbelief and dismay. That gut...
