Three weeks of negotiations at the International Seabed Authority have ended without delivering the action needed to protect the deep ocean, reinforcing why a moratorium on deep-sea mining is vital. Read our reaction in full ⬇️ deep-sea-conservation.org/governments-... #DeepSeaMining #DefendTheDeep

Governments fail to protect the global commons as ISA meeting ends without action, while calls for a deep-sea mining moratorium grow - DSCC

Media Release Governments concluded three weeks of negotiations at the International Seabed Authority (ISA) with the only substantive decision being to expand the rights of mining contractors, highlig...

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Strong statement today from bank executives as the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority #ISA is on. Kudos to @financeforbiodiversity.org #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed

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Turns out that #deep-seamining doesn't just hurt the environment, it's also bad for business. 👉 Read this opinion piece by four prominent bank executives on why deep-sea mining is both environmentally and financially a bad idea: www.financeforbiodiversity.org/news/opinion...

🌊 What do the latest #DeepSeaMining talks really tell us? The International Seabed Authority Council has just concluded another session in Kingston, Jamaica. This has happened until now. #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed @deepseaconserve.bsky.social @seasatrisk.bsky.social

What the ISA Talks Really Tell Us

The Council of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) has just concluded another session in Kingston. This session of the UN-affiliated body responsible for regulating deep-sea mining in internation...

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🚨 @themetalsco.bsky.social strategy on #DeepSeaMining? If the rules don't suit you, find someone willing to ignore them. The ocean deserves better. 🌊 #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed #ProtectTheOcean

The Vancouver Company Working with Trump to Mine the Deep Sea | The Tyee

As the US snubs international law, experts say Canada has a duty to step in. A Tyee special report.

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The EU keeps calling for a precautionary pause on #DeepSeaMining. But words mean nothing if the minerals still flow into its market. ❗New legal analysis confirms: the EU has the power to restrict deep-sea minerals from its market! 🌊🔒 #KeepItInTheSeabed #DefendTheDeep

Fresh legal study strengthens case for closing EU market to deep-sea minerals - Seas At Risk

A new legal analysis commissioned by NGOs Seas At Risk and ClientEarth warns that minerals from deep-sea mining could reach the EU market within the coming years unless action is taken. The study find...

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🚨 Experts suggest the #US framework for regulating #DeepSeaMining is basically being written on the back of a napkin. 🌊📝 If the safeguards are bare-bones before it even starts, imagine the oversight once the machines hit the seabed. 🌍🐙 @mongabay.com @elizabethalberts.bsky.social

Experts say ‘bare bones’ US laws are unfit to regulate nascent deep-sea mining industry

This is part 2 of a two-part series examining the U.S.’s efforts to begin deep-sea mining in federal waters. Part 2 examines the regulations that would govern the industry. Part 1 explored the process...

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The business case for #DeepSeaMining is sinking faster than machine to the abyss 🌊📉 Interesting piece out on @mongabay.com by @more-whit.bsky.social. Maybe don’t bulldoze one of Earth’s least understood ecosystems for speculative profits.🐙 The rush was never inevitable. #KeepItInTheSeabed

As economic case for deep-sea mining weakens, industry should halt urgency to begin operation (commentary)

Why do we need deep-sea mining? Given the potential consequences for the health and biodiversity of the ocean, that seems a vital question to answer before any commercial mining starts. The question i...

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The #Arctic is one of the most fragile environments on the planet. Yet a new industry wants to start just here: #DeepSeaMining. Happy to have been able to discuss why that is a particularly bad idea at the #UArcticCongress. #KeepItInTheSeabed

🚨 New @apnews.com piece exposes the risky rush toward #DeepSeaMining. ❗Fast-tracked permits ❗Legal uncertainty ❗Weak business models ❗Threats to ocean ecosystems 🌊 #DefendTheDeep

Companies join a deep-sea mining rush after Trump executive order, as regulators fast-track permits

Since President Donald Trump signed an executive order to create a deep-sea mining industry, businesses have raised millions from investors, and stock prices have soared.

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We're launching #DefendTheDeep Fridays Ahead of World Ocean Day, we're mobilising global pressure for a #DeepSeaMining moratorium. Every Friday, we'll spotlight priority countries and invite supporters to email ministers directly through our advocacy platform.

Without the Habitats Directive, marine mammals, countless species, and #Natura2000 habitats are left defenseless. We have to protect the laws that protect #OurOcean! Tell the EU now: #HandsOffNature and ✍️sign here handsoffnature.eu #EUFisheries #MPAs #EUBiodiversity

The deep sea sustains life on Earth, and we're on the brink of damaging it forever. This #DeepDay, people from around the world are united to #DefendTheDeep 📽️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKwYoMdHwak

United to Defend The Deep

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New #DeepSeaMining science just dropped 🌊🔬 🐙 Clear risks of biodiversity loss ⏳ Impacts lasting decades 🌐 Ecosystems/species found nowhere else 🗺️ Most of the deep ocean still unexplored We are still discovering species… and already drafting extraction plans 🤔

“The question was never whether to mine.” A strong analysis of #DeepSeaMining recently out on @oceanographicmag.bsky.social. What stays unresolved is the assumption of inevitability. This is still a policy and governance choice, not a foregone outcome. #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed

Special feature: The deep sea and the race to mine the abyss

In a special report for Oceanographic, investigative journalist Luke McMillan takes a deep plunge into the murky depths of deep sea mining.

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The European Parliament sent a message on #DeepSeaMining today. 🌊⚖️ A new resolution passed today expects the #EU to take measures if the US were to start with the high-risk activity in defiance with international law. #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed

European Parliament backs EU action against unlawful US deep-sea mining plans - Seas At Risk

The European Parliament today adopted, with a strong majority, a resolution on international ocean diplomacy that presses for the European Union (EU) and its 27 Member States to respond to unlawful de...

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🎥 “Red Lines in the Abyss” unpacks why finance is stepping back from #DeepSeaMining. Watch our webinar now about: 👉 82 financial institutions 👉 €24 trillion in assets 👉 The sector's financial unviability Markets are saying no before the industry even starts. #KeepItInTheSeabed #DefendTheDeep

Webinar: Red Lines in the Abyss - Seas At Risk

As demand for critical minerals accelerates, attention is turning to ever more remote and fragile environments – including the deep sea. But deep-sea mining (DSM) comes with significant environmental,...

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Real resilience isn’t about securing more, but needing less 🔥 As more sectors compete for the same critical minerals, the EU's focus is on securing greater supply. But, what's a better path for the EU? - Reduce demand - use fewer materials - rethink key sectors Read more: bit.ly/3PY7K8l

India offered 13 offshore blocks for #DeepSeaMining. Result? 📉 Zero bids ⏳ Multiple extensions ❌ Auction paused Markets are sending a clearer signal than some policymakers: this industry is not ready, at all! #DefendTheDeep

India hits pause on offshore mining auction restart

India does not plan to go ahead with auctioning deep-sea mining rights due to a lack of technological preparedness and expectations of a weak response from pote

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Honoured to speak at the French Perm Rep in Brussels on why #DeepSeaMining needs a timeout. ⏸️🌊 We barely understand the deep ocean, yet some are ready to industrialise it. That makes no sense. Give science the space to catch up 🔬 Give nature the benefit of the doubt 🐙 #DefendTheDeep

Scientists just discovered 24 new species in one of the least explored parts of the planet - the #DeepSea. Same place some companies want to start #DeepSeaMining.

Dozens of deep-sea species discovered as new crustaceans named | Natural History Museum

Twenty-four new species of crustaceans have been discovered as part of a project to name 1,000 deep-sea animals by 2030

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🎥 Across the Mediterranean small-scale fishers see the value of #MarineProtectedAreas for healthier ecosystems & more resilient fisheries 🐟. But weak enforcement risks undermining them. #CommonFisheriesPolicy needs to be fully implemented✅. 👉 seas-at-risk.org/publications... #RethinkFisheries

🎥 Join our webinar 'Red Lines in the Abyss' (15/04)! 💰 #DeepSeaMining is facing growing financial pushback: 82 institutions (€24tn) have raised concerns or restrictions. What does this mean for the industry’s future? Register🔗 seas-at-risk.org/events/webin... #KeepItInTheSeabed #DefendTheDeep

New report out today: the maths of #DeepSeaMining don’t add up. Even the industry’s most hyped projects are now being called economically unviable. Maybe it’s time to stop gambling with the ocean and invest in solutions that actually work. 🌊 oceanographicmagazine.com/news/flagshi...

🌊 #DeepSeaMining or something more? A new investigation finds China’s “research” vessels spend just ~6% of their time in potential mining areas. The other time may be used to gather data useful for tracking #Submarines and #SubSeaCables. 👀 Worrying how the #DeepSea is getting too geopolitical! ❗

How deep-sea mining is growing China’s influence in the Pacific

China’s oceanographic fleet — the largest in the world — may serve strategic, military-use purposes.

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New legal analysis out: #EU law may not just allow a Pause on #DeepSeaMining… it could even require one.🌊 Legal experts argue this is the way to apply the #PrecautionaryPrinciple in face of scientific and governance uncertainty. #DefendTheDeep

Op-Ed: “Do EU Law and the Precautionary Principle Have Anything to Say on Deep-Sea Mining in the Area? A Potential Additional Normative Layer for the EU and its Member States” - EU Law Live

Introduction ‘Brussels should move quickly to agree on an international rule book on the extraction of critical minerals in international waters.’ These words, addressed in February 2026 to European d...

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HIRING: Consultant on Decarbonising Road Transport Beyond Mining-Intensive Pathways! 🚗⚡ For a report on cutting #CriticalRawMaterial demand in EU road transport. Experts in transport/climate policy, mobility systems & resource governance invited to apply by 19/04. seas-at-risk.org/wp-content/u...

1/3 The International Seabed Authority Council ends without a Mining Code amid industry compliance concerns. Unresolved issues ranged from environmental safeguards and liability to inspection, compliance, and benefit-sharing.

#ISA talks end with no #DeepSeaMining Code, and the gaps are now impossible to ignore. 🌊 Pushing ahead under these conditions is not responsible governance. It is a clear risk to the ocean.🚨 A #moratorium is the only credible path to fix this before damage is done. 🌍🐙 #DefendTheDeep

ISA COUNCIL ENDS WITHOUT MINING CODE AMID INDUSTRY COMPLIANCE CONCERNS - DSCC

Two weeks of International Seabed Authority (ISA) Council negotiations have concluded with no mining approved and no Mining Code adopted. Unresolved issues ranged from environmental safeguards and lia...

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Plot twist 🌊😅 A #DeepSeaMining company just formally walked back its own lofty growth claims. 📉Meanwhile the space gets more crowded with bold claims shiny decks and recycled buzzwords. ✨ #DefendTheDeep

Company that wants to mine ocean floor says it may have 'overstated' its growth potential

British Columbia Securities Commission asked a Vancouver company to take down promotional materials and review others for balance. Read on

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A 1.5°C future does NOT mean mining everything in sight 🌍⛏️Turns out, we already have the tools to cut mineral demand: ♻️ recycle more ⚡ use materials more efficiently 🔄 redesign systems to need less Thanks @greenpeace.org for the new report! #CircularEconomy #DemandReduction

Beyond Extraction: Pathways for a 1.5°C-aligned Energy Transition with Less Minerals - Greenpeace International

This global research - the first of its kind - shows that we can power an ambitious energy transition without sacrificing crucial ecosystems - whether on land or at sea.

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