Source: http://www.newswire.ca/
Canada identified a new ‘Area of Interest’ off its Pacific Coast, covering ~140,000 km2 and containing several seamounts and hydrothermal vent fields, for potential designation as an MPA by 2020.
24 May, 2017
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8 May, 2017
Source & Author: The Mainichi
A team of scientists from Japanese research institutes has confirmed low electric current around deep-sea hydrothermal vents, suggesting a possibility that such a current played a key role in the formation of life on Earth from organic matter in the ocean.
22 March, 2017
Summary of the presentation by Matthew Gianni, Co-Founder, Political and Policy Advisor, Deep Sea Conservation Coalition to the workshop entitled “Towards an ISA Environmental Management Strategy for the Area” co-sponsored by the government of Germany and the International Seabed Authority (ISA), Berlin, 20-24 March 2017.
16 December, 2016
Source: Gizmodo
Author: George Dvorsky
Marine biologists have discovered six new animal species in undersea hot springs nearly two miles deep in the southwest Indian Ocean—an area already slated for future seafloor mining.
Continue reading Bizarre New Deep Sea Creatures Found in Unexplored Hydrothermal Vents
8 December, 2016
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution yesterday calling on countries to redouble their efforts to protect deep-ocean species and ecosystems from the destructive impacts of deep-sea fishing.
31 May, 2016
Source: EurekAlert
Author: Oregon State University
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The hydrothermal vents and methane seeps on the ocean floor that were once thought to be geologic and biological oddities are now emerging as a major force in ocean ecosystems, marine life and global climate.
Continue reading Hydrothermal vents, methane seeps play enormous role in marine life, global climate
19 May, 2016
Source: Frontiers in Marine Science
Although initially viewed as oases within a barren deep ocean, hydrothermal vents and methane seep chemosynthetic communities are now recognized to interact with surrounding ecosystems on the sea floor and in the water column, and to affect global geochemical cycles. The importance of understanding these interactions is growing as the potential rises for disturbance of the systems from oil and gas extraction, seabed mining and bottom trawling.
Continue reading Hydrothermal Vents and Methane Seeps: Rethinking the Sphere of Influence
24 September, 2015
Source: Huffington Post
Author: Dr Lisa Levin
Many of us know that most of planet Earth is covered with ocean — about 70 percent. We probably should have been named planet Ocean. But how many know that most of our planet is covered with deep ocean? That ocean waters deeper than 200 meters (656 feet) cover about two-thirds of the surface of the planet and more than 95 percent of the habitable volume? Most of this vast area is unexplored. We know less about the bottom of the ocean than we do about the surface of the moon, and as a result, most of the biological species in the ocean remain undiscovered.
13 July, 2015
The International Seabed Authority (ISA) will commence its annual meeting this week, during which it will debate sweeping new regulations to open vast expanses of the deep ocean to seabed mining.
17 November, 2014
Concluding arguments in a case which could set international precedents for deep seabed mining were heard today, in Wellington, New Zealand.
Continue reading Hearing could Affect Global Spread of Deep Seabed Mining