Mar. 17, 2021 — Along submarine mountain ranges, the mid-ocean ridges, forces from the Earth's interior push tectonic plates apart, forming new ocean floor and thus moving continents about ...

UN Summit advances ocean protection, vows to defend seabed. A global oceans summit wrapped up Friday with world leaders taking major steps toward marine protection and vowing a showdown when ...

Nations advance ocean protection, vow to defend seabed. ... Activists had pushed for a total ban on this kind of trawling, which uses heavy weighted nets dragged across the ocean floor.

In the deepest parts of the ocean, below 4,000 meters, the combination of high pressure and low temperature creates conditions that dissolve calcium carbonate, the material marine animals use to ...

Polymetallic nodules containing certain critical minerals can be found scattered across the seabed in some parts of the ocean. Here, manganese nodules found off the Southeastern U.S. in 2019.

Now, a new threat looms on the horizon: seabed sand mining in the Arabian Sea. In November 2024, ... Dredging the ocean floor for sand disrupts delicate marine habitats, ...

Back to homepage / Live news Nations advance ocean protection, vow to defend seabed. Nice (France) (AFP) – A global oceans summit wrapped up Friday with world leaders taking major steps toward ...

Nodules containing valuable metals can be found scattered across the seabed in some parts of the ocean. Here, manganese nodules found off the Southeastern U.S. in 2019.

A global oceans summit wrapped up Friday with world leaders taking major steps toward marine protection and vowing a showdown when nations meet to negotiate rules for deep-sea mining next month.

A global oceans summit wrapped up Friday with world leaders taking major steps toward marine protection and vowing a showdown when nations meet to negotiate rules for deep-sea mining next month.

The “World’s Largest Ocean Dispute” campaign, launching on Wednesday, has divided the deep seabed into 8.17 billion GPS coordinates — representing one for every person on the planet ...