Electrochemical devices like batteries and fuel cells help power our modern lives. These devices traditionally contain a ...

Mining of polymetallic nodules from the seabed might lead to significant and long-lasting ecological changes -- both in the mined area, where surface sediments and the fauna living in and on it are ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and ...

Since 2015, the European JPI Oceans project MiningImpact, coordinated by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, has been investigating the potential environmental impacts of deep-sea ...

Dr Gary Kinsland "Typical ripples, from wind, water current or waves form by erosion, movement and redeposition of individual particles. The material upon/within which the megaripples imaged here ...

The study, now published in Nature Communications, provides the first detailed data on the far-field spatial footprint of mining-induced plume dispersion and redeposition beyond the mining area itself ...