A University of Liverpool study published in Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene found that a 1979 deep-sea mining test in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone left measurable reductions in seafloor organic matter quality and quantity more than 44 years later,…
To what extent does bottom trawling impact the seafloor of the Baltic Sea—and how quickly does it recover? Two new studies from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) show that the marks on the seafloor provide a much clearer…
New PML-led research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution finds that strategically adding protected 'corridor' sites in the Clarion Clipperton Zone could increase larval exchange between existing ISA reserves by more than 400-fold, strengthening…
