Deep-sea mining requires the creation of a new set of regulations, mitigation measures, and auditing procedures for the companies operating in this sector. In this article, it is argued that …
In the last few years, the exploitation of deep-sea regions for minerals extraction raised international attention as an economically viable source for the mining industry. However …
The crises of climate change and biodiversity loss are interlinked and must be addressed jointly. A proposed solution for reducing reliance on fossil fuels, and thus mitigating climate …
S Liu, J Yang, H Lu, P Sun, B Zhang - Journal of Marine Science and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The discharge of sediment plumes, which occurs mainly in the two depth zones, has a critical impact on assessing the deep-sea environment. Therefore, it is necessary to …
The oceanic bottom mixed layer (BML) is a well mixed, weakly stratified, turbulent boundary layer. Adjacent to the seabed, the BML is of intrinsic importance for studying ocean mixing …
Cohesive particulate flows play an important role in environmental fluid dynamics, as well as in a wide variety of civil and process engineering applications. However, the scaling laws …
This study presents in situ, high-resolution optical measurements of particle size distributions (PSD) within sediment plumes generated by a pre-prototype deep seabed …
Z Liu, Q Rao, W Yi, W Huang - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2024 - Springer
Deep-sea mining inevitably produces plumes, which will pose a serious threat to the marine environment with the continuous movement and diffusion of plumes along with ocean …