Organic carbon in marine sediments is a critical component of the global carbon cycle, and
its degradation influences a wide range of phenomena, including the magnitude of carbon …

A multitude of actions to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural and modified
ecosystems can have co‐benefits for both climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation …

A comprehensive understanding of the deep-sea environment and mining's likely impacts is
necessary to assess whether and under what conditions deep-seabed mining operations …

Midwater animal biodiversity: Squid, fish, shrimp, copepods, medusa, filter-feeding jellies,
and marine worms are among the midwater creatures that could be affected by deep sea …

Climate change manifestation in the ocean, through warming, oxygen loss, increasing
acidification, and changing particulate organic carbon flux (one metric of altered food …

Mining activities can pose negative, sometimes irreversible damage to ecosystems, yet
consequences for ecosystem services (ES) and their contribution to human wellbeing are …

Despite the recent increase in knowledge concerning microorganisms, the processes
determining their global distribution and functioning have not been disentangled. Microbial …

Active hydrothermal vents are oases for productivity in the deep ocean, but the flow of
dissolved substrates that fuel such abundant life ultimately ceases, leaving behind inactive …

Environmental regulations were concerned with support in reaction to the enormous
ecological harm caused by mining in the past. Because mining, dumping, and tailings can …

Polymetallic seafloor massive sulfides that are no longer hydrothermally active are a target
for an emergent deep-sea mining industry, but the paucity of ecological studies and …