Deep Sea Polymetallic Nodule Mining Impacts

Undersea nodule mining might have a radioactive problem (Cosmos Magazine; 22 May 2023)

https://cosmosmagazine.com/technology/materials/undersea-nodule-mining-might-have-a-radioactive-problem/

Deep-Sea Mining’s Dirty Dilemma (Elham SHABAHAT, Hakai Magazine; April 20, 2023)

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/deep-sea-minings-dirty-dilemma/

Ocean scientists measure sediment plume stirred up by deep sea mining vehicle (Jennifer CHU, MIT News Office; September 21, 2022)

https://news.mit.edu/2022/sediment-deep-sea-mining-0921

Featured Research Articles:

Alpha radiation from polymetallic nodules and potential health risks from deep-sea mining (VOLZ et al., 2023)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-33971-w

Extent of impact of deep sea nodule mining midwater plumes is influenced by sediment loading, turbulence and thresholds (MUÑOZ-ROYO et al., 2021)

https://www.researchgate.net/journal/Communications-Earth-Environment-2662-4435/publication/353483138_Extent_of_impact_of_deep-sea_nodule_mining_midwater_plumes_is_influenced_by_sediment_loading_turbulence_and_thresholds/links/6100ed401e95fe241a91b60a/Extent-of-impact-of-deep-sea-nodule-mining-midwater-plumes-is-influenced-by-sediment-loading-turbulence-and-thresholds.pdf

Polymetallic nodules are essential for food-web integrity of a prospective deep-seabed mining area in the Pacific abyssal plains (STRATMAN et al., 2021)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-91703-4