Deep-sea Mining Discharge Can Disrupt Midwater Food Webs
Dowd, M.H., Assad, V.E., Cazares-Nuesser, A.E. et al. Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs. Nat Commun 16, 9575 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65411-w The Clarion-Clipperton Zone contains extensive beds of polymetallic nodules on the abyssal seafloor, with vast areas (~1.5 million km2) under license for deep-sea mining. Mining companies have proposed discharging excess waste generated during nodule extraction in the […]
Tell NOAA No To TMC
NOAA is about to decide whether or not to move towards deep sea mining that could demolish this Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). Tell NOAA: Don’t allow deep sea mining. Sitting on the seafloor are thousands of potato-sized nodules made of metals that act as anchors for sensitive sea life. Now mining companies want to vacuum up […]
A Solution Looking For A Problem
On Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at 2:15 p.m., in room 1334 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, held an oversight hearing titled “Deep Dive: Examining the Regulatory and Statutory Barriers to Deep Sea Mining.” What this U.S. congressional hearing unintentionally reveals is a deeper global struggle […]
A Deep-Sea Delusion Backed by Broken Promises and Sinking Credibility
BMF Reports A forensic deep dive into The Metals Company (NASDAQ: TMC)—revealing how a deep-sea mining startup, propped up by ESG hype and SPAC euphoria, may be replaying one of the most catastrophic commodity failures of the last decade. Backed by no revenue, no license, and a microstate partnership, TMC’s story raises serious questions about […]
The Official Launch of Blue Earth Defense (BED)
Blue Earth Defense is a network of grassroots advocates, communities, and movements committed to defending life on Earth from the threats of extractivism, greenwashing, and systemic inequality. BED envisions a world rooted in autonomy, mutual aid, cooperation, solidarity, and direct action—where people and nature coexist in balance, and where communities chart their own paths toward resilience […]
NOAA Deep Seabed Mining: Revisions to Regulations for Exploration License and Commercial Recovery Permit
To National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in response to Deep Seabed Mining: Revisions to regulations for exploration license and commercial recovery permit applications ID NOAA-NOS-2025-0108-0001 Deep Sea Defenders is an all-volunteer international organization founded in September 2021. We are dedicated to protecting the integrity, stability and beauty of the deep sea environment, the organisms who […]
The False Solution Of Renewable Energy Harvesting Technologies
The False Solution Of Renewable Energy Harvesting Technologies How will climate change and the destruction of the natural world affect the future? No one knows for sure, but the most-likely outcomes do not look good unless we do something radically different from what is being done now. Many people assume “renewables” are automatically good. The […]
Why Women Matter
Why Women Matter We came from our mothers. Every individual and culture is rooted in women. Ancient cultures all across the world were matriarchal, putting mothers and maternal values as the central guiding force of society. The shift to patriarchy was gradual and violent. The state of the world that we live in, the rampant […]
Position Paper: Honoring Indigenous Peoples and Their Ecological Wisdom
Position Paper: Honoring Indigenous Peoples and Their Ecological Wisdom Indigenous Peoples have lived in deep relationship with the Earth for thousands of years, embodying ecological knowledge systems that are critical for addressing today’s global crises. Their communities safeguard much of the world’s cultural and biological diversity, offering models of sustainability that stand in contrast to […]
War: The Machinery of the State and Industrial Civilization
Involvement with Affected Communities and Advocacy Groups War has often been portrayed as an inevitable aspect of human existence. Yet, when examined closely, war is not simply the outcome of human nature but a byproduct of a particular social order: the state and the industrial civilization it sustains. War emerges as a tool to secure […]