Deep-sea mining is back in the headlines with the news that attendees at the IUCN World Congress voted overwhelmingly in favour of a mining moratorium. A powerful Time magazine article and video wades…
Highlights from DOSI News: an interview with DOSI Advisory Board’s Se-Jong Ju (deep-sea scientist from South Korea), a part-time communications job opportunity and a reminder of next week’s Beyond Plastic webinar. And that’s…
Se-Jong Ju, a member of the DOSI Advisory Board, is a Principal Research Scientist in the Deep-sea and Seabed Resources Research Division at the Korean Institute of Ocean Science and Technology. Please tell us…
Plastic often grabs the headlines and its pervasiveness in the natural environment, including the deep ocean, is both highly visible and alarming. But plastic is far from being the only anthropogenic pollutant impacting…
Deep-dwelling cookiecutter sharks feature in the media this week following a new study on their diet and habitat, which reveals their reliance on critters rather than the chunks of larger prey (including humans)…
This week, the media can’t get enough of a shape-shifting whale fish captured on film, while the discovery of a shark nursery off Israel continues to generate headlines. A new paper considers whether…
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A bumper edition this week with plenty of deep-sea research hitting the headlines. Amongst these is an eagerly-anticipated MIT paper on the impact and scale of deep-sea nodule mining midwater plumes. Also, architects…