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🤯 Our understanding of the deep seafloor is based on a small & biased sample.
There is still so much to understand before large-scale industrial activity should be considered in these environments.
🔎 Read the research:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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💰 Finance Friday: The Metals Company is relying U.S. pathways to reassure investors that it can mine sooner via a U.S. pathway.
Read our briefing paper - Shifting Tides which exposes the major holes in this plan
dsm-campaign.org/new-briefing...
#FinanceFridays #DSMC #ProtectOurOceans #StopDSM
😍 Meet the Scaly-foot snail - the only known animal to build metal into its armour.
The deep sea is home to countless special species like this, facing growing pressure from mining proposals.
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Vast amounts of carbon are stored in deep waters and seafloor sediments which help regulate Earth’s climate.
At a time of climate instability, deep sea mining puts one of our largest carbon stores at risk.
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⚠️ DSM causes ecological damage.
A recent study in Nature found 37% less density and 32% less species diversity of seafloor animals at a deep sea mining (DSM) test site.
Read the full study here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🤯 The deep ocean is just a few degrees above freezing worldwide.
Life here is adapted to cold, stable conditions, not sudden disturbance or industrial discharge.
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🧐 Some deep sea creatures are so striking they look unreal.
This one even has two v different eyes - one large green eye that looks up, and one smaller eye that looks down
Drop your guess below & we’ll reveal the answer tomorrow.
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🤯 Mindblown Monday: Siphonophores aren’t a single animal, but colonies made up of thousands of tiny, specialised clones working together as one drifting organism.
Deep sea mining would disturb the calm, clear water layers they depend on.
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😍 Meet the giant isopod (Bathynomus spp). These beauties act as scavengers, feeding on “marine snow” and larger food falls from above.
The deep sea is home to countless special species like this, facing growing pressure from mining proposals.
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🧐 This beautiful 'sea bug' lives in the deep ocean, where pressure is intense and food can be hard to come by.
Drop your guess in the comments 👇 and we’ll reveal the answer tomorrow.
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Much of the deep ocean floor is made up of extremely fine sediment. Fine particles from dsm would stay suspended for long periods, smothering life, disrupting feeding, and altering ecosystems far from where mining occurs.
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🧐 This deep-dwelling fish has upward-facing tubular eyes that can detect the faintest traces of light in the twilight zone.
Drop your guess in the comments 👇 and we’ll reveal the answer tomorrow.
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Meet the Fireworks Jellyfish with bioluminescent organs arranged in precise radial lines, glowing far below the reach of sunlight.
Species like this live in ecosystems we’re only beginning to understand, now under growing pressure from mining.
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🧐 With a light display fit for new years, this beautiful deep sea creature lives in the “midnight zone,” thousands of metres below the surface.
Drop a guess in the comments & we’ll reveal the answer tomorrow 👇
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🤯 Mindblown Monday
Deep sea bacteria produce chemical compounds that scientists are only just beginning to study. Some already show promise for new antibiotics and medicines.
The deep is full of potential, and it deserves protection.
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😍 Meet the woolly siphonophore (Apolemia lanosa): this isn't just one animal, but a colony of genetically identical individuals, working together as one.
Fragile life like this is why scientists urge caution on deep sea mining.
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🤯 Mindblown Monday: some deep sea species grow slowly, mature late, and live for centuries.
The life of the deep is built for stable conditions, so scientist warn recovery from disturbance is uncertain.
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🔈 “TMC’s commercial prospects look increasingly fragile, despite the hype.”
That’s the takeaway from a recent financial analysis examining regulatory uncertainty and political risk around deep sea mining.
finance.yahoo.com/news/tmcs-co...
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The deep sea doesn’t celebrate holidays - but it does glow, drift, pulse, and persist, quietly supporting life on our planet.
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Happy holidays from the DSMC team 💙
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🤯 Mindblown Monday: Challenger Deep is almost 11 km below the surface - it’s one of the least understood places on Earth, home to special species & fragile ecosystems.
The deep ocean is too important, and too poorly understood, to mine.
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😍 Meet the crystal amphipod (Cystisoma spp.)
Deep-sea hunters like this rely on clean, stable midwater conditions. Sediment plumes and disturbance from mining can interfere with visibility, feeding, and the fragile food webs they depend on.
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🎉 Norway has paused deep sea mining! This move follows strong scientific evidence, public pressure, and Indigenous Sámi voices calling for ocean protection 💙
People power works!
Share this post & help grow the global movement to stop DSM before it ever starts.
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🤯 Mindblown Mondays
We still don’t understand the full risks of disturbing the deep.
That’s reason enough to keep it untouched.
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🤯 Mindblown Mondays
In 2024, scientists reported that deep sea nodules may create oxygen in complete darkness.
While further research is needed, this possibility highlights how much we're yet to learn.
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🤯 Mindblown Mondays
It’s snowing in the deep sea - every day ❄️
Tiny fragments of plankton, waste, and debris drift down as marine snow, feeding deep-sea life and locking away carbon for millennia.
Protecting the deep means protecting life everywhere 🌍
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🤯 Mindblown Mondays
Whales use a deep-ocean “sound highway” to talk across entire ocean basins.
Deep-sea mining noise could block those calls.
The deep isn’t silent — it’s full of life worth protecting.
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We’re all for renewable resources and polymetallic nodules aren’t one of them.
When the mining industry says “they’ll grow back,” remember that means in tens of millions of years.
Deep-sea mining isn’t sustainable. It’s destructive and irreversible.
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🤯 Mindblown Mondays!
Ever thought about what it’s like 11km below the surface?
At the bottom of the Mariana Trench there's crushing pressure - yet life still thrives.
The deep ocean is special and irreplaceable - it must be protected.
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🤯 Mindblown Mondays
How do you spot your next snack and avoid hungry whales in near total darkness? With eyes as big as soccer balls! 👀
The deep sea holds life stranger than science fiction - and it needs protection.
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We don’t need deep-sea mining.
We need to:
✔ Reduce
✔ Reuse
✔ Repair
✔ Recycle
✔ Reimagine
Environment America shows that DSM is a reckless choice, not a necessity.
🔗 dsm-campaign.org/environment-...
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