The review covers the development and the state of the art in deep-sea mining rock
mechanics, equipment and challenges. It begins by introducing the significance of deep-sea …

This Review focuses on whether the emerging industry of deep-seabed mining aligns with
the sustainable development agenda. We cover motivations for deep-seabed mining …

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 …

Climate change mitigation will create new natural resource and supply chain opportunities
and dilemmas, because substantial amounts of raw materials will be required to build new …

Ocean mining activities have been ongoing for nearly 70 years, making great contributions
to industrialization. Given the increasing demand for energy, along with the restructuring of …

The purpose of this article is to stimulate research on business strategies for biodiversity
protection. To that end, we first dispel a common misperception among business scholars …

The rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) has fueled a race to secure supplies of critical
minerals. A comprehensive review of the sustainability impacts of extractions of these …

Rising demand for minerals and metals, including for use in the technology sector, has led to
a resurgence of interest in exploration of mineral resources located on the seabed. Such …

The ocean is critically important to our global economy. Collectively, it is estimated that
ocean-based industries and activities contribute hundreds of millions of jobs and …

Deep-sea mining is likely to result in biodiversity loss, and the significance of this to
ecosystem function is not known.“Out of kind” biodiversity offsets substituting one ecosystem …