As the lake filled, the water began to lift the glacier, carving a 25-kilometer-long tunnel beneath the ice, through which the water eventually burst into the world’s largest fjord, Scoresby Sound.

Even small disruptions to the ocean floor can persist for decades, and scientists are concerned that the sediment plumes from mining company vacuums will leave scars that, over human time scales ...

Deep-sea mining can also introduce harmful sediment plumes to fragile ecosystems leading to a growing number of countries ...

In the center image, captured in 2023, an island emerged with a sediment plume trailing away. In the final image taken December 25, 2024, a significantly reduced section of Kumani Bank was visible ...

The visible and near-infrared regions provide information on water turbidity, bathymetry, currents, and sediment plumes. (Water containing large quantities of suspended sediment has a higher ...

Recent research has focused on assessing the environmental implications of mining activities, the dynamics of sediment plumes generated during mining, and the engineering challenges associated ...

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