An Indonesian navy diver gives to a colleague debris of Sriwijaya air flight SJ 182 retrieved from the seafloor of Java sea at Naval warship KRI Rigel (933) during the search and rescue operation, at the sea off the Jakarta coast, Indonesia, January 12, 2021. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan 

An Indonesian navy diver gives to a colleague debris of Sriwijaya air flight SJ 182 retrieved from the seafloor of Java sea at Naval warship KRI Rigel (933) during the search and rescue operation, at the sea off the Jakarta coast, Indonesia, January 12, 2021. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan 

An Indonesian navy diver shows debris of Sriwijaya air flight SJ 182 retrieved from the seafloor of Java sea at Naval warship KRI Rigel (933) during the search and rescue operation, at the sea off the Jakarta coast, Indonesia, January 12, 2021. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan 

Polymetallic, or manganese, nodules are displayed at the the booth of DeepGreen Resources, a seafloor mining startup, during the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) annual convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 4, 2019. REUTERS/Chris Helgren 

A polymetallic, or manganese, nodule is displayed the the booth of DeepGreen Resources, a seafloor mining startup, during the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) annual convention in Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 4, 2019. REUTERS/Chris Helgren 

Greenpeace brought Reuters photo and television journalists along for a segment of the voyage, bringing them on the Arctic Sunrise from Chile through the rough waters of the Drake Passage, to the Antarctic Peninsula Ð which was brimming with wildlife. Photographer Alexandre Meneghini: "The trip began in Punta Arenas, the capital of Magallanes region, Chile. We had spent three days aboard the Arctic Sunrise, a Greenpeace ship docked in one of the city's harbours, to test our equipment and conduct security drills. I was eager to get to Antarctica. Greenpeace, the global environmental group, organised the journey to raise awareness of, and support for, a European Union proposal to create the biggest protected area on Earth in Antarctica. The plan was to create a safe haven for marine life there from industrial fishing. The strategy involved documenting the effects of climate change, pollution and fishing on native wildlife. Pictures and video footage, specimen samples from the Antarctic seafloor, and surface water sampling for microplastics were all collected by Greenpeace to help build the case for the sanctuary." REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini SEARCH "ANTARCTICA" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY. Matching text: CLIMATECHANGE-ANTARCTICA/ 

MINING-OCEANS/ - Graphic describing how seafloor mining works. (SIN04) 

Bahamian police and rescue workers refloat a sunken boat (front) next to a spot where two bodies were found on the seafloor, offshore of Holmes Rock, a small settlement in West Grand Bahama Island, July 19, 2013. The police earlier found six bodies washed up on the beach, including a child, for a total of eight dead. Assistant commissioner of police, Hulan Hanna, told local media they believe the bodies were of migrants trying to make their way to the United States. Picture taken July 19, 2013. REUTERS/Vandyke Hepburn (BAHAMAS - Tags: DISASTER POLITICS MARITIME) 

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Bahamian police and rescue workers stand near one of the six bodies of people, including a child, found on the beach in Holmes Rock, a small settlement in West Grand Bahama Island, July 19, 2013. The police later found a small boat sunken offshore the same beach with two more bodies on the seafloor, for a total of eight dead. Assistant commissioner of police, Hulan Hanna, told local media they believe the bodies were of migrants trying to make their way to the United States. Picture taken July 19, 2013. REUTERS/Vandyke Hepburn (BAHAMAS - Tags: DISASTER POLITICS) 

A Deeptrek team member dives by a section of ship wreckage near Drake's Point off Panama's Caribbean coast October 29, 2011. Deeptrek is a team of professionals that believes the Caribbean wreckage likely belonged to two of the last ships commanded by legendary English adventurer Sir Francis Drake before his death in 1596. Picture taken October 29, 2011. REUTERS/Rico Oldfield/Deeptrek-IMDI Eco Olas/Handout (PANAMA - Tags: SOCIETY) 

TSUNAMI-CORRECTION/ - Correcting Indo-European Plate to Indo-Australian Plate. A series of 3D illustrations comparing the 2004 Aceh and 2009 Samoa earthquakes, also explains how tsunamis occur. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by a major earthquake under the seafloor off Sumatra. RNGS (SIN01) 

TSUNAMI-CORRECTION/ - Correcting Indo-European Plate to Indo-Australian Plate. A series of 3D illustrations comparing the 2004 Aceh and 2009 Samoa earthquakes, also explains how tsunamis occur. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by a major earthquake under the seafloor off Sumatra. RNGS (SIN01) 

TSUNAMI-ANNIVERSARY/ - A series of 3D illustrations comparing the 2004 Aceh and 2009 Samoa earthquakes, also explains how tsunamis occur. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by a major earthquake under the seafloor off Sumatra, Indonesia. RNGS (SIN01) 

TSUNAMI-ANNIVERSARY/ - A series of 3D illustrations comparing the 2004 Aceh and 2009 Samoa earthquakes, also explains how tsunamis occur. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was caused by a major earthquake under the seafloor off Sumatra, Indonesia. RNGS (SIN01) 

Seaweed farmer Nyafu Juma Uledi ties her crop to string in tidal pools near the village of Bwejuu on Zanzibar island, Tanzania, December 2, 2007. Local women have earned a degree of financial independence by farming seaweed in Zanzibar, which exports more than 10,000 tonnes a year to Asian markets, making the crop one of the Tanzanian island's main foreign currency earners after tourism. Picture taken December 2, 2007. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly (TANZANIA) 

- PHOTO TAKEN 16APR05 - A Kazakh man walks past a boat lying in sand that once formed the bed of the Aral Sea, near the village of Karateren, southwestern Kazakhstan April 16, 2005. Once the world's fourth largest lake, the Aral has shrunk so much that it has now split into two separate bodies of water. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been running an Aral Sea Programme since 1995, focusing mainly on water resources management, small business development, humanitarian assistance and a social and health programme as the ecological disaster of the dying sea has brought about a host of associated health problems. 

Children run past ruined ships abandoned in sand that once formed the bed of the Aral Sea near the village of Zhalanash, south-western Kazakhstan. Children run past ruined ships abandoned in sand that once formed the bed of the Aral Sea near the village of Zhalanash, in south western Kazakhstan, April 17, 2005. Once the world's fourth largest lake, the Aral has shrunk so much that it has now split into two separate bodies of water. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been running an Aral Sea Programme since 1995, focusing mainly on water resources management, small business development, humanitarian assistance and a social and health programme as the ecological disaster of the dying sea has brought about a host of associated health problems. Picture taken April 17, 2005. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov 

- UNDATED FILE PHOTO - Danish researchers said January 28 they had found what they think may be evidence of the oldest life on Earth - a signature left by plankton 3.7 billion years ago. There is no standard fossil evidence of the plankton, but Minik Rosing and colleagues at the Geologisk Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark, looked for a chemical signature in ancient rocks in west Greenland, shown in this undated photo. Rosing's group examined microscopic globules of graphite, which is pure carbon, from metamorphic rocks known to be 3.7 billion years old and known to have once been seafloor sediment.