Deep-sea wildernesses are more important than the promise of seafloor mining (analysis)

Mongabay
Apr 14, 2026, 2:23 pm76 ptsTrending
When I set sail on the MV NorSky in the summer of 2008 to probe the depths of Manus Basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea, I believed in the promise of deep-sea mining. As an early-career deep-sea ecologist, I was swayed by arguments in favor of this emerging industry. It offered a new way to obtain the…

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