How we tracked China’s deep-sea mining fleet

Mongabay
Jun 1, 2026, 4:33 pm127 ptsTrending
A version of this story was originally published by the Pulitzer Center, which supported Elizabeth Claire Alberts as an Ocean Reporting Network fellow. We didn’t set out to investigate China’s deep-sea mining fleet, but as our research into the burgeoning industry developed over our yearlong partnership, it…

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