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Seabed Spotlight

Daniel Ackerman

A newsletter about deep seabed mining

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Trump administration takes another step toward mining on the high seas

Last April, The Metals Company spurned the ISA – the body most countries view as the rightful regulator of mining on the high seas – when the firm announced it had applied for unilateral permission from the Trump administration to explore a...

4 months ago
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Cook Islands delays seabed mining

Deep seabed mining may not happen in the Cook Islands this decade.

The Pacific nation’s Seabed Minerals Authority announced last week that it will extend the exploration phase of mining activity until 2032, five years beyond an initial dea...

6 months ago
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Who supports deep seabed mining and why?

For years, deep seabed mining (DSM) has been mostly a question of geopolitics. But with President Trump’s executive order, potential lease sales in federal waters, and support from some in Congress, it’s quickly becoming a domestic politica...

6 months ago
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Won’t somebody please think of the cables?

The ocean is criss-crossed with data cables. (Greg Mahlknecht, OpenStreetMap)

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) received 76,443 public comments regarding its plan to lease U.S. waters for mining off the coast of American Samoa....

8 months ago
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Meet the company at the center of the U.S.–Cook Islands mining pact

The U.S. and Cook Islands struck a deal this month to cooperatively develop seabed minerals in the Pacific nation’s vast Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

Given the Trump administration’s embrace of deep-sea mining, the Cook Islands seems a l...

9 months ago
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  • Daniel Ackerman

    I'm a science journalist, mainly covering climate and the environment. My work has appeared on National Public Radio, 99% Invisible, The Washington Post and Scientific American. I'm a lapsed scientist, with a PhD in climate change ecology.

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