Mining the deep ocean https://arstechni.ca #seafloormining #Science #Policy #mining

Are you familiar with #SeafloorMining? There is a destructive president that wants to mine 100 million ocean acres in Alaska . That means death to many #EndangeredSpecies. Prevention is the only solution to greed and death of endangered species.

#SeafloorMining is highly destructive. It scrapes the ocean floor for metals and minerals, creating huge sediment plumes.

Around Alaska it would smother rich marine ecosystems and rare cold-water coral reefs — and it could hurt endangered species like Steller sea lions and bowhead #whales.

Essay: Global power struggles over the ocean’s finite resources call for creative diplomacy - Sight Magazine JONAS GAMSO and HOSSAIN AHMED TAUFIQ say the world’s oceans are becoming the "front line of 21st-century geopolitics"...

Essay: Global power struggles over the ocean’s finite resources call for creative diplomacy. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #oceans #geopolitics #Arctic #ArcticCouncil #fishing #HighSeasTreaty #US #China #Russia #EU #InternationalSeabedAuthority #seafloormining

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