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Deep-Sea Mining: The Environmental Tradeoff Nobody Wants to Have
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2026-05-12 20:09:32
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On the Pacific seafloor, at 4,000-6,000 meters depth, lie trillions of polymetallic nodules — potato-sized rocks containing manganese, cobalt, nickel, and copper. The exact minerals that EV batteries need. Deep-sea mining could supply them without the land-use conflicts and labor issues of terrestrial mining. But the seafloor ecosystem is unlike anything on land — and we barely understand it. The International Seabed Authority is supposed to regulate this. The debate over a moratorium vs. regulated extraction is one of the defining environmental questions of the decade. → [Read the full analysis](/node/1303)
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