The announcement of Strohm’s contract with Allseas in February 2021 didn’t exactly create the kind…
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Indeep Project: The INDEEP Project exists to bridge the gap between deep-sea science and the policies that govern our oceans. Through international collaboration, rigorous research, and open communication, indeep-project.org documents the biology, ecology, and fragility of deep-sea ecosystems — and advocates for the sustainable management that can preserve them for future generations.
There are billions of undisturbed polymetallic nodules on the seafloor somewhere in the Pacific Ocean,…
Just before Jialing Cai rolls backward off the side of a boat at midnight, the…
The race to mine the deep sea has a subtle unsettling quality. It’s not visible…
The idea of a platform the height of a forty-story building, sitting in almost complete…
A picture of a construction crew somewhere deep underground, knee-deep in water that shouldn’t be…
The idea of extracting gold and copper from the ocean floor, thousands of meters below…
When a weather satellite silently drifted in geostationary orbit over the Western Hemisphere early on…
When the topic of Arctic drilling comes up again, a certain silence falls over the…
The idea of vast, frigid Alaskan waters, kelp swaying in the current, and oyster beds…