What’s at stake if we mine the deep sea?
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The Importance of Mining the Seabed
A Pacific Island state called Nauru submitted a request to say that they wanted to start mining the seabed. The minerals are needed in order to make electric vehicle batteries and wind turbines. That two-year rule expired on Sunday, July 9th, so just recently, without any decision. And so now we're in a kind of limbo state.
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