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Deep seabed mining plans pit renewable energy demand against ocean life in a largely unexplored frontier

  • Written by Scott Shackelford, Professor of Business Law and Ethics, Indiana University
imageDeep sea sponges and other creatures live on and among valuable manganese nodules like this one that could be mined from the seafloor.ROV KIEL 6000/GEOMAR

As companies race to expand renewable energy and the batteries to store it, finding sufficient amounts of rare earth metals to build the technology is no easy feat. That’s leading mining...

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