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The Official Launch of Blue Earth Defense (BED)
Blue Earth Defense is a network of grassroots advocates, communities, and movements committed to defending life on Earth from the threats of extractivism, greenwashing, and systemic inequality. BED envisions a world rooted in autonomy, mutual aid, cooperation, solidarity, and direct action—where people and nature coexist in balance, and where communities chart their own paths toward resilience…
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NOAA Deep Seabed Mining: Revisions to Regulations for Exploration License and Commercial Recovery Permit
To National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in response to Deep Seabed Mining: Revisions to regulations for exploration license and commercial recovery permit applications ID NOAA-NOS-2025-0108-0001 Deep Sea Defenders is an all-volunteer international organization founded in September 2021. We are dedicated to protecting the integrity, stability and beauty of the deep sea environment, the organisms who…
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Ocean Acidification: What Does It Mean?
By Carl van Warmerdam First we need to know what an acid is. An acid is any substance (species) who’s molecules or ions are capable of donating a hydrogen ion proton (H+) to another substance in aqueous solution. The opposite of an acid is a base. Which is a substance who’s molecules or ions are…
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Greenwashing the Blue Economy
Editor’s Note: After exploiting almost every land on Earth, the industrial economy has now moved on to exploit the sea. Exploiters do not view the sea as many of us do: a deep body of water that is home to unimaginably large number of creatures. They see the sea as they view any other place…
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This is the Moment to Stop Deep Sea Mining
BY JULIA BARNES Image by TJ Fitzsimmons Can you imagine a mine so large it would span the continental United States? An industrial project this size is currently being planned. It is the first attempt at deep sea mining in international waters. The Clarion Clipperton Zone, an area located between Hawaii and Mexico in the…
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Stop Deep Sea Mining Before it Happens
BY JULIA BARNES This article was originally published in Counterpunch. Image by Julia Barnes Even as the ocean struggles under the assaults of industrial fishing, ocean warming, pollution, and acidification, corporations are pushing to exploit it in a new and dangerous way. Deep sea mining includes plans to extract polymetallic nodules from the sea floor. Commercial exploitation…
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5 Reasons to Ban Deep Sea Mining
BY JULIA BARNES Image by Sebastian Pena Lambarri Exploitation of the deep sea may begin in less than two years. Here’s why it should be stopped. If removed, polymetallic nodules would not recover on anything but a geological timescale. They grow incredibly slowly — at a rate of 10mm per million years. Drawing of a cross…
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The Green Deceit of Deep Sea Mining
BY JOSHUA CLINTON This article was originally published in Counterpunch. Image by Cameron Venti “To build a green future, in the next couple of decades the world will need to mine more metal than we’ve mined in our entire history” says Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company. There’s some truth to that statement — if we…
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