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TMC Own Analysis Shows Their Project “cannot be profitable”
By Deep Sea Mining Campaign We’ve just released a new independent analysis of The Metals Company’s deep-sea mining plans, and the findings are clear: On its own numbers, this project makes no meaningful profit and then collapses. The report, authored by mining analyst Dr. Steven H. Emmerman, assesses TMC’s pre-feasibility study against recognised mining and financial…
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Indigenous Rights, The Environment, And International Law
“This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Indigenous advocates who have been fighting for their rights to be acknowledged in global regulations for seabed mining are bracing for the outcome of this week’s gathering of the International Seabed Authority in Jamaica, where representatives from three dozen countries are…
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Deep-sea Mining Discharge Can Disrupt Midwater Food Webs
Dowd, M.H., Assad, V.E., Cazares-Nuesser, A.E. et al. Deep-sea mining discharge can disrupt midwater food webs. Nat Commun 16, 9575 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65411-w The Clarion-Clipperton Zone contains extensive beds of polymetallic nodules on the abyssal seafloor, with vast areas (~1.5 million km2) under license for deep-sea mining. Mining companies have proposed discharging excess waste generated during nodule extraction in the…
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Tell NOAA No To TMC
NOAA is about to decide whether or not to move towards deep sea mining that could demolish this Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ). Tell NOAA: Don’t allow deep sea mining. Sitting on the seafloor are thousands of potato-sized nodules made of metals that act as anchors for sensitive sea life. Now mining companies want to vacuum up…
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A Solution Looking For A Problem
On Wednesday, January 21, 2026, at 2:15 p.m., in room 1334 Longworth House Office Building, the Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, held an oversight hearing titled “Deep Dive: Examining the Regulatory and Statutory Barriers to Deep Sea Mining.” What this U.S. congressional hearing unintentionally reveals is a deeper global struggle…
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A Deep-Sea Delusion Backed by Broken Promises and Sinking Credibility
BMF Reports A forensic deep dive into The Metals Company (NASDAQ: TMC)—revealing how a deep-sea mining startup, propped up by ESG hype and SPAC euphoria, may be replaying one of the most catastrophic commodity failures of the last decade. Backed by no revenue, no license, and a microstate partnership, TMC’s story raises serious questions about…
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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…