Norway has become the first country in the world to approve commercial-scale deep-sea mining. A bill passed by the Norwegian government on Tuesday (9 January 2024) will speed up the hunt for precious metals that are used in clean technologies, including lithium, scandium and cobalt. The government insists that it plans to be cautious and […]
A new report by wildlife conservation charity, Fauna & Flora, reveals growing evidence of the risks associated with deep-seabed mining, and concludes that its negative impacts are likely to be ‘extensive and irreversible’. Deep-seabed mining is the proposed process of retrieving mineral deposits from the deep seabed. Despite widespread concern that it could severely damage […]