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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
More Lithium Greenwashing Comes to Nevada
Are a series of new lithium-battery projects in Nevada a disaster waiting to happen? This piece was originally published on June 29th, 2025 in This is Reno, northern Nevada’s weekly. Featured image: Fire at the Moss Landing power plant in Monterey, California on January 16th. Photo by GuyC, CCby2.0. By Max Wilbert Two major projects […]
State orders lithium mine to stop unauthorized water pumping, citing rancher dispute
Editor’s note from Protect Thacker Pass: This story, which broke last week, is the latest roadblock for Lithium Nevada Corporation. Mr. Bartell’s relentless resistance to the Thacker Pass mine must be commended. He was always kind to us at Thacker Pass, and has fought this project long and hard. Based on this decision, LNC must […]
Press Release: Activists Sued by Mining Company Tell Their Stories
Press Release: Activists Sued by Mining Company Tell Their Stories The “Thacker Pass Six,” sued in 2023 following protests, include a disabled Paiute spiritual elder, a Shoshone mother of four, and a Tribal attorney. WINNEMUCCA, NV — Six people who were sued by Lithium Nevada Corporation last year for protesting the Thacker Pass lithium mine are […]
Talking The Wrong Way About Carbon
The climate movement is talking about carbon all wrong, a new book argues Carbon isn’t an enemy to “combat” or “tackle,” the environmentalist Paul Hawken writes, but the animating force of life “This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.” Burning oil, gas, and coal — literal fossil fuels, […]