The campaigners who say “ban it all” and the contractors who say “it’s basically empty down there” are both flattening a story that refuses to be flat. That refusal is exactly why this review paper is worth reading.
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I’ve been interested in this topic for a while, and when my friend Gilles sent me this paper , Glover, A.G. et al., 2026, “The environmental impacts of deep-sea mining,” Current Biology 36, R400–R4...