Climate Change
Trump’s New Executive Order Promotes Deep Sea Mining in US and International Waters While Bypassing International Law
Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained about fragile deep sea ecosystems.
In 2013, a deep sea mining company named UK Seabed Resources contracted marine biologist Diva Amon and other scientists from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to survey a section of the seafloor in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a vast swath of international waters located in the Pacific Ocean that spans around 2 million square miles between Hawaii and Mexico.