A longread by Josefa Beyer, Nico Czaja, Friedrich Enders and Anna Groß
What comes to mind when you think of the deep sea? A pitch-black world with freezing temperatures and creatures as if from another planet , glowing in the dark? Or huge machines trawling the ocean floor, lighting up the abyss with their…
While the deep sea may seem like one of the last places on Earth untouched by humans, this may soon change. A growing push to mine the seabed for valuable minerals might turn this remote wilderness into the next battleground for industrial…