{"id":5532,"date":"2024-11-19T20:10:08","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T20:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www-prod.greenpeace.org\/usa\/deep-sea-mining\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T10:29:07","slug":"deep-sea-mining","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/usa\/deep-sea-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep Sea Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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Stop deep sea mining<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Deep sea mining is a destructive, extractive industry that is on course to cause irreversible impacts on ecosystems. Why would governments open up a new frontier in the ocean \u2014 and who is pushing them to do so?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A destructive industry <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The global Greenpeace network is working to prevent a new destructive extractive industry from ever getting started in the oceans. Our position: no deep sea mining, not ever! To achieve that, we are joining Pacific Island communities, champion nations, environmentally concerned companies, and dozens of allied organizations across the globe in calling for a UN moratorium on deep sea mining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a planetary emergency, why would governments open up a new frontier for mining in the ocean \u2014 and who is pushing them to do so? Greenpeace is working to prevent this potentially catastrophic, extractive industry from ever getting started in the oceans.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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What is Deep Sea Mining?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Deep sea mining is a new, highly-destructive extractive industry that is eager to start in our global oceans. Mining companies like Loke, The Metals Company, GSR, and Deep Green are seeking to profit by launching harmful and controversial mining methods on the planet\u2019s deep seabeds aimed at extracting minerals such as nickel and cobalt from over 400 meters depth into the ocean, and falsely claiming it as a necessary solution for the world\u2019s clean energy transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We now face a once in a generation opportunity to stop an industry from gaining a foothold and ravaging one of our last biodiverse boundaries: the precious ecosystems of the ocean\u2019s floor. We can defend this boundary by demanding that government policy makers, forward-thinking clean transportation, and tech companies take a stand.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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The creatures of the deep<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We know more about the surface of Mars and the moon than about the deep ocean. From underwater mountains providing oases for sea creatures to towering spires resembling sunken cities, the deep ocean is full of mysteries. As the largest habitable space on Earth, the deep ocean is home to ancient coral reefs sustaining the oldest known lifeforms, trenches deep enough to hold Mount Everest, and mysterious animals that can live for hundreds of years. Scientists discover new species on practically every voyage down to the depths.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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