Amid haggling over deep-sea mining rules, chorus of skepticism grows louder
It starts with tiny deep-sea fragments — shark’s teeth or slivers of shell. Then, in a process thought to span millions of years, they get coated in layers of liquidized…
Author: elizabethalberts
‘We’ve got to help the oceans to help us’: Q&A with deep-sea explorer Dawn Wright
On July 12, oceanographer and geographer Dawn Wright was sealed inside a submersible, traveling to Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. Wright and…
In world first, Chile to ban single-use F&B products over three years
New legislation passed by the Chilean government in May 2021 aims to rid the nation of all single-use products in the food and beverage industry, including plastics, within three years.…