
Must We Risk Destroying the Ocean to Save the Planet?
Dec 11, 2020 & warn against a headlong rush toward commercial deep-seabed mining of minerals needed for a green transition.
Sabine Christiansen, a marine biologist, is senior research associate at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, where she heads an interdisciplinary working group on the legal, financial, and environmental governance of deep-seabed mining.
Dec 11, 2020 & warn against a headlong rush toward commercial deep-seabed mining of minerals needed for a green transition.
After a gradual decade-long democratization process, Myanmar’s military seized power again in February and is waging a ruthless crackdown against unarmed civilian protesters. A major escalation of the ongoing turmoil – civil war is a growing possibility – would have implications far beyond the country’s borders.