{"id":26665,"date":"2025-04-25T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26665"},"modified":"2025-04-25T20:24:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T20:24:58","slug":"the-trump-administration-wants-seafloor-mining-what-does-that-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=26665","title":{"rendered":"The Trump Administration Wants Seafloor Mining. What Does That Mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A recent executive order would accelerate mining in little-understood undersea ecosystems.<\/p>\n

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Life at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean is slow, dark and quiet. Strange creatures glitter and glow. Oxygen seeps mysteriously from lumpy, metallic rocks. There is little to disturb these deep-ocean denizens.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s weird life down here,\u201d said Bethany Orcutt, a geomicrobiologist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. <\/p>\n

Research in the deep sea is incredibly difficult given the extreme conditions, and rare given the price tag.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order<\/a> that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the seabed for minerals. Scientists have expressed deep reservations that mining could irreversibly harm these deep-sea ecosystems before their value and workings are fully understood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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