🌊 With no international rules yet for rare-earth mud mining, Japan’s next moves will set the precedent. Will it race ahead or help write the rules? 📖 Kaori Kohyama’s final installment for Toyo Keizai. https://loom.ly/URz8dJE #MiningTheUnknowns

☢️ 🌊 Japan’s deep-sea rare-earth mud contains radioactive thorium, and refining could concentrate it up to 100 times. So, who will refine it, and where will the waste go? 📖 Part 3 of Kaori Kohyama’s series for Toyo Keizai. https://loom.ly/jrjGhlk #MiningTheUnknowns #deepseamining #japan

🌊 Japan is racing to mine rare-earth mud from 6,000 meters deep, despite growing global calls for a moratorium and no impact assessment at commercial scale. In Parts 1 and 2 of her series for Toyo Keizai, Kaori Kohyama asks why. https://loom.ly/OXFGcsI #MiningTheUnknowns

Fiji wants a pause on deep-sea mining until the risks are clear. But exploration in its waters hasn’t stopped. The latest #MiningTheUnknowns story explores how to judge an industry’s safety when the ocean is still being explored. 👀 Read the full story: https://loom.ly/FcxQ9Oo

🚢 🐟 37 fishermen in China funded a deep-sea research vessel. Months after launch, it’s still waiting for its first job. The third #MiningTheUnknowns story, by Initium Media, looks at why China’s deep-sea business is struggling to catch up to its ambitious investments. 👀 https://loom.ly/BbU3_Xg

🌊 The Cook Islands is weighing whether to mine its seabed, home to some of the world's richest mineral deposits. Activists fear Indigenous Cook Islanders will bear the consequences. 📰 Losirene Lacanivalu reports for Cook Islands News in the latest from #MiningTheUnknowns. https://loom.ly/483IUSs

🌊 Explore #MiningTheUnknowns, our cross-border probe into Asia-Pacific deep-sea mining. South Korea has a hand in nearly every stage of the seabed supply chain, but no law for mining in international waters. Experts warn that gap puts Earth's least explored habitat at risk. https://loom.ly/rCtRGy8