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Key points The video is an animated 3D illustration depicting The Metals Company’s planned system for collecting polymetallic nodules from the deep sea floor. It shows the process of bringing the nodules to the surface and transporting them for processing. The company describes the…

Key points CEO Gerard Barron answers a question from Mandy Weese, HSE Advisor and Paramedic aboard the Maersk Launcher, on how he would explain DeepGreen’s work to a class of kindergarteners. Barron frames the company’s seafloor polymetallic nodules as a supply of metals needed…

Key points Lucía Alejandra Villar Muñoz, from Chile, joined DeepGreen’s environmental expedition to the Clarion Clipperton Zone. Her participation is part of the International Seabed Authority’s training program.

Key points DeepGreen CEO Gerard Barron tells Yale/Brown lecturer Cary Krosinsky that the low-carbon transition needs significantly more metals than today’s supply. Barron says land ore grades are falling, pushing mining into more biodiverse habitats and releasing more carbon as CO2. He…

Key points The Metals Company is exploring an area of the Clarion Clipperton Zone in the Pacific Ocean roughly 4km deep. A box core’s round trip from the surface to the seabed and back takes about three hours.

Key points Nauru was the first developing country to participate in the International Seabed Authority (ISA). Nauru Minister Rennier Gadabu says the country partnered with DeepGreen to be part of the solution as the world moves away from fossil fuel industries. DeepGreen’s Chief Ocean…

Key points DeepGreen CEO Gerard Barron tells Yale/Brown lecturer Cary Krosinsky that the green transition could come at a very heavy environmental price if metals keep coming from land-based mining. The company’s analysis covers full lifecycle carbon sequestration, CO2 emissions and…

Key points Dr. Gregory Stone, DeepGreen’s Chief Ocean Scientist, discusses the company’s environmental case with Rennier Gadabu, Nauru’s Minister for Commerce, Industry, Environment, Climate Change and Infrastructure Development. Stone argues deep-sea mineral extraction…

Key points Gerard Barron of DeepGreen and Yale’s Cary Krosinsky identify climate change as the top existential environmental crisis, citing recent protests including 500,000 marchers in Montreal. They note that water, biodiversity, forests, oceans, coral reefs and food security are…

Key points DeepGreen CEO Gerard Barron says the company is on the verge of becoming the first to extract minerals from the seafloor, calling it “a big responsibility to be first.” Barron says the area DeepGreen operates in contains enough polymetallic nodules to satisfy future…