KingstonJamaica hosts the body deciding deep-sea mining rules.
Sediment plumes and lost habitat could thin the food chain Jamaican fishers depend on.
Mining lifts cobalt, copper, manganese and nickel from seabed below 1,000 metres, minerals used in batteries and wind turbines.
“We don’t really know what the impacts [of deep-sea mining] could fully be,” said Duke University geographer Jesse Cleary.
The International Seabed Authority is still debating how and under what conditions mining might proceed.
How each outlet framed it
- Global Voices leans critical
- foregrounds Jamaica's fisherfolk livelihoods and cultural identity threatened by seabed mining's sediment plumes cascading through food chains
Sources: Global Voices