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Posted on June 25, 2025

Cargo Ship That Caught Fire Carrying Electric Vehicles Sinks in the Pacific

Three weeks after a fire broke out on the ship off the coast of Alaska, the Morning Midas sank, along with thousands of cars on board.
Posted on June 5, 2025

Cargo Ship Carrying Electric Vehicles Burns Off Alaska

The U.S. Coast Guard said it would allow the fire to burn because the cars’ lithium-ion batteries could explode. The ship’s crew escaped on a lifeboat.
Posted on July 23, 2023

Pacific Seabed Mining Delayed as International Agency Finalizes Rules

Efforts to extract the metals used in car batteries have been pushed off amid pressure from environmentalists and nations that oppose them.
Posted on July 23, 2023

Pacific Seabed Mining Delayed as International Agency Finalizes Rules

Efforts to extract the metals used in car batteries have been pushed off amid pressure from environmentalists and nations that oppose them.
Posted on September 16, 2022

The Promise and Pitfalls of Deep-Sea Mining

How a Canadian company and a regulator are balancing billions of dollars in profits against the future of the Pacific.
Posted on August 29, 2022

Secret Data, Tiny Islands and a Quest for Treasure on the Ocean Floor

Mining in parts of the Pacific Ocean was meant to benefit poor countries, but an international agency gave a Canadian company access to prized seabed sites with metals crucial to the green energy revolution.

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