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.
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.
Efforts to extract the metals used in car batteries have been pushed off amid pressure from environmentalists and nations that oppose them.
Efforts to extract the metals used in car batteries have been pushed off amid pressure from environmentalists and nations that oppose them.
How a Canadian company and a regulator are balancing billions of dollars in profits against the future of the Pacific.
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.