The Mining Industry’s Next Frontier Is Deep, Deep Under the Sea
The nodules have been growing, in utter blackness and near-total silence, for millions of years. Each one started as a fragment of something else—a tiny fossil, a scrap of basalt,…
The Race to Rebuild the World’s Coral Reefs
In the late 1990s, Vaughan learned that Aqua Life, an ornamental-fish-breeding operation on a small island in the Bahamas, was shutting down. Harbor Branch made a bid to buy what…