It’s one of the more ambitious ideas in terms of dealing with carbon dioxide - burying it in pools of salty water beneath the seabed. Such an idea - if it worked - has the potential to safely store carbon dioxide for thousands of years.
The U.K.’s seabed is more valuable as a carbon sink absorbing pollution from industry than as a source of oil and natural gas, official estimates from the government’s Office for Nationals Statistics show.
A new report by the Deep Sea Mining Campaign and MiningWatch Canada examines the potential risks of seabed mining operations targeting polymetallic nodules.
