US citizens: Support the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument.

Fishing and and toxic wastes (including CO2) endanger species that live in the deep ocean. Soon mining may do that too.

One mine, at a volcanic vent, could wipe out a species that lives only there.

Deep sea mining can be very useful — it could end some of the wars over "conflict minerals" and reduce the pollution of the land. But only if it is done safely.

Perhaps we should limit deep sea mining to collection of nodules by robots that can pick them up one at a time. Not by dragging nets along the sea bottom!

Texas prison thugs killed a prisoner by boiling his brain, as the heat in his cell gave him a fatal fever.

The water in the prison is unsafe to drink, so drinking more to stay cool is dangerous too.

Statistics from a few years ago showed that around 50 people a day died from effects of heat.

Finland works, quietly, to bury its nuclear reactor waste.

A year ago, the richest 8 men owned as much as the poorer half of humanity. As inequality grows, the richest 5 men now own almost as much as the poorer half of humanity.

Those men claim to deserve this great wealth because of the benefit that their work has provided to humanity, but the benefit is not so much and they depended on others (some of whom they ripped off).

The article embodies confusion and ignorance where it uses the term "intellectual property". I think the events in question involved copyright, and only copyright.