Locals concerned over deep-sea mining’s impact

PBS News Hour - 18 Sept 2024

In our globally connected lives, the companies that make the technology we rely on every day can run headlong into traditional cultures and the environment that sustains them.

Last night we featured a new potentially lucrative industry, deep-sea mining. Tonight, videographer Edward Kiernan and special correspondent Willem Marx return to Papua New Guinea and the Bismarck Sea, where locals are fighting back to preserve a vanishing way of life.