{"id":219665,"date":"2026-04-14T16:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=219665"},"modified":"2026-04-14T16:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T16:48:03","slug":"japans-unprecedented-project-could-test-the-limits-of-deep-sea-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=219665","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s unprecedented project could test the limits of deep-sea mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is spending five weeks mining the seafloor. It is a technological milestone \u2014 and a stress test for how nations balance geopolitics, clean energy demand, and environmental risk&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/international\/japans-unprecedented-project-could-test-the-limits-of-deep-sea-mining\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan is spending five weeks mining the seafloor. It is a technological milestone \u2014 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219665-japans-unprecedented-project-could-test-the-limits-of-deep-sea-mining.jpeg",1600,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219665-japans-unprecedented-project-could-test-the-limits-of-deep-sea-mining-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219665-japans-unprecedented-project-could-test-the-limits-of-deep-sea-mining-300x169.jpeg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219665-japans-unprecedented-project-could-test-the-limits-of-deep-sea-mining-768x432.jpeg",640,360,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219665-japans-unprecedented-project-could-test-the-limits-of-deep-sea-mining-1024x576.jpeg",640,360,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219665-japans-unprecedented-project-could-test-the-limits-of-deep-sea-mining-1536x864.jpeg",1536,864,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219665-japans-unprecedented-project-could-test-the-limits-of-deep-sea-mining.jpeg",1600,900,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219665-japans-unprecedented-project-could-test-the-limits-of-deep-sea-mining-1024x576.jpeg",1024,576,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219665-japans-unprecedented-project-could-test-the-limits-of-deep-sea-mining-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/219665-japans-unprecedented-project-could-test-the-limits-of-deep-sea-mining-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}