In this episode of Deeply Talks, Todd Woody, News Deeply's executive editor for environment, speaks with Conn Nugent, director of the Pew Charitable Trusts’ seabed mining project, Kristina Gjerde, a senior high seas adviser at the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Matthew Gianni, cofounder of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, about recent steps to regulate seabed mining and what impact mining could have on deep-sea ecosystems. For more information on plastic pollution and ocean news, visit www.newsdeeply.com/oceans and subscribe to our weekly emails.