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Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone

  • Written by Alexus Cazares-Nuesser, Ph.D. Candidate in Biological Oceanography, University of Hawaii
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zoneA cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet – where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

This is the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem...

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