Deep-sea mining endangers rare species, threatening biodiversity in the ocean's depths and raising critical questions about ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized ...

Deep sea mining has been off limits thus far ... international seabeds for polymetallic nodules (potato-sized mineral deposits containing nickel, copper, cobalt, and manganese lying unattached ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover from the impact ... “These nodules are potato-sized mineral deposits that have built up in layers over thousands of years. Mining companies ...

Marine life in the deep ocean can take decades to recover ... in the central Pacific Ocean of deep-sea mining for mineral deposits known as nodules that contain rare metals like cobalt, manganese ...