deep sea mining

  • An Enormous Deep Sea ‘Desert’ Is Teeming With New Forms Of Life

    An Enormous Deep Sea ‘Desert’ Is Teeming With New Forms Of Life

    It doesn’t have towering canopies or jewel-toned corals, but an enormous region of the eastern Pacific that was long considered a biological wasteland is proving to be anything but. New research reveals that the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ), which is being prospected for deep ocean mining, is teeming with never-before-seen forms of life.