Deep sea surveys detect over 5,000 new species in future mining hotspot
Thursday, May 25, 2023 - 10:02
in Earth & Climate
There is a massive, mineral-rich region in the Pacific Ocean—about twice the size of India—called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), which has already been divided up and assigned to companies for future deep-sea mining. To better understand what may be at risk once companies start mining, a team of biologists has built the first "CCZ checklist" by compiling all the species records from previous research expeditions to the region.