Deep Sea Abyss, New Mining Frontier, Harbors Unexpected Life

The ocean is one of the last frontiers on Earth. But the world's ever-growing need for minerals and metals is pushing humans to boldly go where no human has gone before and they’re finding new life in the process. Scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa studied a 900 square kilometer region in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) in the Pacific Ocean. Their mission: to seek out new life and new marine civilizations. They published the results of their first deep sea dive in the...

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