{"id":259629,"date":"2023-05-29T21:26:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T19:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=259629"},"modified":"2023-05-29T21:26:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T19:26:13","slug":"deep-sea-mining-controversy-hotspot-teems-with-mystery-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=259629","title":{"rendered":"Deep-sea mining controversy: hotspot teems with mystery\u00a0animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Tallbloke’s Talkshop<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 25, 2023 by\u00a0oldbrew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seabed mining<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s already friction<\/a> between some of the big car firms and the mining concerns, with the car people backing a moratorium but the miners insisting they wouldn\u2019t be able to produce enough for the EV markets without exploiting the sea bed.<\/em>
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A vast stretch of ocean floor earmarked for deep sea mining is home to thousands of oddball sea creatures, most of them unknown to science, says BBC News<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They include weird worms, brightly coloured sea cucumbers and corals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists have put together the first full stocktake of species to help weigh up the risks to biodiversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They say more than 5,000 different animals have been found in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The area is a prime contender for the mining of precious metals from the sea bed, which could begin as early as this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Companies want to exploit valuable deep-sea metals in international waters, but have yet to start extraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The place is \u201ea wonderfully weird environment\u201c with a plethora of creatures \u2013 \u201eeverything from strange [sea] cucumbers with elaborate sails on their back to beautiful glass sponges,\u201c said Muriel Rabone of the Natural History Museum in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201eWe need to know what the biodiversity is and what we may lose from any mining impacts,\u201c she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The researchers sifted through hundreds of scientific papers and thousands of records in databases to compile an inventory of life-forms in the zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the thousands of \u201eotherworldly\u201c, \u201ebeautiful\u201c and \u201eethereal\u201c animals recorded, only 400 are known to science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full article here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s already\u00a0friction\u00a0between some of the big car firms and the mining concerns, with the car people backing a moratorium but the miners insisting they wouldn\u2019t be able to produce enough for the EV markets without exploiting the sea bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":259633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818081,691819805,691818154,691819806],"class_list":["post-259629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-electric-cars","tag-ev-markets","tag-net-zero","tag-seabed-mining","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/0new-zealand-high-court-rules-against-taranaki-seabed-mining.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-15xz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":239191,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=239191","url_meta":{"origin":259629,"position":0},"title":"\u2018Rare Earths\u2019, Electrification Mandates, and Energy Security (Part II)","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"01\/12\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cWhat we have is one-way bureaucratic command-and-control making poor decisions with funding derived from captive consumers and one-sided radical agendas. 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