Allow me introduce you to Ophiojura, a bizarre deep-sea animal observed in 2011 by scientists from the French Pure Record Museum, although trawling the summit of a secluded seamount termed Banc Durand, 500 metres under the waves and 200 kilometres east of New Caledonia in the southwest Pacific Ocean. […]
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Deep-Sea Mining: How to Balance Need for Metals with Ecological Impacts
Slashing humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels will involve billions of kilograms of steel: a single wind turbine can comprise more than a metric ton of copper, and electric car batteries demand from customers heaps of cobalt, nickel and manganese. Most of these metals now come from terrestrial mines—often at the […]