New #DeepSeaMining science just dropped 🌊🔬
🐙 Clear risks of biodiversity loss
⏳ Impacts lasting decades
🌐 Ecosystems/species found nowhere else
🗺️ Most of the deep ocean still unexplored
We are still discovering species… and already drafting extraction plans 🤔
The deep sea contains a wealth of mineral resources which have been explored for potential commercial use since the 1970s. As demand and technology make the mining of the seafloor a real possibility, ...