Ocean animals vacate areas both around and outside deep-sea mining operations

ScienceDaily
Jul 14, 2023, 3:34 pm146 pts
In 2020, Japan performed the first successful test extracting cobalt crusts from the top of deep-sea mountains to mine cobalt -- a mineral used in electric vehicle batteries. Not only do directly mined areas become less habitable for ocean animals, but mining also creates a plume of sediment that can spread…

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