December 19, 2024
The science of the deep sea and the technology to explore it are still in their relative infancy, and the vast majority of the seafloor remains unexplored. Despite how little is understood about this mysterious, potentially fragile ecosystem, there’s been growing interest in leveraging the minerals and rocks at the bottom of the ocean for human activities like deep-sea mining and carbon sequestration.
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