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In 1979, A Deep-Sea Mining Experiment Carved Up The Seabed. 44 Years On, We're Finding Out Its Impacts

IFL Science 28 Mar 2025
Now 44 years old, this patch of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) – hot ... “The Clarion-Clipperton Zone itself is about 2% of the global abyssal plain, which is over half of the planet’s solid surface.
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It’s no metaphor — undersea cables hold together our precarious modern life

The Los Angeles Times 28 Mar 2025
In the early days of the pandemic, I began pondering the idea of healing ... The break seemed like a reasonable metaphor for our fractured times ... An underwater earthquake or a landslide can snap the cable deep in the abyssal zone.
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In Twist, Colum McCann examines what connects us

New Statesman 18 Mar 2025
But we know at the outset that all will not end happily ... If Conway remains unknowable, this is another mirror, of the vast abyssal zone where humans dare to lay the fragile threads that allow us, however briefly, to feel that we are linked ... Twist.
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‘Dark oxygen’ — Scientists split over deep-sea discovery

Taipei Times 17 Mar 2025
... Smartex project on July 24, 2023, shows a glass sponge from the Euplectellidae family, photographed during a recent expedition to the northeast Pacific abyss and found in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.
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Chinese scientists map out deepest marine ecosystem, reveal life mysteries

Beijing News 09 Mar 2025
The Mariana Trench, at almost 11,000 metres deep, is a perpetually dark and frigid abyss with a pressure of 1,100 atmospheres, once deemed a "no-life zone." On 10th November 2020, Fendouzhe reached the trench and uncovered its rich ecosystem ... .
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World’s deepest ocean trench yields 7,000 never-seen-before species

Interesting Engineering 07 Mar 2025
Three new papers published in Cell reveal details of this unexplored realm, providing fresh insight into the genetics and survival strategies of species adapted to the extreme dark, cold, and crushing pressure of the hadal zone.
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