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Alexus Cazares-Nuesser

Alexus Cazares-Nuesser is a Ph.D. candidate in biological oceanography at the University of Hawaii Manoa who studies zooplankton ecology in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a region of the Pacific considered for deep-sea mining for polymetallic nodules.

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Deep-Sea Mining Threatens Sea Life In A Way No One Is Thinking About Courtesy: NOAA

Deep-Sea Mining Threatens Sea Life In A Way No One Is Thinking About

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The extraction process involves dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone.