Over a third of animals lost in test deep sea mining

Georgina RannardClimate and science correspondent

Natural History Museum/ University of Gothenburg A creature called a brittlestar. It has a grey, star-shaped body with orange segments in the middle, and five long legs with nodules like a centipede Natural History Museum/ University of Gothenburg

A brittlestar found on the seafloor of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

Machines mining minerals in the deep ocean have been found to cause significant…

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