"Discovery of Thousands of Unknown Sea Creatures Raises Concerns"

A new analysis estimates that there are around 5,000 sea animals completely new to science in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a vast mineral-rich area in the Pacific Ocean, highlighting how little we know about Earth’s oceans and how great the cost of renewable energy may be to life below the waves. The discovery of so much sea life reveals the potential environmental and human costs of underwater extraction, which is increasingly being used to mine copper, cobalt, and other critical minerals from the seafloor.