Nestled between Hawaii and the western coast of Mexico lies the Pacific Ocean’s Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a 4.5 million-kilometer-square area of abyssal plain bordered by the Clarion and ...

An executive order will unleash a global oceanbed mining boom ...

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. © Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa ...

However, life has slowly begun to recover. The Clarion-Clipperton zone is very important for extracting metals for batteries such as nickel and cobalt. In order to achieve the ecological ...

As demand for these technologies increases, mining companies are targeting this remote area, known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, as well as a few other zones with similar nodules around the world.

The Clarion-Clipperton Zone is already under environmental scrutiny due to plans for deep-sea mining, as companies race to extract nickel, cobalt, and other metals critical for batteries and green ...

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa ...

Scattered across an abyssal plain known as the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) are polymetallic nodules that are a potato-sized prize for mining companies in search of materials needed for humanity ...

A cnidarian is attached to a dead sponge stalk on a manganese nodule in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone. Diva Amon and Craig Smith, University of Hawaii at Mānoa ...