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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The vast Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the north Pacific ... The Cook Islands’ move angered its Western partners, particularly New Zealand, with which it has constitutional ties.

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 ...