What to think about deep-sea mining for clean-energy minerals
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What Are the Environmental Dangers?
The operation would kick up a bunch of plumes of sediment that would kind of travel through the water column. This could be a problem for animals that use light to communicate. And then there's the noise pollution. We know that sound travels really far in the deep ocean, just because the water is so dense and loud.
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