Deep-sea operations proposed by a Vancouver-based mining company could cause harm to a wide variety of species in the Pacific Ocean, including whales, dolphins and sound-producing fish, two new studies have found.
Earlier this year, The Metals Company Inc. (Nasdaq:TMC) announced it was circumventing the U.N.’s International Seabed Authority and would seek approvals to mine a large swath of the Pacific Ocean through a recently passed executive order from U.S. President Donald Trump.
The company is targeting the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a six-million-square-kilometre area of seafloor several kilometres under the ocean, where polymetallic nodules the size of a potato have formed over the course of millions of years — often around a
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