Alexus Cazares-Nuesser
@alexuscazares.bsky.social
🌊 Biological oceanographer | PhD candidate @UHManoa | Studying zooplankton in the deep sea 🦐
Reposted by Alexus Cazares-Nuesser
Deep-sea mining for rare minerals to go into electric car batteries and smartphones could threaten the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that sustains life across our planet. An oceanographer explains how sediment plumes from mining may disrupt this delicate environment: buff.ly/TbOJpdu
March 29, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Deep-sea mining for rare minerals to go into electric car batteries and smartphones could threaten the midwater zone, a hidden ecosystem that sustains life across our planet. An oceanographer explains how sediment plumes from mining may disrupt this delicate environment: buff.ly/TbOJpdu
First post here! 👋 Excited to share my article on deep-sea mining, just published in The Conversation! 🌊🐙 I explore the midwater impacts of mining, a major threat to deep-sea ecosystems. It’s what motivated my PhD research, and I hope it helps raise awareness! 🦑🔬 Check it out! ⬇️
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about − by dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
A planned mining method to gather critical minerals from the seafloor would create sediment plumes higher up in the water column where many creatures live.
theconversation.com
March 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
First post here! 👋 Excited to share my article on deep-sea mining, just published in The Conversation! 🌊🐙 I explore the midwater impacts of mining, a major threat to deep-sea ecosystems. It’s what motivated my PhD research, and I hope it helps raise awareness! 🦑🔬 Check it out! ⬇️