{"id":226631,"date":"2025-12-06T20:08:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-deep-sea-species-discovered-during-mining-test"},"modified":"2025-12-06T20:08:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T02:08:47","slug":"new-deep-sea-species-discovered-during-mining-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-deep-sea-species-discovered-during-mining-test","title":{"rendered":"New deep-sea species discovered during mining test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-deep-sea-species-discovered-during-mining-test2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the seabed. An international study, which has discovered large numbers of new species at a depth of 4,000 meters, shows that such mining has less of a negative impact than expected. However, species diversity declined by a third in the tracks of the mining machine.<\/p>\n<p>In a major research project, marine biologists from several countries have attempted to map life in one of the least explored places on Earth: the deep-sea floor of the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41559-025-02911-4\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Ecology and Evolution<\/i>, would not have been possible without significant commercial and geopolitical interest in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is high global demand for critical metals, and many countries want to try extracting these sought-after metals from the seabed. An international study, which has discovered large numbers of new species at a depth of 4,000 meters, shows that such mining has less of a negative impact than expected. However, species diversity declined by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}