{"id":760485,"date":"2023-07-14T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=760485"},"modified":"2023-07-14T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:00:01","slug":"ocean-animals-vacate-areas-both-around-and-outside-deep-sea-mining-operations-finds-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=760485","title":{"rendered":"Ocean animals vacate areas both around and outside deep-sea mining operations, finds study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, Japan performed the first successful test extracting cobalt crusts from the top of deep-sea mountains to mine cobalt\u2014a mineral used in electric vehicle batteries. Not only do directly mined areas become less habitable for ocean animals, but mining also creates a plume of sediment that can spread through the surrounding water. An investigation on the environmental impact of this first test, published July 14 in the journal Current Biology, reports a decrease in ocean animals both in and around the mining zone.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-07-ocean-animals-vacate-areas-deep-sea.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ocean animals vacate areas both around and outside deep-sea mining operations, finds study<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, Japan performed the first successful test extracting cobalt crusts from the top of deep-sea mountains to mine cobalt\u2014a mineral used in electric vehicle batteries. Not only do directly&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}