The deep sea begins roughly 200 meters below the surface, at the depth where sunlight disappears. It makes up more than 90% of the ocean\u2019s volume, yet most of what lies beneath remains a mystery. The study also found that more than 65% of visual observations of the sea<\/a> have come from waters near the U.S., Japan, and New Zealand, leaving huge swaths of the global ocean completely unstudied.<\/p>\n This matters because the deep sea plays a crucial role in stabilizing Earth\u2019s climate. It absorbs about 90% of the excess heat and roughly 30% of the carbon dioxide produced by human activity. Without this buffer, global temperatures would be far more extreme. Yet despite its importance, our knowledge of the deep sea is too limited to fully understand how it\u2019s changing\u2014or how human actions might harm it.<\/p>\n \tTech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox.\t<\/p>\n Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there.<\/p>\n By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use<\/a> and have reviewed the Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/p>\n That concern is growing as governments consider opening the deep sea to mining. An executive order signed by the Trump administration aims to fast-track approval for seabed mining operations<\/a> to extract critical minerals. But with so little baseline data available, scientists warn we may cause irreversible damage to ocean ecosystems<\/a> we haven\u2019t even discovered yet.<\/p>\n Already, 32 countries have called for a moratorium on deep-sea mining until further research can be done. Experts argue that until we expand our knowledge of the deep sea, we risk blindly damaging one of the planet\u2019s most important and least understood ecosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new study claims that we know more about the surface of Mars than we do about our…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,16007,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-91371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-ocean","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114486360828941618","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Solumbellula](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/distant-view-of-sea-pen-in-pacific-ocean.jpg\")
We continue to discover new species hiding under the ocean. Image source: EVNautilus \/ YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n