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WELCOME TO HOWTOWN! Our small but mighty team (Joss Fong and Adam Cole) digs into the evidence behind commonly held facts and claims in the news. This month: we’re about to mine one of the most unexplored places on Earth — and it turns out, it’s not a desert. It’s an alien zoo.

Check out Johnny's episode on the fascinating fight over deep sea mining: https://youtu.be/TacQgNeoPMM

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SELECTED SOURCES

An overview of biodiversity in the CCZ

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(23)00534-1

That deep sea mining study with surprising CIA roots:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08921-3

And some interesting background: https://blogs.noc.ac.uk/jc241-smartex/prologue-smartex

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Chapters:

00:00 The sunken treasure

01:43 the abyss - a desert?

02:00 how big is the abyss

03:31 trillion $ trove

04:20 get a hang o’ these

05:30 methods

07:29 empire of poop

07:49 water column critters

08:40 seamount critters

9:13 gummy squirrels

9:30 angry prawn

10:06 walking squid

10:19 mystery holes

10:49 ping pong sponge

11:33 the unnamed

12:04 accumulation curves

13:15 we don’t know much

14:00 secret CIA project

15:21 deep sea mining

16:53 is it worth it?

18:01 johnny harris

19:00 rules for mining

21:12 sea shanty

The deep sea is Earth's final frontier — and in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, scientists are discovering thousands of strange, unnamed species living on the ocean floor everywhere time they drop down a camera. But this alien wilderness is under threat. As Johnny Harris explains in his video on deep-sea mining geopolitics, there's a global race to extract metals from this fragile ecosystem. In this episode, we dive into the cutting-edge science behind exploring the abyss — from ROVs and eDNA — and ask: what happens when industry collides with a world we barely understand?