That's what we have here in the CCZ: the most desert-like place on the planet.

这就是我们在东太平洋的克拉里昂﹣克利珀顿区的情况：地球上最像沙漠的地方。

Although the CCZ is deep, dark and cold, it is not lifeless.

CCZ虽然深邃、黑暗、寒冷，但并非死气沉沉。

Around 13 kilograms of biomass would be lost for every tonne of CCZ nickel mined.

每开采一吨 CCZ 镍就会损失约 13 公斤生物质。

First discovered in the Arctic Ocean in 1868, polymetallic nodules can be found in almost all oceans, but are concentrated in the CCZ.

1868年首次在北冰洋发现的多金属结核，几乎在所有的海洋中都可以找到，但它们集中在东太平洋的克拉里昂﹣克利珀顿区。

Its first target is a patch of the CCZ called NORI-D, which covers about 2.5m hectares of ocean floor (an area about 20% bigger than Wales).

它的第一个目标是 CCZ 中一块名为 NORI-D 的区域，该区域覆盖约 250 万公顷的海底（面积比威尔士大约 20%）。

" A lot of the life in the CCZ is very small, but that doesn't mean it's unimportant, " says Amon. " Think about our world without insects. It would collapse."

“CCZ中的许多生命都非常渺小，但这并不意味着他们不重要。想想我们的世界没有了昆虫。它会崩溃的。”

A paper published in Nature in 2016 found that a given square metre of CCZ supports between one and two living organisms, weighing a couple of grams at most.

2016年发表在《自然》杂志上的一篇论文发现， 一平方米的CCZ支撑着一到两个生物体，最多重几克。

A patch of Pacific Ocean seabed called the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) is dotted with trillions of potato-sized lumps of nickel, cobalt, manganese and copper, all of which are of interest to battery-makers (see map).

太平洋海底的克拉里昂-克利珀顿区 (CCZ) 散布着数万亿个土豆大小的镍、钴、锰和铜块，所有这些都引起了电池制造商的兴趣（见地图）。