The Naked Scientist Podcast

Haedal Zone, it's very hard to get to technologically, logistically, it feels really far. But a number of studies we're learning that this remoteness is actually not protecting the Haedal Zone from us. High amounts of plastic pollution where animals are inadvertently ingesting plastic fibers. There's high levels of PCBs and anthropogenic mercury. So I think as we start to talk about deep sea conservation, we really need to bring the HaedAl Zone into that conversation.