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08/28/2018 / By Janine Acero

Proposals to mine the ocean floor could do irreversible damage to deep-sea ecosystems

A new study looks at the potential damaging impacts of current global plans to mine the ocean floor, including physical destruction of deep-sea ecosystems by mining operations. The oceans cover 71 percent of the Earth’s surface, of which 90 percent is considered deep sea. Despite this vastness, the seas and oceans are the least explored environments on […]

01/04/2017 / By David Gutierrez

Deep sea mining: discovery of 6 new species in unexplored hydro-thermal vents

(NaturalNews) Six new animal species have been identified living near hot springs nearly two miles beneath the surface of the ocean, according to a paper published by researchers from the University of Southampton and the Natural History Museum in London and Newcastle, and published in the journal Scientific Reports. Unfortunately, the poorly studied home of […]

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