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Deep-Sea Mining Requires Transparent Environmental Management
For three years researchers from eleven countries have been working intensively on these questions on the consequences on deepsea mining on ecosystems and environmental aspects in the project “MiningImpact” coordinated by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel…
This week, they discuss their findings at the project`s final meeting at the Natural History Museum London, UK.
They also presented recommendations for the protection of the marine environment.
In the 19th century, some researchers believed that below water depths of 1,000…