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Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed
“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...
Deep sea mining impacts still felt forty years on, study shows
A strip of the Pacific Ocean seabed that was mined for metals more than 40 years ago has still not recovered, scientists said ...
Deep sea mining impacts visible for 'many decades'
Scientists said they have seen the first signs of life returning to deep sea mining tracks carved into the abyssal seabed ...
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New Swell Shark from the Philippines (IMAGE)
These swell sharks, which likely represent a new species, were collected during the deep sea portion of the California Academy of Sciences' 2011 Philippine Biodiversity Expedition from a depth of ...
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about: By dumping debris into the thriving midwater zone
Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.