Deep below the ocean's surface, in a dimly lit region known as the twilight zone, millions of fish are being caught every year. Scientists say the consequences are largely unknown.

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BMW launched a pan-European partnership with SK tes, a company that can mine valuable minerals such as cobalt, nickel and lithium from used batteries before returning them to the value chain to make new batteries.

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Want to work for an oil company or a shipping company? Try a career in maritime law.

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Something dark and metallic-like is pumping out large amounts of oxygen from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, at depths where a lack of sunlight makes photosynthesis impossible, scientists have noticed. 

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Norway decides to start offering deep sea mining licenses for the for the "green transition"

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Norway is getting sued by a Swiss based group for deep sea mining.

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Deep sea miners want to explore faster than science can show how devastating mining for minerals on our last frontier can be.  So science is working to pick up the pace so deep sea mining will not happen without a major shift in policy and research. The latest research to come out is that deep sea mining can harm jellyfish. 

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Sand is the most important building resource and it is being mined illegally at sea.

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Strange creatures live in the deep seas. Mining will destroy ecosystems.

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The dangers of deep-sea mining and why it is important for a moratorium.

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Greenpeace is calling leaked undercover footage of wastewater pouring into the Pacific ocean during deep sea mining tests “damning”. The undercover footage shown above of the latest deep sea mining tests in the Pacific Ocean shows wastewater being dumped by Canadian miner The Metals Company at the ocean surface, with unknown toxicity and ecological impacts.

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Peak sand and an end to construction as we know it

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Deep sea mining for minerals is the next frontier for the extractive industry, and the Red Sea risks becoming a victim Sudan and Saudi Arabia are targeting to start deep-water mining of a Red Sea basin, rich in zinc, copper, silver and gold, by 2014. This decision revives from a mutual agreement signed in 1974 […]

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Recycling glass is good for the sea and the eye. Avoid the evil eye too when you buy recycled glass.

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