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New study reveals long-term impacts of deep-sea mining and first signs of biological recovery

A brand-new study led by the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has revealed the long-term impacts and the first signs of biological recovery in seabed mining tracks, 44 years after deep-sea trials in the Pacific Ocean. The findings, published in the scientific journal Nature, provide critical evidence to the global deep-sea mining debate.

Scientists visited a previously mined site in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) Image credit: National Oceanography Centre and Trustees of the Natural History Museum, with acknowledgement to the NERC SMARTEX project

New study reveals long-term impacts of deep-sea mining and first signs of biological recovery | National Oceanography Centre

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