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Deep sea mining puts $560 billion in land extraction at risk — report

Mining 14 Nov 2024
... warned that over 40% of coral species face extinction as a result of human activities, including fishing activity, especially bottom trawling, deep sea mining, as well as drilling for oil and gas.
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44% of warm-water coral species facing extinction, conservationists warn

AOL 13 Nov 2024
... the world and do not depend on sunlight, are ongoing, with threats including fishing activity, especially bottom trawling, deep sea mining, drilling for oil and gas, or laying of deep-sea cables.
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WWII sailor from Allentown landed troops on Pacific islands

The Morning Call 08 Nov 2024
At war’s end, he volunteered for the hazardous job of sweeping harbors for mines and got a medal for it ... Later, he and others on LST-553 swept pressure mines that U.S ... “The mines were on the sea bottom ... We never set off any mine.
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NZ trawler's 'shameful' 37kg coral catch suspends fishing in area until 2026

NewstalkZB 31 Oct 2024
Deepwater corals grow slowly, and disturbances from bottom trawling can cause irreversible damage.  ... Karli Thomas is an advocate for the Deep-Sea Conservation Coalition which is focused on protecting oceans from bottom trawling and mining.
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‘Larger-than-life’ D-Day veteran George Chandler dies aged 99

AOL 28 Oct 2024
“We watched all the planes going over and the sea was covered from horizon to horizon with ships of all shapes and sizes.” ... “I look back and I think about the 19 good shipmates of mine who now lie at the bottom of the Adriatic sea.
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WWII submarine discovered 81 years after vanishing on a secret mission

Popular Science 18 Oct 2024
According to researchers, the British vessel resides 830-feet-down at the bottom of the Icarian Sea, near the Greek island of Donoussa—and the wreckage indicates an underwater mine is to blame.
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‘They’re scamming us’: Customer demands answers after ordering Wendy’s SpongeBob meal for $14

The Daily Dot 11 Oct 2024
Mine was insanely watery. All they did was take a vanilla frosty and stick some pineapple goo at the bottom.”. The Pineapple Under the Sea frosty is, indeed, a vanilla frosty with pineapple and mango-flavored puree, according to the Wendy’s website.
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NATO to get mine-hunting underwater robot drones to solidify sea defense

Interesting Engineering 28 Aug 2024
It allows operators to remotely neutralize a sea mine while keeping humans out of the minefield ... The company states that K-ster can neutralize all kinds of mines deployed in the water- ranging from sea bottom, floating, to the new-age smart mines.
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Deep-sea mining

Dawn 09 Aug 2024
MINING in the deep sea has turned into a hot topic in the discourse on controlling planet-warming gases in the atmosphere ... Meanwhile, some countries, appear to be preparing for deep-sea mining in their jurisdictions.
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Russian ships are being taken out by mines covertly laid by Ukrainian sea drones: report

Business Insider 24 Jun 2024
Brig Gen Ivan Lukashevych, of Ukraine's SBU security service, described to the Journal the development of a specialized Sea Baby drone capable of laying Western-supplied bottom mines — small, 400-pound mines that sit under the sea bed.
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‘Dust clouds’ from deep-sea mining threatening marine ecosystems: Study

Interesting Engineering 16 May 2024
Deep-sea mining has led to the forming of “dust clouds” at the bottom of the ocean, severely impacting the clarity of the ocean and deep-sea life ... clouds’ emitted by deep-sea mining activities.
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Monitoring strategies of suspended matter after natural and deep-sea mining disturbances

Phys Dot Org 15 May 2024
"Dust clouds" at the bottom of the deep sea, that will be created by deep-sea mining activities, descend at a short distance for the most part ... mining valuable metals from the bottom of the deep sea.
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Final dust settles slowly in the deep sea

Science Daily 15 May 2024
'Dust clouds' at the bottom of the deep sea, that will be created by deep-sea mining activities, descend at a short distance for the biggest part. Yet, a small portion of the stirred-up bottom material remains visible in the water at long distances ... .
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Are EVs Truly the Greenest Form of Transportation?

Dissident Voice 09 Apr 2024
Sediments from mining are typically dumped back into the sea “which can harm filter-feeding species like corals and sponges.” The bottom of deep oceans are devoid of light and sound and typically do not have disturbances that stir up sediment.
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Can we protect and profit from the oceans?

Vox 18 Mar 2024
Though they sound like a kind of Yellowstone in the sea, they can perhaps be better thought of as “protected in name only,” as Vox’s Benji Jones put it last year, because commercial fishing, oil drilling, and mining will still happen in these areas.

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