SEABED AGAIN

BY KEITH NUTHALLUNDETERRED by the scientific world's comprehensive ignorance of the deep-sea environment, the United Nations' International Seabed Authority is pressing ahead with research projects that will help it estimate the effect of submarine mining on species that have yet to be discovered.Continuing to meet at its Kingston, Jamaica, HQ, the UN agency has developed details of studies that will help scientists decide whether scooping manganese nodules from the seabed will kill off life in the bowels of the earth.Cheerfully, an authority statement has said: ...


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