An international team of researchers has published a study showing that the destruction of key hydrothermal vents by deep-sea mining could have knock-on impacts on vent fields hundreds of kilometers away. mining.com Submitted by GeoGeoGeoGeo t3_117vxc6 on February 21, 2023 at 5:52 AM in science 9 comments 431
zeldestein t1_j9j0xaj wrote on February 22, 2023 at 9:01 AM In other words, we have no idea how much of an impact this will have in upper layers. The fact that the mining industry is even contemplating this without a lot of interference is a form of madness. Permalink 1
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