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michael (proseandpassion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jan-2024 00:31:28 JST michael

25-JAN-2024
Unexpected #biodiversity on the ocean floor
"We should be extremely careful with potential future deep-sea mining, as these unique species carry high #extinction risk."
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1032426
#science #DeepSeaMining #ecology #MarineBiology
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1. Unexpected biodiversity on the ocean floor
  
  Hydrothermal vents and manganese nodule fields in the deep oceans contain more biodiversity than expected. That is shown by the thesis that NIOZ-marine biologist Coral Diaz-Recio Lorenzo will defend at Utrecht University on January 26th. “This research – again – shows that we should be extremely careful before allowing commercial deep-sea mining for minerals that are found in these habitats”, marine ecologist Sabine Gollner of NIOZ says.

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