The Truth about Deep Sea Mining



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Writer/Narrator: Brian McManus
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References
[1] https://www.resolve.ngo/docs/mar_technol_soc_j_45_28a.pdf
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0027-0
[3] https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/world-history-beginnings/origin-humans-early-societies/a/where-did-humans-come-from#:~:text=Between%2070%2C000%20and%20100%2C000%20years,35%2C000%20and%2065%2C000%20years%20ago.&text=Map%20of%20the%20world%20showing,throughout%20the%20Earth%20over%20time

[4] https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/48/3/293/579958/Environmental-predictors-of-deep-sea-polymetallic

[5] https://www.isa.org.jm/exploration-contracts/polymetallic-nodules
[6] https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2017/12/the-clarion-clipperton-zone

[7] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02222-1
[8] https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/15/2525/2018/
[9] https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/11/10/1132
[10] https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/349889/
[11] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenrg.2022.884571/full

[12] http://www.deepseaminingoutofourdepth.org/impacts-of-mining-deep-sea-polymetallic-nodules-in-the-pacific/

[13] https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00213-8
[14] https://www.discol.de/home
[15] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-44492-w
[16] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8192577/

[17] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652620338671?via%3Dihub

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