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Seabed Mining Project Sparks Alarm over Impact on South Taranaki Fisheries

KINGSTON, JAMAICA, JUL 7 – The International Seabed Authority's negotiations face division as 37 countries back a moratorium while mining interests push for rules enabling exploitation of critical minerals.

  • Greenpeace activists demanded a halt to deep-sea mining outside Germany's parliament, coinciding with the start of the International Seabed Authority's assembly in Jamaica, where 170 nations will negotiate mining regulations.
  • Research from Australia's CSIRO indicates that deep-sea mining significantly affects the seabed and endangers marine life, urging for effective monitoring if mining proceeds.
  • Experts argue against deep-sea mining, asserting that the economic benefits are overstated and that the minerals required for the energy transition are abundant on land.
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With a research vessel Japan wants to win rare earths in the deep sea for the first time from January. The ship "Chikyu" will complete a test expedition to catch sediments of the seabed containing such metals, said the director of a state innovation program, Shoichi Ishii. It is the first test worldwide, "in which the sediments are recovered from a water depth of 5500 meters". The expedition leads the "Chikyu" in waters of the Japanese economic …

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