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sea floor in the Clarion Clipperton Zone

Deep-sea mining could wreck the last unexplored ecosystem on Earth

31 January 2019

As mining firms begin tests to pick up metal ores from the Pacific seabed, we need rules to protect this unusual ecosystem, says Olive Heffernan

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