Olivia Rosane is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Norway 's plans to move forward with deep-sea mining could do irreparable damage to unique Arctic ecosystems and even drive unobserved species to extinction.That's the warning issued Friday in a Greenpeace report titled Deep Sea Mining in the Arctic : Living Treasures at Risk. The environmental group argues that Norway 's mining plans contradict its previous ecological commitments, such as its 2020 pledge to manage 100% of its ocean area sustainably by 2025.
The habitats they form are therefore classified as Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems. Mining would disturb these ecosystems directly as 'underwater robots' would both damage and remove them in the hunt for metals. However, the impacts of deep-sea mining extend beyond the seabed and included sediment plumes, the release of toxins, the alternation of the substrate and its geochemistry, noise and light pollution, and moving some organisms from one part of the sea to another.
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