Study weighs deep-sea mining's impact on microbes

(Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences) The essential roles that microbes play in deep-sea ecosystems are at risk from the potential environmental impacts of mining, a new paper in Limnology and Oceanography reports. The study reviews what is known about microbes in these environments and assesses how mining could impact their important environmental roles.
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