Climate Change: Sea Mining

climate change: Opening up a new industrial frontier in the largest ecosystem on Earth and undermining an important carbon sink carries significant environmental risks, according to The Japan Times. Deep sea mining could even make climate change worse. Without proper governance of the seas, mining could remove entire habitats and species, release toxins and create pollution in areas that have been undisturbed for millennia, it said. ; Deep sea mining could cause severe and potentially irreversible environmental harm both at the mine sites and throughout broader ocean areas, Greenpeace said in a report. A growing number of countries are eyeing the ocean floor as a source of wealth, scattered with vast beds of minerals key to making modern gadgets, from smartphones to solar panels. India is investing heavily in underwater technology after winning four of 29 exploration licenses awarded by the U.N's International Seabed Authority ISA which aims to agree on rules on exploitation by 2020. But climate campaigners are worried about disrupting one of the last pristine areas of the planet and potentially putting species we barely understand at risk, as well as releasing planet-warming carbon dioxide. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.