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Deep seabed mining interests like DeepGreen have often argued for the environmental and social benefits of mining maganese nodules over land-based methods, especially for the valuable cobalt minerals that will be necessary for any push to build more electric vehicles. To help assess and mitigate the environmental impact of any potential deep seabed mining, two expeditions will be traversing the CCZ to test undersea mining technologies and how much damage they cause to the deep seabed.
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"Cut Undersea Cable Plunges Yemen Into Days-Long Internet Outage" — Lily Hay Newman — Wired — January 13, 2020
An underseas cable accident plunged the country of Yemen into a days-long internet outage, underscoring the fragility of the current internet infrastructure.
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