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Iceland’s “Green Economy”
The largest pillar of Iceland's economy is fishery. The country can therefore be considered a leading example of how to implement sustainable fishery. The…
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The Red Knot and Long-Distance Migration
The red knot is a migratory shorebird that travels up to 20,000 km twice a year from its breeding grounds on the high Arctic…
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Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES)
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are of increasing political interest as this approach helps preserve ecosystems and the goods and services they provide. Despite…
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Examples of exploration tools
Exploration for ferromanganese crusts involves the identification, delineation and evaluation of deep sea mineral resources and generally requires sophisticated, multipurpose research vessels using advanced…
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Participating Pacific Island States
The Pacific ACP States (i.e., Africa-Caribbean-Pacific Group of States) participating in the European-Union-funded SPC Deep Sea Minerals Project.
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Concentration of iron and manganese in deep sea crusts
Concentration of iron and manganese in ferromanganese crusts.
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Key element of marine reserve design
The hey design elements of marine reserves listed by the partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO 2007) provide a useful starting point…
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Concentration of cobalt, nickel, and other metals of potential economic importance in ferromanganese crusts
Cobalt, the trace metal of greatest economic interest, can be up to 2 per cent, but usually averages 0.5 to 0.8 per cent by…
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Sea-floor ferromanganese crust mining system and related sources of potential environmental impact
The operation of sea-floor production tools will increase levels of introduced noise, vibration, and light. There can be direct damage to other animals, sessile…
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Formation of Fe-Mn crusts
A wide array of metals and elements dissolved in ocean water are adsorbed (meaning to adhere to a surface) in large quantities onto the…
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Gifford Guyot, Tasman Sea, southwest Pacific Ocean
This multibeam sonar image was collected in 2007 aboard the RV Tangaroa during a Geoscience Australia marine survey. The flat top of the guyot…
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Location of Seamounts
In the Pacific Ocean there are more than 11,000 seamounts (57% of the global total) and 41 000 knolls, and many more might exist…