New Ocean Gold Rush Could Hurt Marine Life Before Impacts Are Known
Loggerhead sea turtle photo courtesy Wikimedia Commons/Damien DuToit.
SAN FRANCISCO—(ENEWSPF)–May 14, 2015. The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. government today over its first-ever approval for large-scale deep-sea mining, a destructive project between Hawaii and Mexico that would damage important habitat for whales, sharks and sea turtles and wipe out seafloor ecosystems.
The lawsuit targets the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for…
