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Save Seamounts from Underwater Mountain Top Mining

George W. Bush forever protected Pacific Ocean seamounts by proclamation creating the Northern Hawaii Island National Marine Monument. Now the rare earth elements and high-tech metal mining-eye of Mordor is turning to seamounts in the Atlantic Ocean off of Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket.   The four pristine seamounts are named Bear, Physalia, Mytilus, and…

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Saving the Black-eyed King Scallops of Wester Ross, a Dredger Ban for Scotland’s Marine Protected Areas

The newspaper was handed to me over a plate of fish and chips with loose peas at the Coffee Pot in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis.  “Dredging row turns bitter as ban ‘broken’” was the headline of The Press and Journal.[1] The “bitter row” had broken out about a week earlier and turned more bitter…

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