As fishing and the harvesting of metals, gas and oil have expanded deeper and deeper into the ocean, scientists are drawing attention to the services provided by the deep sea, the world's largest environment. "This is the time to discuss deep-sea stewardship before exploitation is too much farther underway," Andrew Thurber, a researcher at the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University in the USA, told IOS. In a review published in Biogeosciences, a journal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), lead-author Thurber and colleagues summarise what this habitat provides to humans, and emphasise the need to protect it.
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