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Written by: Jeroen Ingels, Plymouth Marine Laboratory and Andrew Thurber, Oregon State University

The deep sea is the largest habitat on earth and incredibly important to humans, but it faces many threats – from increased human exploitation to the effects of climate change. As this exploitation expands we need to decide to what extent we will try to conserve the oceans, and this is a decision that must be informed by what the oceans provide.

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