Researchers from the University of Exeter and Bangor University, working as part of the Convex Seascape Survey, have produced the first long-term estimates of how port dredging and marine aggregate extraction have disturbed organic carbon stored in seabed sediments across the Northwest European shelf, revealing a 30-fold increase in carbon disturbance from UK port dredging between the end of the 19th century and the start of the 21st.

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