The changes include moving the development further out to sea and making it smaller in scale.

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In a sense, but only if we cling to a linear scale of intelligence that places sea sponges at the bottom and humans at the top.

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De Beers is active in every category of industrial diamond mining: open-pit, underground, large-scale alluvial, coastal and deep sea.

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For example, the sea services will largely cease operating in South America and scale back operations in the Middle East and Western Pacific.

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The report calls on a specific budgetary allocation for the Black Sea strategy, with a priority on funding small-scale development projects and cross-border co-operation.

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In the first the marine ecologists re-examined 32 small-scale experiments in which researchers had altered the variety of sea life and recorded what happened.

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More importantly, the subsea smart grid set the stage for large-scale subsea processing, which would reduce the costs of developing deep-sea fields dramatically.

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Founded in 1955, Sea-Gull has also looked to go up the value chain despite its large-scale production volume.

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However, the challenge posed by the North Sea structures - because of their heavier weight and the local climate - represents a major challenge on a totally different scale.

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