The vote has opened an area of the Norwegian Sea nearly as big as Italy to deep-sea mining exploration - an activity that scientists fear might destroy marine life.
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00:00 On Tuesday, foreign activists and the Norwegian environmental movement gathered outside the
00:05 parliament, where a vote took place on seabed mining.
00:10 The government is proposing to open up an area in the Arctic almost the size of Italy
00:14 to this type of extraction.
00:18 Norway has become the first country in the world to move forward with the controversial
00:22 practice of commercial scale deep sea mining.
00:25 The bill, passed on Tuesday, will accelerate the hunt for precious metals, which are in
00:30 high demand for green technologies.
00:32 Go away!
00:33 (whooshing)