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Sascha Pare

Silver is being buried beneath the sea, and it's all because of climate change, study finds

Lumps of silver on a wet stone floor.

Global warming is burying huge amounts of silver beneath the South China Sea — and the same could be happening across the world's oceans, scientists say.

The amount of silver trapped in marine sediments off the coast of Vietnam has increased sharply since 1850, the new study shows. This coincides with the start of the Industrial Revolution, when humans began pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere on a large scale.

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