"lecho marino" in English

It is releasing methane from the tundra, and could also release it from the seabed.

Countries are quarrelling and negotiating about how the seabed might be divided up.

There is a great danger that weapons lying on the seabed will be raised.

There is a probability that Malta has fossil-fuel reserves beneath its seabed.

The EU will certainly not be planting its flag on the seabed, as the Russians have done.

Gas pipelines are cheaper to lay on land than on the seabed.

Scientists are predicting that valuable raw materials can be found on the sea bed and in the sea itself.

The world's largest area of seabed devoid of oxygen - in other words, dead - is in the Baltic Sea.

Along with various Members of this House, I have campaigned for it to be reinstated and adopted in plenary.

Now, this is happening on the sea bed.

As a result of the analysis, the pipeline will be laid in the seabed with a covering of half a metre for about 20 km.

The Barents Sea, on the other hand, is threatened by nuclear waste and the exploitation of natural resources on the seabed.

The risk of duplication remains: once again, priority areas are designated, and even the sea bed has been drawn back into the debate.

We should also look at industrial fishing - and I know there are mixed views about this - in which sand eels are extracted from the sea bed.

the sea bed

The law defines the extent and limit of its territorial waters, its exclusive economic zone, and the rights of Portugal to the adjacent seabed.

Now when Russia and Germany nevertheless construct a gas pipeline on the seabed directly between their two countries, they do this to isolate themselves.

Russian experts have already established that there is a lot of weaponry [dumped on the seabed], and now they are thinking about changing the route of the gas pipeline.

Now Russia, implementing the project, is carrying out its own environmental impact assessment, saying that the weapons on the seabed are not dangerous.

I also wish to speak up for AmendmentNo7, which picks up on the important aspect of there being equipment other than trawl nets that can damage the sea bed.