Pacific Islands Split On Deep-Sea Mining As First License Application Nears
December 6th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on Nauru’s deep-sea mining project which targets vast seabed mineral reserves: More than 4 kilometers beneath the surface of the north Pacific Ocean lies what the tiny island of Nauru sees as a vast treasure chest — a seabed studded with minerals that could pioneer an economic transformation for remote […]
Read more »The Pacific Power Game
March 18th, 2024
Courtesy of The Wire China, a look at how – with a new multi-billion dollar aid package agreed – the U.S. is trying to keep up with China in a strategically important region: The small island countries that dot the vast Pacific Ocean are sparsely populated and hard to pinpoint on a map. Yet in […]
Read more »The Country With Nothing Left to Lose: Nauru’s Bet on Deep Sea Mining
February 13th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on how – in its quest for cash – the tiny island nation of Nauru has tried it all. Its latest scheme may be its riskiest bet yet: If an apocalypse struck Earth, Sam Bankman-Fried—the billionaire tech entrepreneur behind the United States’ most explosive cryptocurrency scandal—wasn’t ready to die. […]
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