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Mining in the deep sea for minerals is uncharted territory, but one company is well on its way to making it a reality. Now, the company is trying to convince skeptical audiences it's a good idea.
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The U.S. is challenging China's aggressive moves in the South China Seas but it lacks the ability to legally enforce them in international court as a non-party to UNCLOS.
[ More ]Deep sea mining could potentially operate with reduced social and environmental impacts compared to those associated with large surface copper mines, according to an independent Environmental and Social Benchmarking Analysis
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The author argues that the media is incorrectly characterizing routine operations as challenging China's territorial claims when they are actually being conducted to protect navigational rights under the Freedom of Navigation program.
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The Chinese military is poised to send submarines armed with nuclear missiles into the Pacific Ocean for the first time, arguing that new US weapons systems have so undermined Beijing’s existing deterrent force that it has been left with no alternative.
[ More ]The author argues that if the U.S. wants to moderate Chinese adventurism in the South China Sea, it should ratify UNCLOS.
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The recent diplomatic thaw between Russia and the United States over the crisis in Ukraine has had little effect there, but it is being felt somewhere else -- in the Arctic Ocean, near the North Pole.
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The author advocates for U.S. ratification of the Law of the Sea, noting that "the agreed upon 200-mile zone deal is under great stress around the world" and would benefit from U.S. leadership.
[ More ]China has reportedly started making its nuclear missiles more powerful, in what has been interpreted as a show of force amid the ongoing dispute with the US and other nations in the South China Sea.
[ More ]Nonprofit conservation organisation the Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit against the US Government for permitting controversial large-scale deepsea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone.
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