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Concerns, Impatience Over Mining World’s Seabeds

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UNITED NATIONS — The prospect of large-scale mining to extract valuable minerals from the depths of the Pacific Ocean, once a distant vision, has grown more real, raising alarms among the oceans' most fervent defenders."I think this is a real and immin... Read More

UN Ocean Treaty Talks Resume With Goal to Save Biodiversity

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United Nations members gather Monday in New York to resume efforts to forge a long-awaited and elusive treaty to safeguard the world's marine biodiversity.Nearly two-thirds of the ocean lies outside national boundaries on the high seas where fragmented... Read More