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Digging for minerals in the Pacific’s graveyard: The $20 trillion fight over who controls the seabed
“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...
B.C. energy minister says treaty not a ‘bargaining chip’ in U.S. trade dispute
Dix says there has been speculation about how the treaty could potentially be used as a “bargaining chip” in the trade war ...
Opinion
Maritime truce would end a sorry war on the waves for Russia that set back its naval power ambitions
(THE CONVERSATION) Away from the grueling land battles and devastating airstrikes, the Ukraine war has from its outset had a naval element. Soon after the February 2022 invasion, Russia imposed a de ...
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Pacific studies axed in Pentagon research cuts
Steven Mana‘oakamai Johnson, a Cornell University professor who grew up on Saipan, has devoted his life to studying the ocean ...
In the Curator’s Words: At the Timken, looking at art through a modern lens
Timken Museum revisits Bierstadt’s 19th-century masterpiece “Cho-looke, the Yosemite Fall” through Monkman’s 2012 work, “The ...
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Thirk's Jasmine Harrison sails for Fiji in handmade yacht
Jasmine Harrison, a 25-year-old double world-record holder from Thirsk, North Yorkshire, is set to embark on a 6,000-mile solo sailing journey ...
US decides to limit Canadian access to border-straddling library
The historical site, where a line taped down the floor marks the border, is celebrated as a symbol of international ...
Synchronised bleaching: Ningaloo and the Great Barrier Reef are bleaching in unison for the first time
On the Great Barrier Reef, bleaching is underway in the northernmost section. This is the sixth bleaching event on the Great ...
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Trump’s Pentagon seeks spending on Pacific forces, cuts to environmental and cultural programs
President Donald Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, have promised sweeping changes to the U.S. military.
Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon
Dozens of companies and academic groups are pitching the same theory: that sinking rocks, nutrients, crop waste or seaweed in ...
Takeaways from Associated Press report on efforts to capture carbon in the ocean
A growing industry is racing to engineer a solution to global warming using the absorbent power of the oceans.