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Deep-sea Mining: What went down in 2024?

Posted on January 13, 2025January 16, 2025 By Andrew Thaler
Deep-sea Mining: What went down in 2024?
Featured, Policy

The march towards deep-sea mining is a slow and stately trudge through a complex international negotiation. The real progress isn’t made in flashy headlines or overhyped announcements, but in painstaking deliberations and incremental progress in the mining code and the environmental and financial regimes. In as much as 2024 was a fairly standard year in … Read More “Deep-sea Mining: What went down in 2024?” »

What is going on at Solwara I?

Posted on September 10, 2024 By Andrew Thaler
What is going on at Solwara I?
News, Science

Over 15 years ago, I set sail from Matupi Harbor, Papua New Guinea to a spot in the middle of the Bismarck Sea between New Britain and New Ireland to study and understand the ecological diversity of a hydrothermal vent system resting beneath a submerged volcano 1600 meters beneath the sea. That hydrothermal vent system … Read More “What is going on at Solwara I?” »

“The internet may be a series of tubes, but those tubes are mostly underwater” – Weekly Salvage: September 23, 2019

Posted on September 23, 2019September 22, 2019 By Andrew Thaler
Weekly Salvage

Transcript provided below.

Are we finally going to lead with deep-sea mining? We’re going to lead with deep-sea mining. Welcome to the Weekly Salvage. 

Read More ““The internet may be a series of tubes, but those tubes are mostly underwater” – Weekly Salvage: September 23, 2019″ »

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