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Lockheed Martin sells deep-sea mining firm to Norway's Loke

Mining Weekly 17 Mar 2023
Norway's Loke Marine Minerals has acquired deep-sea mining firm UK Seabed Resources (UKSR) ...
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Norway's Loke buys UK deep-sea mining firm from Lockheed

Canada Dot Com 16 Mar 2023
OSLONorway’s Loke Marine Minerals has acquired deep-sea mining firm UK ...
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The Ghost of Hugo Grotius: The UN High Seas Treaty

GlobalResearch 12 Mar 2023
marine genetic resources and deep-sea mining ... Given the treaty’s link to other instruments, such as the , which defines fish as “all species of living marine resources, whether processed or not”, the risk of excluding living marine resources from the regulatory mechanism is genuine enough.
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The high seas are supposed to belong to everyone: New UN treaty aims to make ...

Phys Dot Org 08 Mar 2023
These life forms carry potentially valuable information in their genes, known as marine genetic resources. This new agreement provides developing states, whether coastal or landlocked, with rights to the benefits of marine genetic resources ... The best hope for robust marine ...
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The Irish Times view on the new agreement to protect the oceans

The Irish Times 08 Mar 2023
This is to protect against the loss of wildlife, put more money into marine conservation, and regulate access to and use of marine genetic resources. The treaty also aims to protect against potential impacts like deep sea mining.
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The high seas are supposed to belong to everyone – a new UN treaty aims ...

The Conversation 07 Mar 2023
These life forms carry potentially valuable information in their genes, known as marine genetic resources ... This new agreement provides developing states, whether coastal or landlocked, with rights to the benefits of marine genetic resources ... The best hope for robust marine ...
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Nearly 200 countries agree to legally-binding historic oceans treaty to protect the high seas

ABC7 06 Mar 2023
Human activity on the ocean is adding pressure, including industrial fishing, shipping, the nascent deep sea mining industry and the race to harness the ocean's "genetic resources" -- material from marine plants and animals for use in industries such as pharmaceuticals.
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Ocean treaty: Historic agreement reached after decade of talks

RNZ 05 Mar 2023
Minna Epps, director of the IUCN Ocean team, said the main issue was over the sharing of marine genetic resources. Marine genetic resources are biological material from plants and animals in the ocean that can have benefits for society, such as pharmaceuticals, industrial processes and food.
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What is the UN High Seas Treaty and why is it needed?

Yahoo Daily News 05 Mar 2023
... into marine conservation and means new rules for mining at sea ... If we have marine protected sanctuaries most of the marine resources will have the time to recover." ... Arrangements for sharing marine genetic resources, such as biological material from plants and animals in the ocean.
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Countries agree historic oceans treaty to protect the high seas

CNN 05 Mar 2023
Human activity on the ocean is adding pressure, including industrial fishing, shipping, the nascent deep sea mining industry and the race to harness the ocean’s “genetic resources” – material from marine plants and animals for use in industries such as pharmaceuticals.
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Journey to the twilight zone: Hear from a scientists who descended to 1,000 m

Hindustan Times 27 Jan 2023
Kumar, of Kochi’s Centre for Marine Living Resources and Ecology (CMLRE), spent 10 days aboard the research vessel Odyssey, and dove in a glass-bubble submersible to spend a few hours at 1,000 metres, in the twilight zone ... For our requirement, which is to explore living marine resources, we are focusing on bilateral missions and joint exercises.
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Maritime security as an enabler of blue economy

The News International 16 Jan 2023
New technologies are advancing the frontiers of marine resource development, including bio-prospecting and the mining of seabed mineral resources ... The marine and coastal environments also constitute key resources for the important global tourism industry, supporting all aspects of ...
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Pakistan maritime expo and conference on February 10

The News International 10 Jan 2023
... tourism, maritime transport, oil and gas, salt manufacturing, chemical, electric power, shipbuilding, marine engineering, aquaculture, marine biotechnology/biomedicine, scientific research, deep sea-bed mining, resource extraction, oceanic renewable energy, and maritime tourism.
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The Other Endangered Frontier of Subsea Mining: Brazil's Blue Amazon

The Maritime Executive 27 Nov 2022
Brazil’s National Mining Agency (ANM) has recorded 765 active requests to mine in the country’s marine area ... Are there alternatives to mining these resources? ... Instead of depleting certain natural resources, a lower impact alternative to marine mining is regenerative ocean farming of seaweed.

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