by Anita Hofschneider | Jul 21, 2026 | deep sea mining, Environment, Mining, News, Polynesia
The government of French Polynesia plans to challenge an American startup’s proposal to explore the waters just beyond its maritime borders for seabed mining. “We were approached, but we were not consulted,” Moetai Brotherson, the territory’s president, told Grist. “We are not remaining passive while industrial activities are proposed immediately next to ecosystems that French Polynesia has…
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by Amy Goodman | Jun 10, 2026 | Climate Crisis, deep sea mining, ecosystem, El Niño, Fishing, Fossil Fuels, Interview, NOAA, ocean, oceanic warming, offshore drilling, Project 2025, Trump Administration
We’re joined by ocean policy expert David Helvarg to discuss the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, the “cutting-edge eyes [and] ears” of the ocean. The program’s closure, proposed in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 playbook for Trump’s second administration, involves the decommissioning of a vast network of ocean floor sensors that collect data on…
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