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Deep sea mining companies exploiting ‘national security’ fears for profit, according to new Greenpeace USA report
Greenpeace International
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July 21, 2025
“Deep Deception” report refutes claims that deep sea mining is necessary to source critical minerals for U.S. national security and defense. Greenpeace USA activists unfurl a banner calling on the US government to Stop Deep Sea Mining in front of...
Four in five Tuvaluans apply to move to Australia. Frayzel is among them
WAtoday
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July 18, 2025
Minister for Pacific Island Affairs Pat Conroy said: “The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty is the first agreement of its kind anywhere in the world and the most significant Pacific policy this country has undertaken in the last 50 years.” A...
New deep-sea mining rules lack consensus despite US pressure
Punch
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July 18, 2025
After two weeks of negotiations, the International Seabed Authority is still far from finalising rules for extracting coveted metals on the high seas despite heightened pressure triggered by US efforts to fast-track the controversial practice....
Submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Australia
Human Rights Watch
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July 18, 2025
[2] Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (Addendum): Australia, (June 2021), A/HRC/47/8/Add.1, p. 3, para. 13. [5] Report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (Addendum): Australia, (June 2021),...
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What Country Has No Rivers? Here Is the Complete Global List
Tempo.co
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July 18, 2025
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Amid the alarming realities of climate change, discovering which country has no river offers a fascinating glimpse into how geography shapes a nation's environmental challenges. As we explore surprising facts about the world,...
Pacific Islands News Roundup – July 11 – July 17, 2025
Pacific Islands Report
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July 18, 2025
Editor’s Note: We are undergoing a web host migration process and may need to make necessary modifications to our format and frequency over the next several weeks. Thank you in advance for your understanding. Political Leadership and Regionalism,...
Trump’s Mineral Policy Offers Strategic Opportunity in the Pacific
The Gateway Pundit
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July 4, 2025
Credit: FOX Sunday Morning Futures screenshot A seabed mining agreement with the island nation of Nauru would reduce China’s influence while establishing America as an industry authority This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire. By...
Pacific news in brief for 17 July
RNZ
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July 17, 2025
Fiji, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Tonga, French Polynesia and American Sāmoa have also declared dengue outbreaks. Photo: SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Samoa - dengue A dengue fever outbreak in Samoa has claimed the life of a second child. The Sāmoa Observer...
The best global mobility, residence and citizenship by investment advisers
Spear's Magazine
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July 15, 2025
Citizenship by investment is an increasingly relevant consideration for HNWs. As governments seek foreign capital to boost their economies, create jobs and develop infrastructure, some offer residency or citizenship in return — an option that has...
Caught in the contest between China and the west, the Cook Islands asks where its future lies
The Guardian
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July 14, 2025
On a remote stretch of land in the Cook Islands lies a second world war airstrip. Once used as a wartime supply route by American forces, the narrow runway is in dire need of resealing to allow larger tourist jets to land. Leaders on the northern...
China’s gray-zone hybrid threats against Taiwan’s Pacific allies
Asia Times
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July 14, 2025
This article was originally published by Pacific Forum. It is republished with permission. In the Indo-Pacific’s intensifying great power competition, Taiwan’s Pacific allies – Palau, the Marshall Islands and Tuvalu—are increasingly caught in the...
Cook Islands backs bold plastic treaty push to support growing national efforts
Cook Island News
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July 14, 2025
Halatoa Fua, Secretary of the National Environment Service with NES staff at the Pacific Regional Preparatory Meeting – 25071816 The Cook Islands stands to gain significant international support to back up its growing national efforts to tackle...
Governor drums up regional support for her Guam hospital project
The Pacific Island Times
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July 13, 2025
Guam Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero with Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Governor of Guam The 27th Micronesian Islands Forum has adopted a resolution supporting the development of a regional medical complex on...
We don’t need deep-sea mining, or its environmental harms. Here’s why
The Conversation
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July 6, 2025
Deep-sea mining promises critical minerals for the energy transition without the problems of mining on land. It also promises to bring wealth to developing nations. But the evidence suggests these promises are false, and mining would harm the...
Deep-sea mining: The rush to mine the unknown
Deutsche Welle
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July 8, 2025
As official talks kick off in Jamaica on the need for rules to protect the ocean floor for generations to come, the world's first commercial deep-sea mining operation in international waters may be about to get underway. The US National Oceanic...
Pacific Tuna Fleets Pushed To Lift Ban In Waters They Barely Fished
Honolulu Civil Beat - Hawaii
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July 9, 2025
The vessels hardly spent any time right outside a marine protected area before its expansion, but fishing leaders and managers say times have changed. President Donald Trump’s order to re-open distant, protected Pacific waters to U.S. fishing...
Compulsory Voting Is Needed to Combat ‘Disastrously Low’ UK Turnout, Report Argues
Byline Times
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July 10, 2025
Support our mission to provide fearless stories about and outside the media system Packed with exclusive investigations, analysis, and features Keir Starmer’s Government should introduce “Australian-style” compulsory voting to combat the...
Pacific Islands focus: deep sea mining, reproductive injustice and a new breast screen campaign
Croakey Health Media
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July 10, 2025
Introduction by Croakey: World leaders are calling for a moratorium on deep sea mining to prevent devastating and irreversible environmental harm. This week, governments are meeting in Jamaica at the 30th Session of the International Seabed...
Japan risks its reputation in Oceania with Fukushima discharge
Pacific News Service
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A rollcall of Pacific Island nations have very different views on the release of treated radioactive wastewater. By Derek Grossman Japan’s decision last month to begin discharging treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean from its...