Browsing by Subject "deep-sea mining"

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    • 'Aquaman' warns Sundance of perils of deep-sea mining 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, January 22, 2023, on page 3A)
      He is best known as hunky, sea-dwelling superhero “Aquaman,” but actor Jason Momoa brought a stark and sober warning about the perils of deep-sea mining to the Sundance film festival on Friday. The Hawaiian-born A-lister ...

    • Benham Rise: Wealth under the sea 

      Icamina, Paul (Malaya, July 29, 2015, on page A3)
      There is wealth out there, for the taking. But diving is daunting, starting at 15 meters deep. In 2011, the Philippines acquired Benham Rise, a "massive" area east of Luzon. "We have access to resources in an area bigger ...

    • DOST eyes Japanese technology to map Benham Rise 

      Ronda, Rainier Allan (The Philippine Star, May 14, 2017, on page 9)
      Manila, Philippines - The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) may negotiate for an affordable P25-million resource mapping of Benham Rise by a Japanese government deep-sea exploration agency. Carlos Primo David, ...

    • The final frontier: Who owns the oceans and their hidden treasures? 

      Tabary, Zoe (Malaya, December 5, 2018, on page B4-B5)
      Oceans - which scientists say are less understood than the moon or Mars - cover more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface, yet less than 20 percent of their seafloor has been mapped or observed, according to the U.S. ...

    • Offshore mining firms back PBBM climate call 

      Araja, Rio (Manila Standard, May 15, 2023, on page A5)
      A group of deep-sea offshore mining organizations on Sunday backed President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s call to all members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations on the urgent issues on worldwide critical minerals ...

    • Save planet Earth but destroy the ocean? 

      Christiansen, Sabine; Unger, Sebastian (Philippine Daily Inquirer, December 26, 2020, on page A7)
      As recent studies and assessments indicate, the world is still able to change course in the face of this threat, if major pressures—including climate change—are mitigated and marine ecosystems restored. But a new risk is ...

    • UN conference sees blitz of pledges to protect ailing oceans 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Standard, June 29, 2022, on page B2)
      A major UN conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicked off in Lisbon this week with a flurry of promises to expand marine protected areas, ban deep-sea mining, and combat illegal fishing. UN ...

    • Untouched ocean habitats rapidly shrinking - study 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Manila Bulletin, July 28, 2018, on page 1-6)
      Shipping, pollution, and overfishing have reduced areas of "wilderness" to just 13 percent of the world's oceans, a study showed on Friday (July 27), warning that untouched marine habitats could completely vanish within ...

    • What happens in the oceans affects us all 

      Soriano, Zelda DT (Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 29, 2016, on page A17)
      If we are merely looking at the vast expanse of waters from the shores of Thailand, the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia, or living in the landlocked Lao People’s Democratic Republic, we will tend to think that oceans ...