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Whipps urges deep-sea mining pause at ISA meeting in Jamaica

By Laurel Marewibuel KOROR, Palau — President Surangel S. Whipps Jr. called for greater protection of the deep ocean and renewed Palau’s push for a moratorium and precautionary pause on deep-sea mining during an address to the International Seabed Authority in Jamaica on July 30. “The deep ocean is our common heritage, not a new […]

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