In the Depths of the Ocean, a New Contest Between the US and China Emerges

In the depths of the ocean, a new contest between the US and China emerges

Around the Cook Islands, the world's two most powerful countries are exploring the possibility of deep-sea mining for critical minerals

Pacific activists protest deep sea mining as U.S exploration vessel enters port

Cook Islanders holding a banner reading “Don’t Mine the Moana”, have confronted an exploration vessel as it returned to Rarotonga port today, protesting the emerging threat of seabed mining. Four activists in kayaks paddled alongside the Nautilus, which has spent the last three weeks on a U.S. funded research expedition surveying mineral nodule fields around the Cook Islands in partnership with the Cook Islands Government. The Nautilus expeditio…

Cook Islanders confront US-funded vessel over seabed mining threat

COOK Islands activists in kayaks confronted a United States-funded exploration vessel as it returned to port in Rarotonga on Wednesday, holding a banner that read “Don’t Mine the Moana.” The post Cook Islanders confront US-funded vessel over seabed mining threat appeared first on Islands Business.