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The Seabed Solution

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Later this year, as David Schneider notes in “ Deep-sea Mining Stirs Up Muddy Questions ,” a Canadian firm called the Metals Company (formerly DeepGreen Metals) plans to begin testing a nodule-collecting system comprising a seafloor robotic collector vehicle connected to a mammoth surface support ship.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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In early 2017, in the forest highlands of eastern Guinea, a man I’ll call Jacob began a journey that would take him across five Saharan countries and multiple failed sea crossings. Jacob says he spent somewhere between three and four years trying to migrate from Guinea to Spain. One migrant with no money. What the tech is up against.

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