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The Metals Company contracts CSIRO-led consortium to develop environmental monitoring and management plan for deep-sea nodule collection

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The company through its subsidiaries holds exploration and commercial rights to three polymetallic nodule contract areas in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean regulated by the International Seabed Authority and sponsored by the governments of Nauru, Kiribati and the Kingdom of Tonga. Deep sea mining remains controversial.

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IEEE Humanitarian Program Sees Record Growth

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International Telecommunication Union secretary-general. The committee also for the first time awarded funding for projects in Fiji and Spain. Speakers included 2021 IEEE President Susan “Kathy” Land ; Paola Vega Castillo , Costa Rica’s minister of science, technology, and telecommunications; and Houlin Zhao , the U.N.

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