The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
As Papua New Guinea gives go-ahead to a Canadian mining company to dredge its coastal seabed for minerals, critics say environmental assessments have been inadequate, local objections ignored and new species of life could be extinct before they have even been discovered.
Polymetallic nodules found on the deep seafloor (>4000 m water depth) have been recognized as an alternative source for certain metals, when land deposits get exhausted. Spread over millions of square kilometres on the seafloor of all the oceans, these deposits contain as much as 40% of combined metals (Mn …
Kerala Finance Minister T.M. Thomas Isaac informed the Assembly on Thursday that the State government was opposed to deep-sea sand-mining, but would go all out to tap the revenue-generating material from reservoirs in the State. Responding to an intervention during his reply to the debate on the final supplementary demands …
Surajeet Das Gupta / New Delhi December 14, 2009, 0:06 IST Varun Energy Corporation, a group company of steel exporter Varun Industries Limited, has acquired uranium mines in Madagascar, an island nation in the Indian Ocean. Varun Energy is one of the first private Indian companies to acquire rights directly …
There are 4.5 billion tonnes of uranium in sea water, a thousand times more than what is known to exist in uranium mines The way ahead: BARC and the Commissariat a
S M Arun |Thoothukudi, CORAL MINING: GULF OF MANNAR LOSING ISLANDSTHOUGH Gulf of Mannar is said to consist of 21 islands, the elite biosphere reserve has already lost two of its small islands taking the present tally to only 19 islands. The two small islands that submerged in the sea …
S M Arun | ENS FOUR years after mining of corals was stopped in the Gulf of Mannar (GoM), the highly endangered coral reefs in the region are finally showing signs of resurgence, according to research conducted by scholars at the Suganthi Devidason Marine Research Institute (SDMRI), Thoothukudi. The reefs …
energy Nigerians want to own their oil Thousands of workers in Nigeria protested in mid-May the proposed deregulation of the oil sector. The government in February said it would deregulate the downstream oil sector, which deals with refining of crude oil for domestic consumption. It is managed by the state-owned …
The US submission to the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) proposes an agreed outcome for the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in the form of
FOR MUTUAL SUPPORT: Vice-Admiral Vijay Shankar handing over a memento to Vice-Chancellor G. Thiruvasagam during a visit to Bharathiar University in Coimbatore on Friday. COIMBATORE: Vice-Admiral Vijay Shankar, Commander-in-Chief, Andaman and Nicobar Command, has expressed his interest in developing ocean resource mining through satellite remote sensing for better utilisation of …
On Board Sagar Nidhi: It's an acquisition that would make India's deep-sea research scale new heights and the grit of scientists from National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) indicates they are raring to put the Rs 232-crore
Minerals are a valuable natural resource being the vital raw material for infrastructure, capital goods and basic industries. As a major resource for development the extraction and management of minerals has to be integrated into the overall strategy of the country's economic development. The exploitation of minerals has to be …
The uk plans to claim sovereign rights over a million square kilometres of the remote seabed off Antarctica. The move is believed to be a prelude for seeking exploration rights over potential hydrocarbon and mineral deposits around the South Pole. The claim would be in defiance of the spirit of …
WHAT the United States proposes, the rest of the world meekly disposes. The most recent example is its stand on the Law of the Sea treaty of 1982, a wide-ranging document that covers issues like fishing rights, deep seabed mining, oil exploration, marine pollution and scientific research. After turning its …
The law accepts the basic principle that there can be no free lunches in a high risk, capital-intensive venture like deep seabed mining. As a direct fallout, the role of the International Seabed Authority (ISA) and its business arm, the Enterprise, has been drastically scaled down. The original regime for …
