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A recent deal between China and the Cook Islands has spurred protests in the Islands over controversial deep-sea mining provisions and what some residents perceive as threats to its close ties to New ...

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But it may in future open up the Scandinavian country's waters to deep-sea mining, a practice controversial for its potential impact on vulnerable marine ecosystems. Besides the risk of chemical ...

Cook Islands officials yesterday said they had discussed seabed minerals research with China as the small Pacific island mulls deep-sea mining of its waters. The self-governing country of 17,000 ...

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