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Cook Islands Ozone CFC

Cook Islands on track to phase out ozone-depleting chemicals

20-Sep-2022

HCFCs are harmful chemical compounds used in cooling appliances such as refrigeration, air condit
Tonga Department of Environment

SPREP Assists Tonga To Establish Register Of Consultants For Environmental Impact Assessments

14-Sep-2022

Tonga has become the latest country to embrace the registration of Environmental Impact Assessmen
Bismarck Sea

Dumping of mining waste in Bismarck sea would be a threat to PNG coastal communities

13-Sep-2022

An environmental campaigner in Papua New Guinea says the dumping of mining waste in the Bismarck

Deep sea mining Nautilus Minerals

Anger as company gets go ahead to mine on seafloor

13-Sep-2022

Deep Sea mining could begin in the Pacific as early as this month, after regulators decided to al
NORI

NORI, receives ISA recommendation to commence Pilot Nodule collection trials in the Clarion Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean

9-Sep-2022

The Metals Company (Nasdaq: TMC) (the “Company” or “TMC”), an explorer of lower-impact battery me
Cook islands Avarua

Redevelopment plans for Cook Islands wins international awards

8-Sep-2022

Landscape redevelopment plans for Avarua, the main town on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, and the
Deep sea mining

French Polynesia moves towards ban on 'craziness' of seabed mining

7-Sep-2022

French Polynesia has voted a draft opinion for a temporary ban on seabed mining projects.
Panguna Mine

Damage continues to be caused by shutdown mine says Bougainville MP

7-Sep-2022

A Cabinet Minister in the Papua New Guinea autonomous region of Bougainville says damage continue
fukushima wastewater nuclear

As Japan builds nuclear dumping facilities, Pacific groups say 'stop'

5-Sep-2022

Pacific civil society groups are calling on Japan to halt its plans to dump radioactive nuclear w