The United Nations International Seabed Authority has published its first plan for managing the extraction of so-called “nodules” – small mineral-rich rocks – from the seabed.
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‘Meteor hunters’ are out in force as collectors offer large sums
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Cyprus on Wednesday signed an agreement with French energy major Total to conduct exploratory drilling for gas and oil in two blocks off its southern shore. Cyprus is currently also negotiating a massive bailout from the EU.
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In 2030 over 1 billion Chinese will be living in cities. This is agenda 21 stuff come true.
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another attempt is made, but so far none of the preceding initiatives came very far. Backed by influential investors, a Washington company intends, within a decade or so, to have an unmanned robotic mining mission to the asteroid belt.
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The killing continues on Corsica. Ever since being added to France in the days of Napoleon, this island has rather been reluctant to obey commands coming from Paris. The Corsican Mafia, the Unione Corse, is far more secretive than the Mafia and has friends in high places.
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The metro in the Portuguese capital ground to a halt for several hours on Thursday morning as workers staged an anti-austerity strike.
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Although the premier represents an autonomous island of just 57,000 people, within the last couple of months he has met with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and representatives from the Chinese government.
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Four-month trials of the rebate scheme will run in five areas: Arnhem-Nijmegen, Roermond- Maastricht, greater Amsterdam, Overijssel and Gelderland, the paper says, quoting trade publication OV magazine.
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But at a cost of over 140,000 euros just to apply it is no wonder the requests were largely made by companies or organisations.
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