The world’s first licence to operate a deep sea mine has been granted
Let’s set the scene. Deep, deep down on the sea floor, according to researchers Helen Rosenbaum and Natalie Lowrey (Deep Sea Mining – the Pacific experiment), “ lie thousands of hydrothermal vent formations…like underwater hot springs, spouting black clouds of metal sulphides. The foci of Deep Sea Mining are the deposits laid down over thousands…
Read MoreFugro uninterested in Boskalis takeover
Another share purchase, another takeover denial but when will Boskalis stop buying pieces of Fugro if it doesn’t want to own it? That’s the question analysts are asking after the world’s largest owner of dredging fleet made a second increase in the oil services company’s shares in less than three months, and now owns just…
Read MoreIs the Ebola outbreak coming to an end?
In its latest report, which looked at infection rates up until January 25, it said, “there have been fewer than 100 new confirmed cases reported in a week in the three most-affected countries. This is a significant milestone, and is pretty convincing proof that the effort to slow the spread of Ebola has worked.” The…
Read MoreThe controversial search for MH-370
Malaysia has pulled out one of the vessels used to look for the missing Malaysian Airlines plane, which disappeared from radar shortly after taking off on March 8th 2014 while en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. 239 people were on board at the time but not a single trace of the plane has been…
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