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A Techno-Economic Assessment of Seabed Mining: American Samoa and Global Implications

10 min read

Seabed mining has moved from the fringes of resource speculation into the center of debates about critical minerals, national strategy, and global environmental governance. Proponents frame it as an essential solution to future nickel, cobalt, copper, and manganese supply, while opponents highlight the biological risks, the regulatory uncertainty, and the … [continued]

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Nation-Building or Asset Stranding: What Canada’s Latest Megaprojects Tell Us

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Canada’s second tranche of Major Projects Office investments arrives with a familiar mixture of ambition and contradiction. Ottawa has presented it as another step in a nation-building program that spans critical minerals, northern electrification, reconciliation, and export capacity. On the surface that sounds like a strategy that lines up with … [continued]

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Green clues: Crime-busters turn to moss to help solve crimes 

5 min read

By Eric Freedman

Tiny pieces of moss can be crime-busters, says a study examining how law enforcement agencies, forensic teams and botanists have used moss to solve murders, track missing people, calculate how long ago someone died and – in a notorious Mason County case – try to locate the body of a baby murdered by her father.

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