Tag: cook_islands

Columbia and NOAA to Deploy Robot Sailboats for Five-Year Southern Ocean Carbon Study

5 Oct 2026 7:00 a.m. · Source: Columbia University

Columbia and NOAA researchers will use uncrewed surface vehicles to measure how much human-produced CO2 the Southern Ocean absorbs and stores, in a project spanning five years.

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Greenpeace Condemns US-NZ Cook Islands Port Funding as 'Colonialism' for Deep Sea Mining

1 Sep 2026 10:01 p.m. · Source: Greenpeace Aotearoa

Greenpeace Aotearoa criticizes US and NZ co-funding of a strategic port in the Cook Islands, calling it a 'gross act of colonialism' and a move to facilitate deep sea mining in the Pacific, despite regional resistance.

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