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France 24
4 days ago
- Science
- France 24
Race to the bottom? The dangers of deep sea mining
Environment 44:44 Overheated and overfished, an sos for oceans under duress sent from a summit in Nice… but try telling that to those who advocate deep sea drilling for precious a world hungry for the minerals that power our batteries and connect our computers, the United States but also China, India, Japan, Norway and more are seriously studying whether science fiction can become reality. We'lll ask about the actual feasibility of deep sea the competing narratives at play, what with the US boycotting the United Nations Oceans Conference in Nice… and a paltry 32 nations so far ratifying the UN's High Seas Treaty. How to protect the two-thirds of our planet's surface that belong to both everyone and no one? On that score, no need to drill when you hit rock bottom. Even areas protected on paper remain vulnerable to large fishing trawlers that literally rake the seabed, killing both fish and plant life essential for our planet. What to do before it's too late? Produced by François Picard, Andrew Hilliar, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip.
France 24
01-05-2025
- Politics
- France 24
India-Pakistan: How to break cycle of tensions over Kashmir?
India blaming Pakistan for Kashmir's worst terror attack in years… the killing of 26 tourists with non-Muslims singled out and murdered in front of loved ones. Islamabad denies… Islamabad which blamed Delhi for the March terror attack on a train in Baluchistan. There too, 26 killed… the matching tolls fueling speculation and conspiracy theories. What did happen? And how to break the cycle of repeated tensions over Kashmir, a region carved up at independence from Britain in 1947 and whose borders remain disputed to this day. How far could it go this time? India suspending a vital 1960 treaty that manages water use between the two neighbors, a treaty that held through three subsequent wars. Why is this time different? Then there's Kashmir itself, which on the Indian side lost its partial autonomy in 2019. What's changed inside the Muslim majority region since? And what's changed on the Pakistani side after what had been a period of relative détente? Is this really a fight orchestrated by respective capitals? Produced by François Picard, Rebecca Gnignati, Juliette Laffont, Ilayda Habip.
