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The deep-sea mining deadlines have arrived
Here’s what actually happened
 • Luke McMillan
The One Where I Follow the Carbon Money
I’ve been working on a story about mangroves, carbon credits and Indigenous stewardship for nearly a month, and I’m still not ready to publish it.
 • Luke McMillan
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The Deep Brief #49 | 15 August 2026
Your end of week ocean intelligence, built to inform, agitate, and equip you
 • Luke McMillan
The deep-sea mining deadlines have arrived
Here’s what actually happened
 • Luke McMillan
Tonga’s Whale Personhood Proposal, One Year On
I wrote about the plan to make whales legal persons. A year later, I went back to find out what happened.
 • Luke McMillan
The Deep Brief #48 | 1 August 2026
Your end-of-week ocean intelligence, built to inform, agitate, and equip you
 • Luke McMillan

July 2026

Deep sea mining company wins five year contract renewal despite open compliance inquiry
The International Seabed Authority extended NORI’s exploration deal while its investigation into possible non compliance remained unresolved
 • Luke McMillan
The Deep Brief #47 | 18 July 2026
Your end-of-week ocean intelligence, built to inform, agitate, and equip you
 • Luke McMillan
The Deep Brief #46 | 11 July 2026
Your end-of-week ocean intelligence, built to inform, agitate, and equip you
 • Luke McMillan
The Flamingo Revolution
How Albania rewrote its own protection law, fast-tracked a state island to a presidential in-law, and let the machines onto a protected beach before…
 • Luke McMillan
The Deep Brief #45 | 4 July 2026
Your end-of-week ocean intelligence, built to inform, agitate, and equip you
 • Luke McMillan
Ocean Heroes: The Man in the Room Where Ocean Solutions Are Judged
Craig Taylor helps decide which ocean projects the world’s most prestigious environmental prize chooses to back.
 • Luke McMillan
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