With deep-sea mining, the Pacific Islands are caught between money and the environment

5:00am PDT - July 3rd, 2021    tonga - The Next Web

While most Pacific islands have escaped the worst of COVID-19, a cornerstone of their economies, tourism, has taken a big hit. By June 2020, visitor arrivals in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu had completely ceased, as borders were closed and even internal tra…